Toronto Star: Peter Gorrie

A slip of the tongue told the story.

Canadian Football League commissioner Mark Cohon referred to the league’s annual championship as the “Green Cup” before quickly correcting himself. The real title is, of course, the Grey Cup, scheduled to be held in Toronto Nov. 25.

This year the aim is to make the big game glow as green as the artificial turf at Rogers Centre.

The league has found sponsors for three steps to make Canada’s largest single-day sporting event more environmentally benign.

Carbon dioxide emissions associated with the event – including team travel, energy consumption and use of paper – will be offset through a Vancouver reforestation project run by Toronto-based Zerofootprint. Planting trees, which store carbon, is a controversial method of making up for greenhouse gas emissions. Grey Cup-related emissions are expected to total close to 300 tonnes.

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