Some new landscaping features include yellow tabebuia trees blooming near Interstate 95 and new median pavers and palm trees on Northwest 27th Ave by Dolphin Stadium. Volunteer Adopt-a-Street groups have accelerated their efforts picking up cigarette butts and litter around Fort Lauderdale airport. Students in Deerfield Beach are planting 1,500 native South Florida seedlings donated by the National Football League.

‘’We need to put on our best face. A lot of major companies are coming to town,’’ says Alyce Robertson, who?EUR??,,????'???s in charge of the county’s Super Bowl Clean Up and Green Up program (she works on city beautification projects year-round).

Not all projects are solely for the Super Bowl, such as new palm trees on Interstate 395, which is also for the Performing Arts Center. Yet completing these features for Sunday, Feb. 4 is important to the county.

Additionally the NFL has been working since last summer to reduce its carbon footprint. The NFL?EUR??,,????'???s ‘’green energy’’ program aims to source the game with renewable energy. The NFL has also helped plant trees to absorb the extra carbon emitted by the heavy transportation. (It aims for a ?EUR??,,????'??carbon neutral?EUR??,,????'?? result to negate all the extra carbon emitted, though researchers showed the results to only be about 25 percent over the lifetime of the trees). The NFL has worked with ecology groups to help plant seedlings, saplings, and native trees.

The tree-plantings coincide with Florida?EUR??,,????'???s efforts to reconstruct the tree canopy after the devastation caused by hurricanes over the last 15 years.

Source: Miami Herald