That brand new Colorado-grown turf in Target Field will be watered with good old-fashioned recycled Minnesota rain water, the Minnesota Twins announced Tuesday.

The Twins and one of their newest sponsors, Minneapolis-based Pentair Inc., said that the team’s new ballpark in downtown Minneapolis will be the first major sports facility anywhere to be irrigated and washed down with recycled rain water.

The recycling system, designed and installed by Pentair, will collect water from Target Field’s seven acres and drain it into a 100,000-gallon cistern buried below the field. There the water will be disinfected and treated.
» Read more: Target Field sets ‘environmental standard in sports’

Reds outfielder Chris Dickerson has gone green.

Besides playing Major League Baseball, promoting environmental awareness is his favorite pastime.

Dickerson, 27, envisions using alternative sources of energy at Great American Ball Park, as well as “getting Little Leagues to use solar power and eventually maybe even wind energy to power not only the stadium lights but the scoreboards.”

» Read more: Chris Dickerson has Gone Green

Former NBA MVP Steve Nash is known for many things: his Canadian citizenship, his diminutive stature for a basketball player (6’3 on his toes), even his now-shortened locks. But never has the term “trash talk” been associated with him—until now.

» Read more: Steve Nash’s Trashy Kicks

Declan Mullin likes to say that at Great American Ball Park, not just the grass is green. That’s because as vice president of ballpark operations, Mullin has worked to make the franchise one of the most environmentally friendly in Major League Baseball.

» Read more: Great American Ballpark Green Efforts