Funny that "Amazon Arena", "Alexa Arena", and "Prime Pavilion" would all be pretty decent names.

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Plus I feel like the vast majority can agree making jokes about crack isn’t awesome.

3- The Greenhouse. You will pledge allegiance to the climate and you will like it. Amazon buys naming rights to KeyArena, will call it Climate Pledge Arena The arena, home to the city’s incoming NHL franchise and WNBA's Storm, will be powered 100% by renewable electricity and seek to achieve a zero carbon footprint. I know it only happened on Tuesday, but still, damn cool coincidence. JavaScript is disabled. 133k members in the SeattleWA community. 1- Prime Impact Arena. KeyArena was originally built for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, according to the Seattle Mayor’s office. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts.

Needling reporters later confirmed that while the new arena name was to be determined, the employee who suggested ‘Key A-Greena’ would be forever enshrined in the building’s concrete foundation. Climate Pledge Arena will be home to the WNBA’s Seattle Storm as well as Seattle’s new National Hockey League franchise, which will play its inaugural season in 2021. Amazon has secured the naming rights to Seattle’s KeyArena, which will henceforth be known as Climate Pledge Arena in honor of the ecommerce platform’s 2019 pledge to achieve net-zero operations by 2040. DISCUSSION. This place is for you. 6.9k. I like The Locker a lot.

In 2005, Seattle City Light, the city’s power utility company, became the first electric utility company in the country to achieve a net-zero carbon footprint. 13 [Chris Daniels, KING 5] - "BREAKING: Amazon secures naming rights for new Seattle Arena. I’d much rather go with the Deep or the Abyss though. At the time, a group calling itself Amazon Employees for Climate Justice called the pledge a “huge win,” but they also said it—and Amazon’s actions to that point—were not enough. Or hell, just borrow the Grants Pass city slogan: “It’s the Climate!” When I’m done with this planet, the only sustainable resource left will be the steady supply of desperate human labor crawling over each other for the chance to suckle at my benevolent teat.”. Filter by flair. Join Adweek for Commerce Week, a live virtual summit on Nov. 9-12, to explore the rapid transformation of the commerce landscape, and what's next. Missed opportunity to call it the Corona-Dome, Pikes Place Fair Trade No Plastic Save the Whales Market. Sounds waaay cooler! What, was Empty Corporate Virtue Signalling Gesture Arena already taken? Register now. Inside, the arena will use reclaimed rainwater to make ice, which the release called “the greenest ice in the NHL.” Climate Pledge Arena will also use compostable containers and a minimum of 95% of waste will be diverted from landfills “on a weight basis.”.

The arena is aiming to be zero-carbon.

Amazon buys naming rights to KeyArena, will call it Climate Pledge Arena.

share. Amazon proudly emits 51 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year– more than the country of Norway.

The Climate Pledge Arena opening is still set for fall 2021, as a brief shutdown in construction has not affected the overall schedule–but a potential realignment of the NHL schedule might delay the debut of the Seattle Kraken.. All in all, the COVID-19 pandemic caused delays on most new stadium and arena projects earlier this year, but with many states moving to deem construction … Now everyone has misunderstood our intent,” said Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos.

And there's been 2 more after this one... As if we needed any more murders right now. Or even that SAME IDEA could still be conveyed with a better name. (NHL Seattle Image) A certain Muppet once told us it’s not easy being green. Financial services company KeyCorp bought the naming rights in 1995. 33. “We must also consider: Which parts of our supply chain aren’t included when Amazon reports our emissions? Calling someone a crack head is technically a sler one that has been primarily used toward the African American community. Not sure if those are specific enough.. Like The Abyss, it plays on the Kraken lore, and it reflects the fact that the arena is super deep underground hahah. Just feels like as a new community we should be better than making jokes about that. “As long as Amazon uses its power to help oil and gas companies discover and extract more fossil fuel, donates to climate-denying politicians and think tanks, and enables the oppression of climate refugees, employees will keep raising our voices,” the group said in a statement. I dig both of those. Because we're more classy than that. All submissions must be directly related to the Seattle Kraken. I think The Locker is better though. It could frankly be a lot worse, and we at Amazon won’t stand for enormous neon libel from our own employees.”.

Not sure we all agree the name sucks, but okay, the Abyss is a nice nickname. Because we all agree that climate pledge arena absolutely sucks, can we use the Abyss as a nickname for the arena? I know it's been said a lot, but the joke really just writes itself: "Guaranteed Rate Field, where interest is at an all time low". “Oh no, my sweet little lambs, when we said we were making a ‘climate pledge’ we never said that statement would be pro-environment. The most disappointing part is that once they got away from Amazon (or ANY Corporate Name), THAT’s what they settled on. Are you fucking kidding me? Amazon said events will be fully net zero carbon thanks to forestry projects in partnership with organizations like The Nature Conservancy. Its not the Krak House, its the Krak Home.

Go ahead, pray to your feeble little God: Amazon is offering two-day express shipping to climate change-induced hell.

By using our Services or clicking I agree, you agree to our use of cookies. 31 comments. Nautical theme and the arena is underground.
It’s like, one of the smallest countries! Truly a terrible name. Nautical theme and the arena is underground. The venue, which is currently undergoing redevelopment, will be the “first net zero carbon certified arena,” according to Amazon. Climate Pledge Arena will be home to the Seattle Storm WNBA team as well as Seattle’s new NHL franchise. 2- Alexa, tell me about Climate Awareness Arena, Or hell, just borrow the Grants Pass city slogan: “It’s the Climate!”. save hide report. “Instead of naming it after Amazon, we’re calling it Climate Pledge Arena as a regular reminder of the importance of fighting climate change,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a statement. Whoever is doing the naming is engaged in galaxy-brain, next-level memeing.

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Woulda been a solid 5/10 if it was left as a comment on any of the other dozen posts covering this, This is what happens when you get a bunch of corporate kool-aid chuggers in a room together, you get names like "climate pledge arena". The Needling's intrepid and completely unbiased reporters provide Native Seattle-area residents, newcomers, California carpetbaggers and people born here sometime in the last century earnestly inauthentic analysis of local news and culture. With a preference for abyss I think. Climate Pledge Arena will be home to the WNBA’s Seattle Storm as well as Seattle’s new National Hockey League franchise, which will play its inaugural season in 2021. The Trench? Do you know how small Norway is? ...as opposed to every other professional sports venue? Someone in another thread nicknamed it The Clip but I like Klip as a throwback to the Key. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Climate Pledge Arena.

What other deep ocean names could work? And if i, a dude who is super stoned at the end of the night can see that then other people will see that and no matter what you think of that, it will bring controversy that we dont need, More posts from the SeattleKraken community.


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