Eco soccer team has vegan ambition

NAILSWORTH, England - Soccer club Forest Green Rovers, run by a former nomad turned renewable energy entrepreneur, are proudly boasting their credentials as a pioneer in environmental sustainability.

As at every football ground in the country, chips, pies and beer are on offer at New Lawn, their 5,000-capacity, eco-friendly ground in Nailsworth, a 6,000-strong town in the picturesque rolling Cotswold Hills of Gloucestershire, southwest England.

But there are no hot dogsmeat is banned and all the cuisine is vegan. The pitch is kept lush with captured rainwater, the paint contains no chemicals and 20 percent of the energy comes from solar panels on the roofs of the stands.