Gordon Rugby Football Club is Carbon NeutralThe original Gordon Rugby Football Club was founded in 1927 on Sydney's North Shore, playing in the Metropolitan Junior Competitions and its home games on Roseville Chase Oval. The club was disbanded in 1930 and the following year, many of its players transferred to the newly formed Roseville Junior Rugby Union Football Club, whose home ground was Chatswood Oval. In the 1935 season, the club won the Metropolitan Junior Club Championship, the Kentwell Cup and its second grade, the Bourke Cup.Following its success the club was admitted to the Grade Competition in 1936 and changed its name to the Gordon District Rugby Union Football Club. First grade premierships were achieved in 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1976, 1993, 1995 and 1998. Over the years, the lower grade sides have played prominently at or near the top of the competition tables with Gordon winning the Club Championship 13 times. Today, the club's attractive style of play is renowned for its dedication to the promotion of the game at all levels, its tremendous club spirit, its enthusiastic supporters and an excellent and supportive administration. Under the banner of Gordon Rugby, the Gordon Rugby Football Club Ltd currently fields five grade and four colts sides, plus reserves and representative junior sides from village clubs Chatswood, Hornsby, Hunters Hill, Killara-West Pymble, Lane Cove, Lindfield, Roseville, St Ives, Wahroonga, and even Mosman, Norths and Drummoyne! The rugby club has a strong association with the licensed club ‘Gordon Social & Recreation Club’, which is located in the Mandarin Centre immediately adjacent to Chatswood Oval. 
Climate Change StrategyThe Gordon Rugby Football Club is now Australia’s first NoCO2 certfied, carbon neutral rugby club! This makes Gordon the first rugby club in Australia to offer its players, members and supporters the opportunity to enjoy 'green rugby', and to help offset greenhouse emissions whilst battling it out on the field.Gordon Rugby has offset its carbon emissions with a number of initiatives. The club started by addressing its electricity consumption at head office and Chatswood oval (including the emissions produced by the oval’s lighting during evening training sessions and home games). The assessment included calculating emissions produced by waste from operating the office and oval; embodied energy of the club’s computers; and the carbon emissions from transportation – both the team bus and players’ vehicles. Once calculated, Gordon Rugby offset all emissions by investing in energy efficiency initiatives and renewable energy projects.
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