Manchester City Sports Stadium

This seems to me to be the way to do it: when building something make it as self-reliant as possible. Manchester City's footbal club just got permission from the city of Manchester City to build a giant wind turbine to power their stadium. I like the idea of wind-power but those turbines are such an eyesore. At least this turnbine is relagated to another eyesore--the stadium itself (even if it is built by one of my favorite architects, Norman Foster). But the basic concept is sound--make your new construction as self-reliant as possible, much as Norman Foster did with the cooling and heating systems that he built into the German Reichstag in Berlin.