Last week, the global effort to address climate change through sustainability gained a valuable partner that will focus on promoting environmental, economic and social change through sports. On Nov. 16, 48 of the most important and well-known sports leagues, governing bodies and teams met in Lausanne, Switzerland. Less than a month later, Sport and Sustainability […]
This story was written by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog. The intersection of Green + Sports is not only getting more crowded, it’s gaining influence. The latter was on display last week as the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy hosted 70+ leaders of the […]
At this year’s Olympic Games, skeet shooter Kim Rhode will be aiming to make history. Again. In 2012 in London, she became the first American athlete to medal in five consecutive Olympics in an individual sport. In Rio, she’ll be shooting for six out of six. Rhode will be focused on firing her shotgun at […]
This interview was conducted by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog. The failure of Brazilian and Rio authorities to live up to the promises made in their bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics to suitably clean the unhealthy, polluted, potentially dangerous-to-human bodies of water that will host […]
This interview was conducted by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog. Appalachia has, over many decades, suffered massive and debilitating economic decline due primarily to the loss of manufacturing jobs and experienced severe environmental degradation, largely from coal mining and “fracking” for natural gas. So it might surprise […]
