With Super Bowl 50 right around the corner, one thing that the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee is focusing on for this monumental event is sustainability. The host committee has partnered with in/PACT and Citizen Group to create the “Play Your Part” campaign to help maximize sustainability and make Super Bowl 50 a “Net Positive” […]
This article is written by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog. While we don’t know if Super Bowl 50 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara will be the greatest ever, we do know that the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee (dang, that’s a mouthful!) promised that game […]
The North Face has developed and announced the Moon Parka, which is their first jacket that does not depend on petroleum to be made. Instead, the jacket is constructed from proteins created through a microbial fermentation process. To do this an interesting process is required. North Face teamed up with Spiber and Goldwin to develop […]
Shell, a multinational oil and gas company, and Akon, a world-famous rapper and music-producer, are not necessarily seen to have an awful lot in common. However, they have teamed up with Pavegen– a UK-based technology start-up- to unveil a new, state-of-the-art solar and footfall powered soccer pitch at a school in Lagos, Nigeria. The pitch […]
This article is written by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog. GreenSportsBlog has written a number of times about Forest Green Rovers, a 5th tier English football (soccer) club. Why? Because FGR is undoubtedly the “Greenest Team in Sports.” But what do their fans, as well as […]
