Green Sports

World Athletics’ Champions for a Better World scheme empowers athletes like never before How can structures in sport be changed for athletes to make their mark in efforts to tackling climate change? As issues like environmental…
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Professional sports have adopted more eco-friendly practices to reduce the footprint of their daily operations and gameday experiences. While many teams and leagues have made strides in increasing their sustainability policies, they…
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Whether a sport takes place on land, water, indoors or outdoors, it generates an impact on its environment. A new Sports for Nature report, published by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), analyses sports’ impact and dependency on…
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Just like in other industries, the call among athletes, sports associations and society at large to make sporting events and equipment more sustainable has become louder. In this episode of the Seek Together podcast, we’re joined by Bob…
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Hours before the USC vs. Washington State football game kicked off, tailgaters in McCarthy Quad could look around the many cardinal and gold tents to find the Waste-Ed Wagon nearby, helping them recycle. USC’s Zero Waste Auditors, Nick…
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Given that more than 45% of CO2 emissions, a key contributor to global climate change, are due to electricity and heat production, reducing the carbon footprint is one of the most effective ways to reduce global warming. To help lessen…
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY LIZ SPANGLER Aly Criscuolo was fielding so many emails and calls from college students about her job that she organized weekly office hours so that the inquiries wouldn’t interfere with her day job. The…
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MINNEAPOLIS — Dozens of kids in the Twin Cities are leading the way in the fight against climate change. And they’re drawing inspiration from a hometown athlete on how to make the love of sports an avenue for change. Leading a team on…
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Just like the marching band and CAM the Ram, Colorado State University’s Zero Waste Team is a fixture at home football games. The student team, largely made up of volunteers, isn’t hard to miss, thanks to its enthusiasm for sports…
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By Dan Fisher, Yahoo Sports Today’s guest columnist is Dan Fisher, president and CEO-elect of Ball Corporation. Sports marketing as we traditionally know it has changed. Brands and companies now look beyond viewing sports industry…
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Yet, members of the nonprofit Green Sports Alliance, which pulls from all professional sports, hope that the high profile of the Super Bowl helps push environmentally-friendly action in football and beyond. “Sports have an enormous…
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By UNC Charlotte Facilities Management Facilities Management employees work all across campus and are dependent upon fleet vehicles to commute to jobs and transport tools and materials. Because of this need, FM currently has 280…
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