From the London 2012 Blog – by Aimee Felus, Community Engagement Manager, Thames21

Much has been made of the regeneration that the 2012 Games are bringing to East London. The ever-changing skyline of Stratford is proof that at least physically, London is changing as a result of hosting the Games.
However, as the Community Engagement Manager of the new Lea River Park (a soon-to-be green corridor, located in the lower Lea Valley just south of the Olympic Park), I’m interested in the further-reaching changes that could happen around here – the huge potential benefits that the Games could bring to local communities and waterways in the wider East London area.

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NEWS RELEASE, VANCOUVER, BC

New organization enables Metro Vancouverites to fight homelessness while hosting Olympic visitors -

Home For The Games, a new non-profit organization providing a solution to the 2010 Winter Games accommodation shortage while also helping solve homelessness, officially launched today. Through homeforthegames.com, Metro Vancouverites get a chance to host Games visitors from around the world, with proceeds going to charities tackling homelessness.

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Written for The New Economy by Matt Dolf and Leigh Pezzicara, AISTS

Recognizing the effect that climate change has on sports, especially in the winter sports industry, it is imperative for sport to address its own impact and provide solutions to combat these issues. This provides a great opportunity for the sports industry – to not only protect the environment necessary to sustain it, but to positively influence a larger audience than most organisations have the capability to reach. A sustainable sports effort is a natural fit between sport’s embodied values such as health, respect, inclusion and fair play, and the values linked to incorporating responsible environmental, social and governance practices.
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