Project Blue Sky is a new initiative by a group of Canadian athletes supported by the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Its a place where you can connect with your favourite athletes, challenge your friends, tell your story and track your carbon reductions by logging the kilometres you walk, cycle, or ride on public transit.

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An oldie but goodie, posted from Sports Illustrated, 3/12/2007. Written by Alexander Wolff.

As global warming changes the planet, it is changing the sports world. To counter the looming environmental crisis, surprising and innovative ideas are already helping sports adapt

The next time a ball game gets rained out during the September stretch run, you can curse the momentary worthlessness of those tickets in your pocket. Or you can wonder why it got rained out–and ask yourself why practice had to be called off last summer on a day when there wasn’t a cloud in the sky; and why that Gulf Coast wharf where you used to reel in mackerel and flounder no longer exists; and why it’s been more than one winter since you pulled those titanium skis out of the garage. Read the rest of this entry »