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 »

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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From the London 2012 Blog – by James Cracknell

On the surface, ‘sustainability’ might not appear to be the most interesting area to be involved with when you think about the 2012 Games. So why have I joined as a Sustainability Ambassador? Well, when you consider it deals with issues on both a global ecological scale and a human level it is by far the most far-reaching.

The Games are like an iceberg, with only one tenth visible above the surface – and that tenth is the competition. Underneath is everything that not only makes the Games run smoothly but also maintains the credibility of the Olympic and Paralympic brands. More importantly, what’s ‘underneath’ is what gets left after – the positive outcomes for the host country and city. Read the rest of this entry »

From the London 2012 Blog – by David Stubbs, Head of Environment and Sustainability at 2012

Sustainability will be central to the Games Food Strategy, which we plan to publish later this year. We are currently discussing with a range of experts across the food and hospitality industry about issues. Read the rest of this entry »