The sports world has been greening itself since at least 2004, with LEED certified venues, zero waste games and eco-athletes becoming the rule. Despite this, most fans have no idea about any of this. GreenSportsPod exists to build awareness of Green-Spo

Discusses His New Environmentally-Themed Children's Book, ‘Binky Bandit'

Author of 'The New Climate War' Discusses How Athletes Can Spark #ClimateComeback

Beijing Olympics, Super Bowl LVI From a Green-Sports Perspective

A joint interview between the editors of The Sustainability Report and GreenSportsBlog

On How Sports, Athletes Can Play Role in Climate Fight

Bringing Climate into the Sport-For-Good Conversation

Part of Our Occasional ‘Sports & Carbon' Series

Helping Athletes Make a Difference on Social Issues, Including Environment

Using Sports to Build Support For Ocean Protection

Uses her platform to advocate for clean, healthy oceans and climate action

How Their New Ballpark Can Improve Environment, Enhance Racial & Climate Justice

Sustainability consultant on how sports teams and athletes can make a difference

Maggie discusses sports' role in climate fight; Kevin talks about how to bridge partisan divide

Mario Molina talks about how and how The Outdoor State, 50 million snowboarders, skiers, trail runners and climbers can impact the 2020 election

Looks to Tackle Systemic Oppression with Innovative Mixed-Use Development in Hometown of Harrisburg, PA

Brazel talks Stature Clothing, her sustainable performance apparel startup; Blaustein shares his “Green Journey”

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Melissa Kalicin combined two lifelong passions — for sailing and the environment — with an adventurous entrepreneurial spirit to launch Oceanum Vela. The startup, which Kalicin runs from her houseboat in Kittery, ME, takes used sails from iconic racing boats that were destined for the landfill and repurposes them into handbags and other products.

Dr. Maddy Orr is the founder and co-director of The Sport Ecology Group, an innovative nonprofit that makes the growing amount of sport-sustainability academic research digestible by sport-sustainability professionals. She is also a professor of sport management at SUNY Cortland. Maddy specializes in climate vulnerability research and has authored over a dozen studies on climate vulnerability in the sport sector, and adaptation measures that can be taken by sport participants and sport managers.

Dr. Allen Hershkowitz is the Godfather of the Green-Sports movement. Over the past 15+ years, Hershkowitz has helped sports teams, leagues and governing bodies make real reductions in their environmental impacts. In the inaugural GreenSportsPod episode, Hershkowitz shares the history of the Green-Sports movement and his part in it, from his work with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2004 to his current role as Environmental Science Advisor to the New York Yankees.