G-ForSE | Global Forum for Sports and the Environment

2014.05.05 Monday 14:35

Sports Can Help Roll Back Climate Change!

Category : Sports Events and the Environment

21 April 2014- I don’t want to be part of the first generation to hand down a degraded quality of life to our children. The relentless surge of climatic change threatens life as we know it. Polar ice caps and glaciers keep melting at an alarming rate flooding the oceans.

2014.05.05 Monday 14:30

Dikembe Mutombo Assists NBA and Sprint’s Green Week Initiative

Category : Sports Goods and the Environment

If you’ve watched NBA programming or attended games this week you may have noticed a lot of green apparel worn by players and even a green basketball patch logo on some of the team’s courts.

2014.04.17 Thursday 13:03

Top doctor backs garden gym idea

Category : Sports Facilities and the Environment

3 April 2014--One of the UK's top doctors says an accumulating body of evidence supports a link between urban green space and benefits to human wellbeing.

2014.04.17 Thursday 12:57

NASCAR kicks off annual Race to Green initiative

Category : Sports Events and the Environment

March 28, 2014--Celebrating the sport's commitment to protecting and preserving the environment, NASCAR today officially kicked off its second annual NASCAR Race to Green initiative at Martinsville Speedway. NASCAR is sports' sustainability leader and this effort is intended to build awareness around the programs the sanctioning body, industry, and a wide range of partners have in place to help reduce the sport's carbon footprint.

2014.04.02 Wednesday 15:44

NRDC Releases Guide to Composting at Sports Venues

Category : Sports Facilities and the Environment

March 25, 2014--According to the U.S. EPA, “More food [waste] reaches landfills and incinerators than any other single material in municipal solid waste….In 2011 alone, more than 36 million tons of food waste was generated, with only four percent diverted from landfills and incinerators for composting.”