Episode 2

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2nd Apr 2020

Dr. Maddy Orr, founder of Sport Ecology Group, on what if sports treats climate change as it’s treating coronavirus

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.

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Green Sports Pod
Green Sports Pod highlights the successes, challenges, and opportunities to green the games we love to watch and play, and give you the chance to hear from the athletes who are taking positive environmental actions.
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-Sports and, by so doing, make good on the ability for sport, as Nelson Mandela once said, “to change the world” when it comes to climate change and other environmental calamities.

Listeners will learn about the Green-Sports movement’s successes, challenges and opportunities through our interviews with the people who green the games we love to play and watch, and the athletes who are taking positive environmental actions.

Host Lew Blaustein has built GreenSportsBlog into the source for news and commentary at the intersection of Green & Sports. He also is a sustainability-focused marketing and communications consultant, helping companies and non-profits create, tell and sell their green stories.

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