Sports stadiums may be ideal for experimenting with sustainable food service, recycling, and composting programs. Seattle’s Lumen Field is committed to minimizing its environmental impact. It extends that promise to fans who attend games and concerts, diverting an average of 90% of waste at the venue from landfills. Imagine if every local restaurant could promise the same results. Lumen Field hosts hundreds […]
Since it started measuring waste diversion from landfills in 2006, when it recycled only 4.6% of materials collected, Seattle’s Lumen Field has increased its recycling, composting, and donations efforts to avoid sending 90% of the waste generated by fans to the dump. Meet Christy Briggs, Logistics and Sustainability Manager at First & Goal Incorporated, who leads Lumen Field’s recycling and […]
World Athletics president Sebastian Coe at a press conference at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Image credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY By Anders Lorenzen Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics has warned that in the wake of the climate crisis athletics face an uncertain future and the sport needs to adapt. He explained that already now athletes are suffering […]
A British athlete in a mountain bike event during the 2023 Cycling World Championship. Photo credit: SWPix. By Anders Lorenzen Anyone who tuned in to the world championship in cycling currently underway in Glasgow was greeted with one of the world’s largest culprits of the climate crisis. Last year, Royal Dutch Shell, the fossil fuel giant, was shamefully appointed as […]
climate change By Anders Lorenzen In our obituary of the tragic passing of the professional cyclist Gino Mäder, we pointed out he was a passionate and dedicated environmentalist seeking to raise awareness about environmental destruction and climate change through his sport. The Basque cyclist Pello Bilbao who rode with Mäder on the Bahrain Victorius cycling team is honouring his former […]
Gino Mäder. Photo credit: Nicola, Wikimedia Commons, CC-by-sa 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen When the charismatic and much-loved road-racing cyclist Gino Mäder tragically passed away earlier this month after a horrible crash on the descent during a dangerous stage in the stage race Tour de Suisse in his homeland of Switzerland much of the post-debate will […]