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Obama is going to Copenhagen to push Chicago’s Olympic bid this week 0
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Tilting at, rather than installing, windmills

Obama’s absurd Olympic boosterism 2
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago As healthcare reform shipwrecks and climate legislation lurches toward a similar fate, President Obama is ... preparing to jet to Copenhagen to shill for Chicago as 2016 Olympic site? Really?
Sports section

Jackson goes for gold 0
Posted 1 month, 4 weeks ago
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will be in Chicago Friday to talk about greening the business of sports ... oh, and maybe boost the Windy City's bid for the 2016 summer Olympics.
Ambition and trouble collide

Vancouver’s Olympic village aims for green, runs into problems 4
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
The athletes’ village is the centerpiece of efforts to green the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. Now being constructed on an 80-acre rehabbed brownfield near downtown, the village is intended to be a whole new kind of sustainable neighborhood. The development has impressive green features, but some serious problems too.
Recycle & Flow

Canadian eco-rap and other youth offerings in Vancouver 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Climate activist Thomas Kineshanko’s musing on jet travel was one of several back-to-earth moments provided by the youngest speakers at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment.
From ‘the wave’ to a groundswell

Enlisting sports fans in the green movement begins by understanding them 2
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Talk of “harnessing” the passion of sports showed up everywhere at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment, but one marketer moved past the cliché and made a case that athletes are in a great position to promote environmentally friendly behavior.
How about water hockey?

Canadian activist warns warming could cripple winter sports 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
David Suzuki describes two “iconic Canadian images” already endangered by climate change -- polar bears and backyard skating rinks, like the one on which a young Wayne Gretzky learned to skate.
Hot air emissions

A roundup of notable speeches from the Sport and Environment Conference 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
There was some good stuff along with the cheerleading on day one at the World Conference on Sport and the Environment.
How much CO2 does a Zamboni emit?

Vancouver Olympics Committee shopping carbon offset plan 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Vancouver wants make the 2010 Winter Games carbon neutral, but the plan it released Monday counts on help from the private sector to make it happen.
Greening the games

Vancouver showcases preparations for 2010 Winter Olympics 0
Posted 7 months, 1 week ago
Eleven months from the opening ceremonies, Olympics buzz is fairly palpable, with games-related ads on the airwaves, heaps of Olympics gear for sale in souvenir shops, and construction cranes dotting the skyline.
Canadian athletes urge Olympic committee to fulfill eco-promises 8
Posted 9 months ago
NASA: China’s pollution control efforts improved air quality during the Olympics 2
Posted 10 months ago
Sochi So Far

Some venues relocated to minimize eco-impact of Russia’s 2014 Olympics 0
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
License and Sensibility

Beijing extends traffic-control measures to keep smog away 1
Posted 1 year, 1 month ago
Was It All Just a Game to You?

Beijing officials consider extending some clean-air measures beyond Olympics 3
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Athletes play down pollution concerns, Beijing gives in to weather 1
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Yao Ming to serve as UNEP ‘environmental champion’ 1
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
A purely anecdotal, non-athlete’s perspective of the air quality in Beijing 0
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago
Obama clean-energy ad will air during Olympics coverage 3
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago
Smog settles on Beijing for opening ceremony 0
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago