The Green Sports Alliance is a non-profit organization with a mission to help sports teams, venues and leagues enhance their environmental performance. Alliance members represent 13 sports leagues and over 90 sports venues and teams - a collaboration that is unprecedented.
The Green Sports Alliance brings sports organizations and environmental experts together in an effort to improve the environmental performance of sports facilities and operations.
Since January of 2010, the Alliance has brought together venue operators, sports team executives and environmental scientists to exchange information about better practices and develop cost-competitive and innovative solutions to their environmental challenges. The information gathered from this collaboration is available to Alliance members in order that they gain a better understanding of how sporting events can be performed in an environmentally sensitive manner.
The Green Sports Alliance was conceived and founded by Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Inaugural members and partners of the Alliance are the Seattle Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers, Seattle Sounders FC, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Storm, Vancouver Canucks, the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, and Milepost Consulting. Technical assistance and organizational support has been provided by Green Building Services, Lane Powell, Coates Kokes, Green Bear Group, the Institute for Sustainable Solutions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and other partners supporting the mission of the organization.
“The Stadium Managers Association is very excited to hear about the formation of the Green Sports Alliance. Their objective of developing an advanced environmental model for sports facilities aligns with our objective to assist stadium managers in achieving the highest levels of facility operations. The Stadium Managers Association looks forward to working with the Green Sports Alliance on these common objectives of enhancing the efficient and sustainable operations of stadiums.”
Joe Abernathy
President, Board of Directors - Stadium Managers Association
Board of Directors
Scott Jenkins
Vice President of Ballpark Operations, Seattle Mariners/Safeco Field (Chairman)
Darryl Benge
Assistant General Manager, First & Goal, Inc. - Seattle Seahawks/Sounders FC/CenturyLink Field
Jennifer Carlson
Director of Sponsorship Sales, Seattle Storm (Secretary)
Val Fishman
Vice President Climate Business Group, Bonneville Environmental Foundation
Allen Hershkowitz
Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
Michael Doyle
Executive Vice President and Arena General Manager, Vancouver Canucks/Rogers Arena
Steve Scott
Director of Sales, Portland Trail Blazers
Martin Tull
Executive Director, Green Sports Alliance (Non-voting member)
Jason Twill
Senior Project Manager, Sustainability, Vulcan Inc.
David Van’t Hof
Shareholder, Lane Powell P.C.
Justin Zeulner
Director of Sustainability and Planning, Rose Quarter/Portland Trail Blazers (Treasurer)
The Summit
Sep. 5th-7th, 2012
Seattle, Washington
Join us for the second annual Green Sports Alliance Summit. Learn how professional sports teams and venues have saved millions of dollars in operating expenses, reduced their environmental impact, and inspired their fans to join in the effort.
Program and registration details coming soon:
www.greensportssummit.org
Testimonials
Featured Member
Sun Devil Power comes from 57 projects across Arizona State University’s four campuses: Tempe, Downtown Phoenix, Polytechnic and West. Sun Devil Athletics facilities host more than 3.5 megawatts (MW) of photovoltaic energy systems of ASU’s total 15.3 MW:
- Sun Devil Stadium Parking Deck (711 kW)
- Wells Fargo Arena (497 kW)
- Carson Student Athletic Facility (71 kW)
- Verde Dickey Dome (indoor football practice facility, 168 kW)
- Lot 59 (a favorite tailgating location, 2.1 MW)
Fans arrive at Sun Devil games on the METRO light rail, or by regional buses, which stop near all major venues.
