Green Sports Day
Original Event Description
There are 3 pillars for the 2024 Green Sports Day
- Inspire Action
- Demonstrate Leadership
- Impact Community
You've chosen IMPACT COMMUNITY. The Green Sports Alliance has partnered with several organizations to help you activate your community & team.
- Host a shoe drive! Promote to your staff & fans to bring old shoes to the stadium to have them recycled by Eco Sneaker
- Email Lynn at info@ecosneakers.org to activate!
- Interested in reuse as a sustainability goal at your stadium or venue?
- Email jessica@rworldreuse.com for more details.
- Gather your community to plant an orchard!
- Email amy@givinggrove.org to get started.
- Sound Future’s ‘Surf & Turf’ program is making it easy for live events to restore the planet
- Email zoe@asoundfuture.org to learn more or visit https://sound-future-foundation.square.site/ to make a donation.
5. Community Service Unlimited (only in Southern California)
- Volunteer on a grow farm! Check dates for signing up.
- Email cris@csuinc.org for more information or sign up in the link provided!
- Implementing a phased approach to a diversity, inclusion, and integration strategy development.
- Email discoverintegratedsolutions@gmail.com
- Take a sustainability pledge, build eco-challenges for yourself, and catalyze action with our fun, interactive sustainability course: Cultivate.
- Go to this page to gain free access to the Cultivate course or contact Amy@triplewinadvisory.com for details.
- Interested in REUSE at your stadium or venue?
- Contact heather@boldreuse.com
- Invest in eco 501c3s through Earth Gives Day – a nationwide giving day now through October 1 to boost environmental giving beyond just 2%. Individuals, teams, leagues and venues can create “mini-fundraisers” off of any nonprofit you choose. Takes 5 minutes. Share it with your own community to spread the word far and wide.
- Questions? Connect@earthgives.org
- Organize a “B(l)each Party” at your stadium or venue to raise awareness about coral bleaching and the threat of extinction.
- Email Ana at info@oceanus.life for more details.
11. Alliance for Audited Media
- Participating in an event sustainability certification can help guide your company on ways to make your sporting event more environmentally and socially sustainable
- To learn more, watch the brief video in the link or contact AAM’s Kristina Meinig at
kristina.meinig@auditedmedia.com
- Participate in Imagine a Day Without Water on October 17 to help raise national awareness about the value of water in our lives – including in how we play! [insert sports ball emojis here]
- Email charowski@uswateralliance.org for more information.
- Commit to taking positive action for nature protection and restoration as a signatory to the S4N Framework
- Teamwork is in our nature. Learn more about joining our global movement, email us: sportsfornature@iucn.org