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Sport events urged to follow Tennis Australia’s lead and ditch fossil fuel sponsorship

Renew Economy

With Tennis Australia ditching Santos as a major sponsor, there are fresh calls to end fossil fuel sponsorship of sports and other major events. The post Sport events urged to follow Tennis Australia’s lead and ditch fossil fuel sponsorship appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Agents of Impact: Professional basketball players. The women and the men.

Impact Alpha

And then professional leagues from baseball to soccer to tennis. The sports world’s bottom-up, wildcat strike followed the police shooting. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 28 – When the lineup of the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court on Wednesday, the players didn’t realize they’d be joined by the rest of the NBA. And then the WNBA.

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CRAs Playscraper stacks 8 tennis courts into a 300-foot-tall skyscraper

AGreenLiving

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Italo Rota have unveiled designs for the Playscraper, a Jenga-like skyscraper that stacks together eight tennis courts for a total of 60,000 square feet of playing space. The Playscraper would also incorporate electronic facades to broadcast sports matches and other digital content.

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Net Zero Culture Spotlight: Hattie Park, the All England Lawn Tennis Club

Business Green

VIDEO: Sustainability manager for the organisation which holds the Wimbledon tennis championships chats to BusinessGreen ahead of the Net Zero Culture summit. Hattie Park is the sustainability manager at the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) in Wimbledon, perhaps best known as the Wimbledon tennis championships.

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Sky Sports kicks off 'season of sustainability' with new green broadcast certification

Business Green

Top flight football coverage is the latest target of media giant Sky's efforts to curb its contribution to climate change, with the broadcaster announcing today that all Premier and English Football League matches shown live on Sky Sports this season will carry new green certifications.

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Losing the race: Olympic sports federations accused of slow progress on environmental sustainability

Business Green

A new study reveals only four Olympic-recognised International Sports Federations have implemented sustainability plans. World Sailing had made the most progress, followed by World Athletics, World Rowing, and FIFA, but popular sports like tennis and swimming were among those that showed no progress, according to the report.

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Match fit: BAFTA kicks off albert green scheme for sports broadcasting

Business Green

New Sports Consortium to help broadcasters share green best practices, as sports industry strives to curb environmental impacts. The group will also look to build on the progress made by a growing number of sporting bodies in attempting to curb the industry's outsized environmental footprint.

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