Green Sports Pod

Episode 14: Dr. Maddy Orr On How Sports Can Make a Difference on Carbon Reductions

Searching for someone with whom to have a meaningful, cliché-free podcast discussion as part of GreenSportsBlog’s occasional ‘Sports & Carbon’ series, I looked no further than Dr. Maddy Orr, founder of Sport Ecology Group and a researcher at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Maddy readily agreed and what resulted was a conversation that delved into some thorny issues — like how sports should deal with fossil fuel company sponsors — and then turned into a brainstorm of sorts on ways to accelerate ways the sports world can pick up the pace on decarbonization. Have an idea or two on how the sports […]

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