“I’m a nerd wrapped up in an athlete’s body” So says triple major at Penn State, retired NFL offensive lineman, CEO of The Bridge Eco Village (an innovative mixed use real estate development company that prioritizes environmental justice), motivational speaker, and EcoAthletes Champion Garry Gilliam. He can now add children’s eco-book author to his phenomenal athlete-nerd resume, with the publication of “The Bleacher Garden”, a true life story about Garry’s vision to convert an abandoned high school football field and the bleachers surrounding it into a garden that helps feed the community in his hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Click below […]

Today’s sixth episode of GreenSportsPod is the first to expand the conversation beyond the intersection of Green & Sports, adding the related issues of systemic oppression and racism that are roiling the United States and beyond. Garry Gilliam experienced this hope-squashing system firsthand during his childhood in the opportunity-deprived section of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Now, the ex-NFL offensive lineman is using his resources and his seemingly boundless energy to try to break that system, replacing it with a more equitable, hopeful one. His system-breaking tool is The Bridge Eco-Village, an innovative startup that provides opportunities for African-Americans and other marginalized people […]