Green Sports Pod
Episode 8: Two Interviews For The Price Of One
The eighth episode of GreenSportsPod is a first in that we have two interviews for your listening, and hopefully learning pleasure. Leading off is Maggie Badore, web director/writer/reporter for “The Years Project,” the excellent online video documentary series about the impacts of climate change happening now. Among other things, we talk about how sports content has fared on “Years”. Next up is Kevin Wilhelm, the sustainability consultant with an impressive sports practice. But Green-Sports takes a back seat to politics as we discussed Wilhelm’s — and co-author Natalie Hoffman’s — new book, “How To Talk to the Other Side: Finding […]
Episode 7: Mario Molina, Executive Director of Protect Our Winters, On “The Outdoor State”
Protect Our Winters (POW) has been a Green-Sports beacon for the past decade, educating world class and Olympic medal-winning skiers, snowboarders, trail runners, and more about climate change. From the nonprofit’s early days until today, those POW Athlete Ambassadors lobby Members of Congress and snow state legislators on behalf of climate-friendly legislation. Today’s guest, Mario Molina, became POW’s Executive Director in 2017. Under his leadership, the organization is working to coalesce and unleash the political power of “The Outdoor State,” the 50 million Americans who enjoy snow and adventure sports, to impact the 2020 U.S. elections in favor of candidates, […]
Episode 6: NFLer Garry Gilliam Tackles Systemic Oppression, Environmental Injustice with The Bridge Eco-Village
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 […]
Episode 5: Joint Interview with Lily Brazel, Field Hockey Star, Eco-Preneur and Podcaster
Today’s Episode 5 of GreenSportsPod, the occasional podcast series from GreenSportsBlog, is an experiment of sorts. You see, not only is today’s guest, Lily Brazel a member of the Hockeyroos, Australia’s National Field Hockey team, hopeful of making her first Olympics next summer at Tokyo20ne…not only is she an Eco-Preneur as founder of Stature Clothing Australia…the 25-year-old EcoAthletes Supporter also is host of The State Of Us podcast. Thus, our experiment was to interview each other. So, not only will you learn about Lily’s beyond-fascinating journey, you’ll also get to hear a bit of my Green-Sports story. We hope you have as much […]
Episode 4: Milos Ribic, Director of Adidas Ventures, Investing in Sustainable and New Sports Media Startups
Welcome to GreenSportsPod, the new occasional podcast series from GreenSportsBlog. Our guest for Episode 4 is Milos Ribic, director of Adidas Ventures, the athletic apparel maker’s venture capital arm. His job is to identify investment-worthy startups that will help fuel the company’s success over the next 5 to 30 years. It was Ribic’ and Adidas’ focus on two sectors — sustainable materials and new sports media — that drew GreenSportsPod’s interest. We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we enjoyed conducting it. Let us know what you think about the pod via GreenSportsBlog’s comment section and/or the […]
Episode 3: Melissa Kalicin, Founder of Green-Sports Startup Oceanum Vela
Wednesday’s Earth Week at 50 series opener looked back to the beginnings of Earth Day — and the sports connections to it — in our interview with Tia Nelson, daughter of Earth Day founder, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin. In today’s installment, we shift our gaze forward with our GreenSportsPod interview with Melissa Kalicin, founder of Oceanum Vela, a startup that saves soon-to-be-discarded sails from elite racing boats (think Ocean Race or America’s Cup) from the landfill and upcycles them into duffels, handbags and much more. The Oceanum Vela story is but one example of a dynamic Green-Sports startup ecosystem that […]
Episode 2 Guest: Dr. Maddy Orr
Welcome to GreenSportsPod, the new occasional podcast series from GreenSportsBlog. Our guest for Episode 2 is Dr. Maddy Orr, founder of Sport Ecology Group, an innovative nonprofit that distills the growing amount of sports-sustainability focused academic research so professionals working at the intersection of Green & Sports can make practical use of it. She is also a sustainable-sports futurist of sorts, envisioning ways that sports might best deal with environmental crises like climate change before they become acute. That is why we were happy to talk with Dr. Orr about what the world would like if sports dealt with climate change in […]
Episode 1 Guest: Dr. Allen Hershkowitz
Welcome to GreenSportsPod, the new occasional podcast series from GreenSportsBlog. Is now the right time to launch a podcast about the intersection of Green and Sports, with the world in the midst of the harrowing outbreak of COVID-19? Who really knows but here’s why we answered yes: COVID-19-related news will — and should — be the first (and second and third and…) thing people seek out for the foreseeable future. Yet we also know that many if not most folks will have some bandwidth for other content. And we know that climate change is not waiting for the coronavirus crisis to […]