The Miami HEAT have been sports industry leaders in green building initiatives and comprehensive tracking of facility-wide resource use since AmericanAirlines Arena became LEED-certified for existing buildings: operations and maintenance (EBOM) in the spring of 2009. For the better part of a year the HEAT worked on enhancing their operations in a race against the Atlanta Hawks to win the first LEED Certification for an arena in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The showdown culminated in a dead heat when the Green Building Certification Institute, a subset of the U.S. Green Building Council, awarded AmericanAirlines Arena and Philips Arena, the home of the Hawks, LEED certification on the same day, April 7, 2009. With a LEED certification under their belt, and many cost benefits and positive press mentions to boot, the HEAT are now working toward LEED recertification in 2014, which requires improving on all of their 2009 efficiency achievements.
For the first time in the history of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) final four, a sustainability committee was formed in 2011 to integrate ecologically intelligent practices into the event’s planning and production. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) was asked to join as a founding member of the NCAA final four Sustainability Committee, teaming up with LG Electronics, Waste Management, reliant park, the City of Houston and the George r. Brown Convention Center.
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) partnered with NRDC to launch its official greening effort at the 2008 US Open, including the tournament’s first water bottle and aluminum can recycling program, and the greening program has continued to make strong improvements at every Open since. “The commitment and expansion of the US Open Green Initiatives will ensure that the world’s highest annually- attended event is the most environmentally conscious,” said Jon Vegosen, chairman of the board and president, USTA, and chairman of the US Open. “These environmental endeavors have kept the USTA, the US Open and tennis fans in the forefront of the global effort to preserve the environment.”
The 2008 MLB All-Star Game Red Carpet Show featured the longest and greenest red carpet in history, winding up NYC’s Sixth Avenue, made from 100 percent recycled fiber content and manufactured using 100 percent renewable energy from solar and wind sources. The 95,000 square foot carpet was produced at Bentley Prince Street’s California manufacturing facility, which was the first in the country to receive a silver rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB). The carpet was also certified as an environmentally preferable product by Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). Through Bentley Prince Street’s manufacturing processes, MLB avoided the use of 6,300 pounds of fossil-fuel-derived fiber and 162,000 gallons of water during the carpet’s production. In addition, Bentley Prince Street also offset the carbon impact of the carpet by purchasing 480,000 pounds of Green-e certified emissions reduction credits. After the parade, Bentley Prince Street collected the carpet for recycling through its ReEntry 2.0 carpet reclamation program, avoiding landfill disposal for 45,000 pounds of carpet.
The World Minigolf Federation (WMF) organized on October 22, 2019, in cooperation with United Through Sports and the main sponsor of the World Championships 2019 Invengo Group Company Limited an UTS conference in Zhouzhuang, China. Julia Govinden, CEO of United Through Sports made now a clip out of the video material which was provided by WMF and Invengo. The title of the conference was "United Through Minigolf - Building Bridges".
We take a look at the cycling friendly city of Innsbruck in the Tirol region of Austria where the 2018 Union Cycliste Internationale's (UCI) Road World Championships took place.
The 2019 Union Cycliste Internationale's (UCI) Mobility & Bike City Forum took place in Paris. International experts from the cycling and mobility community were invited to discuss a wide range of topics, from everyday cycling promotion to the future of active and sustainable travel. Many representatives from UCI Bike Cities & Regions were also present, who shared their thoughts and examples on the current and future state of active mobility!
Members of the International Fencing Federation (FIE) Athletes commission are actively engaged in the promotion of the new programme Donate Your Fencing Gear launched in Verona in 2018.
FEI Helsinki has the ambitious goal, to be the most sustainable equestrian event worldwide. Find out what has been done so far on-site, to achieve this goal.
The auditing experiences of other sectors within the sporting goods industry have shown that a shared approach is the most effective way forward, minimizing confusion, audit duplication and audit fatigue for suppliers supporting multiple brands.
The mandate of the RSI for Bicycle group is to create a single, shared approach for social and environmental issues across the supply chain through a commonly held code of conduct, evaluation protocol and execution of supply chain audits to cultivate a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
