The Power of Sports to Change the World: Roger McClendon of Green Sports Alliance | Ep. 25

This episode is cohosted with Beth Knox, President of the Seattle Sports Commission and a board member of Circlewood, the parent organization of this podcast. Together we talk to Roger McClendon, Executive Director of the Green Sports Alliance—an organization that leverages the influence of sports to promote healthy, sustainable communities. According to Roger, sports has the power to unify people, and even to help them have common vision to engage big issues like climate change.

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Guest: Roger McClendon - Green Sports Alliance
Cohost: Beth Knox - Circlewood board member and President of the Seattle Sports Commission

TV show - Wild Kingdom
Cuyahoga river catching fire
Flint, MI water crisis
United Nations sustainable development goals
Nelson Mandela quote - "sport has the power to change the world": 
Clean Water Act - 1970's
MLB - changing lightbulbs; 
PlanLED - changing lights in Safeco Field
ESPN network's ESPY awards
methane produced by food waste in landfills
bioplastics
Tesla - focusing on performance, but creating best electric vehicles
Apartheid in S. Africa - 1980's boycott of gas companies that supported Apartheid
Super Bowl 2021 - NFL Green
Mohammed Ali - refused the draft and lost his title
Colin Kaeperknick - kneeling protest
George Floyd's death
Ahmaud Arbery's death
Breonna Taylor's death
Lebron James' talking about Black Lives Matter
Environmental Justice - correlation between areas of lower socio-economic status and rates of environmental pollution
ESG - e

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