 Spotlight
Champions for Change at the Winter Olympics
Champions for Change pro soccer player Natalie Spilger shone a spotlight on green Olympians all through the games via her foundation GreenLaces. First up, U.S. biathlete Lowell Bailey, who led the way in recruiting athletes to Team GreenLaces. The organization offset the leading recruiter’s carbon emissions from traveling to and from the games. Champions for Change Sara Renner competed for Canada in the cross country skiing, and also joined Team GreenLaces.
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| Champion for Change Sara Renner preparing for the Olympics in Whistler, 2009. |
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Events
Volunteers needed!
On April 17, GSA New York will be teaming up with the Town of Cornwall Conservation Advisory Council to mark Earth Day. Volunteers are needed for a cleanup along the majestic Old Storm King Highway, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Contact the New York Team. |
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| 2009 Clean up |
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Sailing to Japan
The GSA USA flag is heading to Japan in style! Concord, California Team Captain Fuu Miyatani French will sail from California to Tokyo in 2012. Catch up with him on his blog, and stay tuned for more as his ambitious plans emerge. |
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| French raising the ecoflag on his boat as he prepares to sail to Japan. |
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In the news!
Two recent articles highlighted GSA USA and Champions for Change:
Browse them here:
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Youth Action in Tucson
Team Captain Chris Valdez helped youth construct a nature-inspired maze and plant native trees, shrubs and wildflowers during the Community Action Event in Tucson, Arizona in February. Organized by the Drug Education For Youth program, other partners included Southwest Conservation Corps, Prescott College, and the University of Arizona 4-H group. The teens and volunteers also dug rainwater catchment basins and lined them with rocks, just in time for the rain to pour down and irrigate the newly planted vegetation.
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Greening Grass at Disney
In February, New York Team Captain Kevin Trotta addressed 1600-strong audience at the national Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) Conference and Exhibition at Disney in Florida. Kevin's presentation, Green Acres: Environmentalism and the Sports Turf Manager, promoted the mission of the Global Sports Alliance and explored the development and implementation of eco-friendly athletic field management strategies. In a second, separate session he joined three other sports field experts in a discussion, Organic Approaches to Turfgrass Management. STMA is a GSA USA partner, and three sports turf managers currently serve as GSA USA Team Captains. |
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| Kevin Trotta and STMA Executive Director Kim Heck at the conference |
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Celebration of Teaching and Learning
On March 5th, GSA USA President Jane Poynter presented GSA and Champions for Change at Celebration of Teaching and Learning in Manhattan amongst a lineup of luminaries such as Jordanian Queen Noor and American star Queen Latifah. |
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Rides for causes!
Join Team Captain Kevin Trotta and members of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation on March 27th for a bicycle ride on the Mount Vernon Trail, highlighting efforts under way to restore the polluted bay. Riders will see the Jefferson Memorial, Washington Monument, and Historic Old Town Alexandria. Along the way they'll discuss water quality issues, and current Federal initiatives to help restore the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay, one of the world's largest estuaries.
That same day in Tucson, AZ, ride and raise money for Multiple Sclerosis Society in their MS Roundup Ride 2010.
You can also ride for the environment with our partner Perimeter Bicycling Association of America in their upcoming events: the Holualoa Companies 19th El Tour de Phoenix presented by Pierson Construction Corporation on Saturday, April 10, 2010; and Holualoa Companies 24th Tour of the Tucson Mountains presented by Town of Marana on Sunday, April 25, 2010. |
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Volunteer Spotlight
A big shout out to Xuemin Chi for her extraordinary help in our Tucson office through the hectic holiday season. Best wishes, Xuemin, at the University of California at Irvine. |
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Eco-Tips
Join the International Year of Biodiversity
GSA USA is partnering with the United Nations for its 2010 International Year of Biodiversity. Along with hundreds of other organizations around the world, we would encourage all our participants and partners to embrace the initiative, and consider how you can incorporate actions to help the other inhabitants of this wonderful planet to thrive. For more info check out www.unep.org/iyb/ |
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Easy way to help non-profits in a difficult economy
Go to www.goodsearch.com and enter Global Sports Alliance USA as your non-profit of choice. Every time you goodsearch instead of using other search engines to surf the web, money goes to GSA (or any other nonprofit you would like to help out). Please ask your friends to do the same. It adds up fast, and is a great way to help non-profits in this difficult economy.
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