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British Rower and Champion for Earth Melissa Wilson Joins EcoAthletes Champions Team
Her years at the University of Cambridge were formative for Melissa Wilson as both a climate activist and an athlete. "As a teenager I was startled and unsettled by information in the media and watching 'An Inconvenient Truth'," recalled Wilson. "However, it was...
Australia’s Jemima Montag: Race Walker, Food Desert Fighter and Now EcoAthletes Champion
Talk to Jemima Montag — she won gold for Australia in the 20 km walk on home soil at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane — for ten minutes and you will get that she has the "it factors" you would expect in a champion athlete: Confidence, perseverance,...
Arianna Criscione, Goalkeeper and Marketing Exec for PSG, First Footballer/Soccer Player to Join EcoAthletes Champions Roster
Arianna Criscione is unique among professional athletes: The California native is both a professional goalkeeper for Paris powerhouse PSG and the sponsorship manager for the women's team. The defining characteristic of Criscione's 13-year professional career has been...
Dr. Allen Hershkowitz, Green-Sports Founding Father, Latest Luminary to Support EcoAthletes
Dr. Allen Hershkowitz has been at or near the center of most of the major advances that have taken place at the intersection of Green & Sports since the early 2000s. From greening the Philadelphia Eagles operations in 2004 to helping to establish Major League...
New Zealand Doubles Star Marcus Daniell Becomes Latest EcoAthletes Champion
The tight-knit nature of New Zealand's athlete community is responsible for doubles specialist Marcus Daniell becoming the newest EcoAthlete Champion. "I was lucky enough to be introduced to the EcoAthletes team by fellow Kiwi and field hockey star Hugo Inglis, whom I...
Outrider Foundation Becomes Newest EcoAthletes Supporter, Looking to Reach New Audience for Climate-Fighting Message
To Tia Nelson, Managing Director for Climate Change at the Outrider Foundation — a non-partisan nonprofit that "imagines a world where people live without fear of climate-induced catastrophe or nuclear war" — there is an under-reported aspect as to why humanity hasn't...
U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce Becomes EcoAthletes Organizational Supporter
Today's announcement of a partnership between EcoAthletes and the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce demonstrates the value of connecting the former's network of climate change fighting Athlete Champions with the hundreds of thousands of sustainability-minded small,...
Active Giving, Startup That Turns Exercise Into Funding for Carbon Reductions, Becomes EcoAthletes Supporter
About two years ago, the Berlin-based avid runner/cyclist and serial social entrepreneur Laurent Petit had an idea: Connecting workouts with social value with the brands that would want to reach the cause-minded exercisers. A year later, with the support of...
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Climate Scientist and Climate Communicator Extraordinaire, Becomes EcoAthletes Supporter
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is one of the most powerful climate communicators in the world. Time Magazine, which in 2014 named her to its list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World", would agree. So would President Obama, who was joined by Dr. Hayhoe in an...
Hannah Mills Brings Her Platform as Olympic Sailing Gold Medalist, Big Plastic Pledge Founder to EcoAthletes
To win Olympic Gold in sailing takes a myriad of qualities that also come in handy in the world of environmental and climate activism: Perseverance, adaptability and, perhaps most importantly the ability to read the winds and thus to know when to attack. Hannah Mills...
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