Sustainability Huddle

When The Sustainability Report first met Karina LeBlanc, she shared a platform with Prince Albert II of Monaco at COP24 in Poland, urging the sports industry to “wake up” and be part of the solution to climate change. It’s a subject that became very close to her heart after her home country of Dominica (she moved to Canada when she was eight) was decimated by Hurricane Maria in 2017.  During this...

Shortly after Christopher Lee was interviewed by The Sustainability Report Podcast , his firm Populous revealed its vision for the stadium being planned by the two big Milanese football clubs – Internazionale and AC Milan.  Although the design competition is still in its bidding phase, it’s fair to say that a number of people in the sports industry and connected to the city of Milan were blown awa...

Just under a year ago, the Bahraini footballer Hakeem al-Araibi stepped off an aircraft – which flew from his adopted home Australia to Bangkok in Thailand – to celebrate his honeymoon. Before he could reach the terminal building, he was picked up by Interpol and thrown in a Thai prison, on the authority of the Bahrain government, for speaking out against the alleged persecution of footballers at...

Paula Radcliffe is, indisputably, one of the greatest athletes of the modern era. During her peak in the early noughties, it seemed like every time she took to the road to compete in a marathon, another World Record tumbled. That’s not to mention the dozens of medals (mostly gold) she picked up running in cross country and stadium events during a stellar two-decade career. Radcliffe’s achievements...

In September 2019, Common Goal’s website crashed. It crashed because, during his acceptance speech for Best Male Coach of the Year at the 2019 FIFA Awards, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp used his platform to encourage everybody to check out the growing football for development movement.  And, as the Common Goal IT team quickly discovered, the affable German is a pretty persuasive guy. More signifi...

Emily Penn’s appearance on this week’s edition of The Sustainability Report Podcast couldn’t be more timely. Next month, the ocean advocate and skipper will embark on her most ambitious project to date: sending 300 multidisciplinary women around the world to conduct scientific research on the growing ocean plastics crisis. The eXXpedition crew will experience 30 voyages (equating to 38,000 nautica...

Welcome to The Sustainability Report Podcast! The place for inspiration and insight from sport and sustainability champions. In Episode Zero, the platform's founder and editor Matthew Campelli explains why we've launched the podcast and what you can expect from future editions. Matthew will also reveal the sport and sustainability champions who will feature over the first few episodes, a...

Two years ago, you may have struggled to find people outside of the winter sports scene who knew the name Chris Mazdzer. But following a stellar 18 months, in which he became the first American to win an Olympic medal in the sport of luge – and a subsequent appearance on the hit TV format Dancing with the Stars – Mazdzer found himself in the spotlight. Now he’s using his rising profile to get wint...