A Documentary to Save Hockey and the Planet (Approximately 5-minute read) Pitching the intersection between sport and climate can be a tough sell. Sport is either of religious importance to people or an example of luxury and excess. Last year, while presenting the EcoAthletes Climate Manifesto at COP26 in Scotland, I met director Jon AlpertContinue reading “The Last Game – Italy (Part 1)”
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A Look Back: No Meat Athlete Podcast
Plant-Based is good for the planet & athletic performance (Approximately 6 min. read) A year ago, I had the opportunity to speak on a podcast about being vegan. The real reason I went on the show was to raise awareness of EcoAthletes’ involvement at COP26 (which I wrote about, here). I was interviewed by MattContinue reading “A Look Back: No Meat Athlete Podcast”
SPORTS@COP: Athlete Advocacy for Climate Action
(Approximately 9 minute read) In an earlier post, I wrote about The Last Game documentary and its filming in Scotland during the COP26 global climate conference last November. That was only one reason for the trip. Athletes Assembly Last summer, I joined EcoAthletes, a climate advocacy nonprofit that seeks to leverage the platform and socialContinue reading “SPORTS@COP: Athlete Advocacy for Climate Action”
The Last Game
A Documentary to Save Hockey and the Planet (Approximately 11-minute read) “When you find out what people care about, and connect climate impacts directly to the values people have, they can see that caring about climate change is already integral to who they are.” Katharine Hayhoe in Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for HopeContinue reading “The Last Game”
Introducing Jacquie “the Wanderer”
A week ago, I moved to a small city, nestled between mountains and vineyards in northeastern Italy. I will soon be starting my eighth semi-professional ice hockey season with a new team, the Bolzano Eagles. Hockey has taken me to some incredible places: I’ve had the opportunity to play in the SDHL in Stockholm; theContinue reading “Introducing Jacquie “the Wanderer””
Jacquie “the Wanderer” 