This is an interesting article on a slightly different view of the environmental impacts of sport. It kind of flips the issue of how the changing environment affects athletes and how athletes can use their voice and power in society to guide greater change and action. #Empowerment #GlobalAction

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One example I thought about that I don’t believe was brought up in class was how downhill skiing can cause negatives effects on the environment. For example when skiers go off the path and cause damage to the area, and animal habitats. Should there be more effort to limit off trail skiing?

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Going to nationals for basketball and interacting with everyone from different provinces was a really good unity experience! At the end of the tournament, we all go together and traded our team gear and it was really cool to talk to them and bring something new home to remember the experience by!

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This article is about a runner who noticed that the water stations in a marathon there ends up being a bunch of plastic cups on the ground. She created reusable cups for marathons to help reduce the use of plastic overall helping the environment in the long run.

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Golf courses are made through drastic changes to an environment and are more often then not very unhealthy to nature. This article is about a company that wanted to build golf courses in the home of an endangered species. The fact of the endangered speices did not matter. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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