by #TikRoot in @grist:

"The Green certainly isn’t the first sports team to address climate change. Most franchises now have some sort of sustainability program and the Seattle Kraken play hockey in “Climate Pledge Arena.” But the Green is the only squad in the United States with climate justice as its driving principle, putting it at the vanguard of a burgeoning movement to make sports a platform for climate action."

https://grist.org/culture/how-one-soccer-team-makes-climate-progress-its-goooal/

#soccer #Vermont #Green #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #climate #environment #sustainability #ClimateAction #Grist