Founder Kristen Fulmer joined the NWSL Club Chicago Red Stars’ IG Live during Defender Zoe Morse’s Instagram Takeover on their profile. Together, they chatted about Zoe’s Sustainable Mondays, Zoe’s sustainable lifestyle tips, and her ideas for sustainability inspiration!

Today, the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves will face off in the first game of the 2021 World Series. It may take seven games to determine the best team in Major League Baseball, but the race for potential opportunities in carbon emissions reduction has already been determined.

Together with WattTime, a clean energy nonprofit, Recipric has developed a hypothetical standing to see which team would have the most impact if they all decided to produce renewable energy – and where that impact would come from.

Put simply, WeWork holds the power to make a measurable dent in Man City’s sustainability goals. While that statement is true of all WeWork members, this is the first time that WeWork is an ‘Official Partner’ of a professional sports organization. The untapped opportunity is not just about delivering the aligned sustainability goals, but in actually delivering the goals while leveraging the platform to share the impact with the global breadth of Manchester City’s fan base.

Recipric recently teamed up with Scouting & Scavenging to highlight the positive environmental benefits. Together, they calculated that the initiative has already diverted nearly 700 plastic bottles from landfill, which may amount to over 500 plastic bottles that were likely to end up in the ocean - nearly 80% of plastic waste does.

This week kicked off with an energized sense of optimism. After scrolling through Twitter, catching up on podcasts, and watching a While House Briefing dedicated to climate action, I’m happy to report that by Friday, the motivation persists. More importantly, I had one of those lightbulb moments that I needed to write down. After some deliberation, I’ve decided to share it, in hopes that it resonates or triggers a conversation.

You’re leaving your home stadium at the end of an exciting game. You’re walking up the stairs to the concourse and look back at the scoreboard to see the final score one last time, but you’re distracted by the litter strewn across the stands. You’re used to seeing some peanut shells or maybe a stray cup, but this is different. This is your first game back at the stadium since the COVID-19 pandemic. You were hesitant about the return and you’ve been cautious of your proximity to other fans and successfully avoided touching any shared surfaces. Instead of peanut shells, you see used masks that were covering other fans’ faces, gloves that they wore but since removed, and plastic wrappers that were covering their food. The result is twice as much waste with only ⅕ the number of fans.

The last six months have exposed many truths and we’ve learned a lot about ourselves as a society, communities, and frankly ourselves as individuals. One thing we can be sure: Health and Wellbeing are critical elements of our decision-making and how we navigate and evolve our lifestyle to accommodate the rapid changes and ramifications of COVID-19. We’re spending a lot more time in whatever place we call home, causing us to think much more critically about what ‘home’ means and what we want our ‘home’ to look like.

This set of recommendations is designed to help homeowners, potential home buyers, and renters leverage elements of their homes that are within their control to improve their overall family’s health, while also considering environmental sustainability.

Right now, COVID-19 looks like the opponent’s star player and for any chance at a W, we have to stop them from scoring. The problem is, most teams have more than one scoring risk. To win, our defense against Coronavirus can’t just stop the most intimidating player. A championship team stops the whole team from scoring and leverages every chance possible to take the lead.

While defending COVID-19, we currently have the ball and a wide open chance to get ahead. This is the effort to #BuildBackBetter.

I started because I realized that I needed new clothes during the lockdown because I used all of my fabric to make masks. Since stores weren’t open, I had to start getting creative with the clothes I was making and the materials I was using. I want these clothes to basically say “You can wear anything. Anything can be reused and transformed.”

As a sustainability consultant, I continue to collaborate diligently with real estate owners, building operators, designers and architects in the effort to #BuildBackBetter, but am often asked how to validate and communicate the efforts to reopen safely and sustainably. This concern seems to be common across many industries, including commercial and residential real estate, sports and live event venues, and even in industrial spaces. It seems that most organizations are looking for the ‘rule-maker’ or the ‘best practice-setter’ and right now, the national guidelines are too generic to help set a precedent on their own. Many clients are struggling to find the guidelines for the specific applicability of how to reopen their spaces safely.

To date, around one in five U.S. adults have moved as a result of COVID. Some of these moves are temporary, but others will be permanent. Within our set of Giant COVID Survey respondents, we observed a migration of city residents to the suburbs and country since the start of COVID. And our respondents predict that a migration out of the city is likely to continue.

Throughout history, the real estate industry has adapted to perceived and actual risks. Building codes have adapted to withstand earthquakes, fires and market best practices are leveraged to enhance health and wellness, air quality, lighting quality, waste reduction, and energy efficiency. But now we face a new challenge, Covid-19.

This article provides resources to integrate effective health, safety, and sustainable solutions, including methods to validate those efforts by a third-party. This customized set of recommendations has been crafted to provide amenity owners and operators with the tools to ensure that the end users experience a safe and healthy positive experience when they return.

Over the next four weeks, the Sustainable Sport Research Collective* will present opportunities to integrate operational environmental sustainability into the reopening of stadiums and venues to fans. The team has identified three components of operations that may suffer environmental implications and have detailed opportunities to mitigate those risks, while addressing the critical need to safely reopen.

In identifying and aligning the missions of The Bridge and of EcoAthletes, Recipric was able to connect these organizations, leveraging Sustainable Development Goal 17, Partnerships for the Goals. Together, our missions in achieving Sustainable Development are stronger.

Due to COVID-19, this perfect synergy has been unplugged. Individuals with Impact have been disconnected with Brands with Platform. This is a loss for their professional development, community development, social interaction, but is also a tremendous loss for the future innovation and impact that these individuals would have provided to large sports organizations.

Taking these steps can be intimidating, and often lead to paralysis. Companies aren’t sure what to do and sometimes end up doing nothing at all. But organizations wanting to position themselves as green and sustainable have to face these challenges head on, in a meaningful, impactful way. Easier said than done, right? To get started, here are five tips to write a successful sustainability story that avoids greenwashing:

“The best thing for athletes to do is to talk about climate change. When you talk about the bushfires, when you talk about hurricane relief, when you talk about refugee crises. You don’t have to be an expert on the science. If high profile athletes talk about climate change, it will resonate.”

When I list my valued mentors and most respected colleagues in the building industry, I find myself writing the names of fearless, passionate women.

Technologies related to human wellbeing are standard in many office buildings, but largely unexplored in sports venues