Sustainability for Sports Organisations: New BASIS Course
Sustainability for Sports Organisations: New BASIS Course BASIS is pleased to announce a new online course – Sustainability for Sports Organisations – to be run by Dr Russell Seymour, launched in Autumn 2020. COVID-19 is a grave crisis, but it does not make urgent issues including climate change, food waste and single-use plastic go away. […]
Can Football Build Back Better?
#BuildBackBetter – It’s the term that has been used across many industries and governments over the last few months since the Coronavirus pandemic shut down so many aspects of our daily lives. And sport was no exception. The sporting calendar decimated in a matter of weeks and, in the world of football? Virtually every league […]
Russell Seymour: Scientific Backing for Reusables Post-COVID
BASIS CEO Russell Seymour highlights advice on reusables in sport after COVID-19 by Russell Seymour Millions of pieces of single use plastics have been removed from sports venues and operations – they would otherwise have gone to waste; hopefully recycled, possibly burned, at worst landfilled. The question of whether COVID-19 has put this fantastic progress […]
Cyclist Magazine: Riding Into A The Storm
BASIS’ Dom Goggins quoted in Cyclist analysis of the impact of climate change on pro cycling, after the 2019 Tour de France and World Championships are disrupted Perhaps Julian Alaphilippe was about to pull off a rousing comeback on Stage 19 of the Tour de France to give France its long-awaited winner. Or we […]
Shane Warne ‘taken aback’ by BASIS Hit for Six Report
Aussie legend Shane Warne tells The Guardian that cricket needs to be proactive about climate change after BASIS’ Hit For Six Report Click Here to Read Hit for Six Report Shane Warne has called for cricket to be “proactive, not reactive” about the dangers the sport faces due to the climate crisis, after being shocked […]
BBC Coverage: How Green Is Your Football Club?
BASIS CEO Russell Seymour is quoted in BBC Sport report on sustainability in football, a collaboration with our friends at Sport Positive Summit. You can also watch Dom Goggins’ interview on BBC Sportsday here Extinction Rebellion protests, flooding and wildfires mean environmental issues, climate change and sustainability are right at the top of the world’s […]
The Athletic Coverage: Football & Climate Change
BASIS CEO Russell Seymour quoted in a Jack Pitt-Brooke’s wide ranging report for The Athletic about climate change, sustainability and football Liverpool have already played 36 games this season and if they keep winning in the FA Cup and Champions League — and you would not bet against them — the Istanbul final in May […]