Winter Olympic Actions: Guard Fox Watch
OLYMPICS; Greenest Games Ever? Not! Los Angeles TimesFebruary 3, 2002 Opinion; Part M; Page 1; Editorial Pages Desk It will cost nearly $2 billion to stage the Salt Lake City Olympics–almost $800,000 per athlete–with U.S. taxpayers picking up about a quarter of the tab. Partly due to increased security, the Utah Games, which start on Feb. 8 and continue for 17 days, will be the most […]
Bioregional Olympics: Roots of Action In 1998, the Director of Planet Drum Foundation and another member of the Bioregional Association of the Northern Americas trekked to Nagano, Japan and spent several exciting weeks working with Guard Fox Watch, a bioregional action group whose aim was to raise consciousness around the issue of the Olympics’ effect on the watersheds and environment where the Games took place. In […]
Nobody Wins If Nature Loses: Environmental risks posed by 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah San Francisco Bay Guardian Salt Lake City Olympic bid executives were furious when they learned that Nagano, Japan, had beaten them out for the 1998 Winter Games by allegedly paying $100,000 per vote to members of the International Olympic Committee. Determined not to come up short again, key Olympic officials from […]
Bioregional Olympics: Environmental “Greenwashing” of 2002 Olympic Winter Games Background Documentation Index of Materials The Olympic Movement and the Environment “Report and Recommendations” written by the Materials and Resource Management Working Group Guard Fox Watch Monitoring Recommendations Letter from Environmental Advisory Committee Ecological Standards for Activities Prior, During, and After 2002 Winter Olympic Games In Salt Lake City Letter from Diane Conrad Guard Fox Watch […]
Communiques 1998 Guard Fox Watch is bioregional activists in Japan, who provided an alternative view of the Winter 1998 Olympics at Nagano. Guard Fox Watch Statement I, February 4, 1998 Statement of Concern Regarding the Ecological Impact of the Nagano Winter Olympics (Globalist Games) The ecological impact of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Nagano has become an urgent concern of local residents, environmentally-conscious citizens of […]
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