Winter Olympic Actions: Guard Fox Watch
Rapporto del Guard Fox Watch, Agosto 2003 INDICE Introduzione Il Contesto Bioregionale Impatto sull’Ambiente L’Approccio Bioregionale Raccomandazioni per una applicazione bioregionale delle misure ambientali dei Giochi Olimpici. (Risposta alle linee guida espresse su “Atti della Regione – Atti dello Stato, sommario parte I – II”, Bollettino Ufficiale Regione Piemonte, Torino 18 Aprile 2001) Territorio e Paesaggio Necessità di Monitoraggio Bioregionale e Banca Dati Linee Guida per […]
Call to Action: Help Stop The Greenwashing Of The Winter Olympics! Make The 2002 Games In Salt Lake City Ecologically Sustainable! The 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah represent a precedent-making opportunity to transform one of the most popular sports events on the planet into a model of environmental sensitivity and sustainability. Many of these competitions are outdoors and have direct impacts on natural […]
Bioregional Olympics: Environmental Recommendations Go Unheeded by Olympics Organizers The Salt Lake Organizing Committee (SLOC) is “greenwashing” the 2002 Winter Olympics. Even though assigned the task of providing the first environmentally sound Winter Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), SLOC makes claims that it refuses to substantiate and fails to take the necessary steps that can insure a satisfactory level of compliance. The IOC […]
Why Take on the Winter Olympics, and What Came of the Effort? Planet Drum Foundation has opposed the environmental impacts of the Winter Olympics since 1996. It was then that wildlife biologist Kimiharu To who was studying ptarmigan birds in the Hakuba Mountains of Nagano, Japan and working as a part-time ski guide and rice farmer contacted me for assistance in informing the local residents […]
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 […]
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