Posts Tagged: London 2012

With its medal-winning hand-held camera work, Oana and I have created this whistle-stop, sustainability-spotting guide to a few of the green features at the London 2012 Olympic park and village. If you have your own images and videos of anything that impressed you – or disappointed you – at the ‘greenest Games ever’, do tell [...]

As the best-attended Paralympic Games in history gets underway, I’ve been watching keenly to see how the transition between Olympics and Paralympics would be achieved according to ‘One Planet 2012’ sustainable principles. The Games always has a huge amount of what event experts call ‘overlay’ – banners, signs, uniforms, promotional materials and so on. In [...]

Fiona Pelham, chair of the ISO20121 committee, considers the long-term sustainability legacy of the London 2012 Games. “So what will be the main legacies of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games? This question has been asked constantly since 2005, and now, as the time for ‘legacy’ gets closer, the interest in it is growing. [...]

After my last post’s uncharacteristic outburst of unrestrained Olympic positivity I thought I had better ease back into the role of cautious and critical friend of the Games! After years working towards these few weeks, my trips to the Olympics have also left me frustrated. Undoubtedly, there is lots of sustainability in the Olympic Park… [...]

After a bit of a misunderstanding with LOCOG in the first week of the Games – when it turned out (very inconveniently) that my ‘Sustainability Support’ accreditation would not automatically get me into the Olympic Park – this week I have spent a lot of time there. My impressions of the Park have prompted some [...]

WWF’s partnership with BioRegional, a fantastic social enterprise that helps organisations worldwide to be sustainable, has been a huge part of our work to make London 2012 the greenest Olympics ever. From the BioRegional office in BedZED, the first-of-its-kind sustainable community  in South London that the organisation helped create, BioRegional’s Olympic manager Duncan Cowan Gray [...]

So what’s the greatest sports stadium on the planet – and why does it deserve our protection? Watch this short film to find out… With the Olympics in everyone’s thoughts, it’s a timely reminder about easy-to-overlook connections between healthy outdoor pursuits and a healthy outdoor environment – linking sports and the natural world, beautifully… Got [...]

For those of you lucky enough to have tickets for the Games, or just planning to be glued to your telly for the next few weeks, we thought we’d point out some of the green highlights to look out for in-between the sporting endeavours. Your guide today is David Stubbs, who’s led the London Organising [...]

With the Games finally kicking off this week, one of the big talking points has been the food on offer at the events. Shaun McCarthy, who’s chaired the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 recalls previous Olympic eating experiences – and tells us how he thinks London 2012’s food offerings shape up.

So will London 2012 move us closer to a greener, more sustainable Olympics – an event that respects the ecological limits of our one and only planet? Will it hit the sustainability standards we helped set for it? See what we think and then have your say. The scorecard report that WWF and Bioregional have [...]