August 6, 2024 / Leave a Comment
As the 2024 Summer Olympics continue in Paris, Table Stakes is continuing our series on sustainability and sports. Joining us today is the Founder of EcoAthletes, Lew Blaustein. This summer, EcoAthletes has 18 Olympians competing in Paris. Together, they’ve engaged in advocacy, communications, personal sustainability actions, and more in their time in Paris, before and after.
Our Guest Today:
Lew Blaustein, Founder, EcoAthletes
After a successful career in sports marketing communications and advertising sales, Lew Blaustein became passionate about the environment and climate change as a patriotic reaction to the 9/11 attacks. A successful solo eco-preneur career soon followed with the opening of LBS Green Solutions in 2005. Since then, Blaustein has helped build a myriad of green-focused businesses and non-profits by creating, telling and selling their green stories. Lew launched EcoAthletes in 2020 at the heigh of the COVID-19 pandemic, and since then has grown the organization to include an experienced team of athletes and academics, climate scientists and ecopreneurs, green business leaders and journalists, devoted to identifying & equipping the Jackie Robinsons and the Megan Rapinoes of the climate crisis to lead climate action
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Shownotes
The list below details any key topics, issues, articles, notes mentioned in today’s show.
- Reds pitcher Brent Suter makes ‘everything-ist’ pitch for the environment ahead of Earth Day
- EcoAthletes Collegiate Cup
- EcoAthletes’ model for athlete support
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