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Spotlight

We’re in the news!
Tucson Lifestyle Magazine will spotlight author Jane Poynter and GSA USA’s book Champions for Change in its February 2010 issue.

You can also check out Jane’s interview about us in Sports Magazine’s February 2010 Green Sports Events and Venues Issue. Excerpts available in next month’s newsletter.

Events

MS Roundup Ride 2010
Join us and our partner, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Arizona, for the Roundup Ride 2010 on March 27-28 in Florence, Arizona. GSA USA is working with MS Arizona Chapter towards a more sustainable event by replacing 100s of cases of plastic water bottles with dispensers of freshwater provided by locally-based Park Water Company. Participants will now fill up their reusable sports bottles, which reduces the amount of waste the event organizers have to handle, and prevents thousands of plastic bottles from going to the landfill (or, recycling plant of course).
Come by our booth at Walk MS on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 in Tucson!

Team Captain Kevin Trotta off to Disney World
In his ongoing work to make playing fields safe for athletes and the environment, New York Team Captain, Kevin Trotta will promote GSA-USA’s mission and present “Green Acres: Environmentalism and the Sports Turf Manger” at the Sports Turf Managers Association national conference in January at Disney World in Florida.  He will also participate in the panel discussion “Organic Approaches to Turfgrass Management”. Details >> 

Powering Down in Rochester
Rochester Team Captain Dan Schied blogs about his abundant efforts to save energy at the University of Rochester. In just 4 months he and his colleagues saved thousands of pounds of CO2 emissions simply by installing inexpensive programmable thermostats and time-controlled exhaust fans in equipment storage rooms. Automatically dropping the temperature at night, and having the fan turn off after 15 minutes (instead of being left on for days) saves over 30,000 lbs of CO2 in a year. Next, they’re going to work with the school of engineering to set up solar or wind energy on campus to power their electric grounds vehicles.

Tough Love!
Think you’re rugged? Test your metal this Valentine’s Day at the 24-hour endurance race in the Old Pueblo in Tucson, hosted by GSA USA’s partner, Epic Rides. Epic practices sustainability through their interactive recycling efforts, collection of cycling gear to be repurposed for used bikes or art, and environmental action to protect the trails.

Upcoming Champions for Change book signings and events

Bookmans in Tucson (6340 E Speedway):
Jane will present Champions for Change and sign books on Saturday, February 20th from 11 am to 1 pm.

Celebration of Teaching and Learning, New York:
On Saturday March 5th, Jane will present GSA and Champions for Change amongst a lineup of luminaries such as Jordanian Queen Noor and American star Queen Latifah.

The 2nd annual Tucson Festival of Books:
Join author Jane Poynter and other authors on the Mall at the University of Arizona on March 14th from noon until 2pm. Please click here for event details.

If you can’t make it to one of our many upcoming Champions for Change events, the book is available for purchase on our website and Amazon.com. Discount available for educators. (Please see our website for details).

Order now!

Volunteer Spotlight

A big thank you to GSA USA volunteer Nancy Huff!
Nancy has graciously given her time to volunteer for GSA USA. She is enthusiastic and brings a tremendous amount of energy to our organization.  We especially thank her for overseeing our booth efforts for the 2009 Hocofest Solar, Music, Audio Festival, the Indoor El Tour, the El Tour de Tucson Expo, and the Champions for Change book signing at El Tour Expo. Retired from the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Student Records Office, she is currently President of the Peter Howell Neighborhood Association. She volunteers her time annually with other organizations including the MLK Day Neighborhood Clean-Up and the UA Festival of Books. Nancy enjoys exercising, walking her dog, reading, beading and knitting.

Eco-Tips

A Fab Font saves Ink
Ecofont uses 20% less ink than other fonts. Why? Because it’s shot full of holes. Here it is: It reads just fine for internal documents, albeit a little funky for that special letter. Download it here (www.macworld/5551), stick it in your fonts folder and voila! Your office is already doing good while saving money.

Easy way to help non-profits in a difficult economy.
Go to www.goodsearch.com and enter Global Sports Alliance USA as your non-profit of choice. Every time you goodsearch  instead of other search engines to surf the web, money goes to GSA (or any other nonprofit you would like to help out). Please ask your friends to do the same. It adds up fast, and is a great way to help non-profits in this difficult economy.