(ATR) LOCOG’s environmental practices could become a standard for the Olympics, and worldwide environmental rejuvenation efforts.
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David Stubbs, head of LOCOG sustainability says one of the environmental legacies for the Games has been the adoption of sustainability efforts by the IOC and other event organizing groups.
"For the Olympic Movement, this is part of a very exciting journey we’ve been on," he said.
"We’ve been working very closely with the IOC on helping to improve some of the technical manuals and the research around the Olympic Games impact study, transfer of knowledge for Rio and the future host cities.
"Some of the methods and processes that we’re adopting I can see already are being picked up or fed in to some of the processes that the IOC are going to build."
"But the principles of events, the people traveling to them, providing the show, all those are principles which we’ve laid out and lots of learnings are coming from which can help influence the wider events sector."
The key part of London’s
sustainability program is The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Before the Games, the site in east London was an industrial wasteland with a polluted river coursing through the middle. Soil was so poor from decades of neglect that the soil had to artificially created before anything could be planted. The park regeneration is believed to be the largest soil creation project ever.
John Armitt, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, the agency charged with delivering London’s Olympic venues says 4000 trees, 7,400 plants and reclaimed eight kilometers of waterways.
LOCOG sustainability ambassador Tim Smit says the park will be a lesson that is applicable worldwide.
"This is a real symbol of hope for some of the crap-est places you live," he told reporters on a tour of Olympic Park.
"There is no such thing as a place that cannot be redeemed. That’s why the experiments that have been done here are important--they are exportable. This will have lasting legacy because what’s been done has been monitored and mapped and shared with the world."
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Written and photographed by Ed Hula III.
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