PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Green Sports Alliance (Alliance) introduced updates to its annual business awards, offered on the sixteenth Annual Green Sports Alliance Summit. The awards have fun management, innovation, and influence on the intersection of sports activities, sustainability, and social accountability.
A spotlight of this 12 months’s program is the inaugural Bill Walton Global Champion Award, created to honor the extraordinary legacy of Bill Walton and acknowledge people who embody his lifelong dedication to environmental advocacy, social fairness, and the facility of sports activities to drive constructive international change.
Bill Walton’s legacy was bigger than life–on the court docket and past. A Hall of Famer, broadcaster, and outspoken environmental champion, Walton used his voice, platform, and fervour to encourage motion and problem each the sports activities business and society to assume greater about their accountability to the planet and to each other.
The Bill Walton Global Champion Award shall be offered yearly to a trailblazer who, like Walton, leverages affect and motion to construct a radically greener, extra inclusive future. The award displays Green Sports Alliance’s mission to harness the cultural energy of sports activities to promote wholesome, sustainable communities the place we dwell, work, and play.
Nominations for the Bill Walton Global Champion Award are open by February 28, 2026. The Alliance invitations the worldwide sports activities and sustainability group to determine people whose work exemplifies daring management, environmental stewardship, and a dedication to fairness and justice.
Nominate a Sustainability Champion: https://forms.gle/s6L2cmZok7hY4MpNA
At this 12 months’s Summit, Green Sports Alliance can even honor excellence throughout leagues, groups, and venues by the annual Play to Zero awards. New, extra particular classes will acknowledge investments in renewable vitality and water replenishment, in addition to enhancements in vitality effectivity and water effectivity upgrades. The Alliance can even acknowledge organizations with externally verified or licensed knowledge by a brand new Verified Category. Sports members of the Alliance are inspired to apply for Play to Zero Awards by March third utilizing this kind: https://forms.gle/TTf5bDUN7A3QYt6P7
At the sixteenth Annual Green Sports Alliance Summit in Cleveland, May 5-7, 2026, the Alliance appears to be like ahead to honoring those that dwell inexperienced–and are shaping a greater future by sports activities. Register to attend: https://whova.com/portal/registration/T9-REZNaiw4xpgWFwBTM/?source=tcc3akjm
About Green Sports Alliance
Green Sports Alliance leverages the cultural and market affect of sports activities to promote wholesome, sustainable communities the place we dwell, work, and play.
SOURCE Green Sports Alliance
