Sustainability Spotlight: March 2025
Free sustainability and carbon training courses, join the Great UK WaterBlitz in April, check your club’s flood risk, and a new case study about decarbonising energy for an off-grid boathouse
British Association of Sustainability in Sport – FREE courses
There are some places on free training courses in March (some online and some in person) that representatives from affiliated clubs are entitled to go on. These include:
- General introduction to sustainability
- Measuring emissions
- Carbon literacy training.
Places are booking up fast so register soon!
Join the Great UK WaterBlitz and fight for healthy freshwater!
If you’d like to ‘dip your toe’ into water testing, then the Great UK WaterBlitz SpringWatch opens on 4 March for you to sign up to receive a testing kit. The WaterBlitz itself runs from 25-28 April 2025.
Check the long term flood risk for an area in England
The Environment Agency recently reissued their flood risk mapping, which looks at river, surface and groundwater flooding – so individual clubs can have a look at what their local risk is.
Solar panels bring light to off-grid boathouse
A case study from the Sheffield rowing clubs who, with no mains electricity in their boathouses, had long relied on carbon-intensive generators… until they switched to a renewable solution.
