- published: 25 Aug 2014
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Dr. Allen Hershkowitz is the president and co-founder of the Green Sports Alliance, a non-profit that helps sports teams, leagues and venues enhance their environmental stewardship. Previously, Dr. Hershkowitz served as a Senior Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council for 26 years, from 1988 and 2014.
He is a visiting scholar in the MBA Program of the Presidio Graduate School where he teaches a course on sustainability and sports.
In 2009, Yoga + Joyful Living magazine dubbed him "The Godfather of Greening" for his work on sports and media events.
Dr. Hershkowitz joined the NRDC senior staff in 1988. He led large scale initiatives on critical issues including sustainable development, recycling, forestry, paper industry impacts, mountaintop coal mining, waste incineration, and medical wastes. While at NRDC, he was the director of the Sports and Entertainment Greening Project, the Solid Waste Project and the Paper Industry Project. His work on the Sports Greening Project in 2012 earned the Beyond Sport “Sport and the Environment Award” at a pre-Olympics event in London.