Mississauga Braves Hockey: Community Champions

As a whole, the community is going to be taking simple but effective actions, like carpooling to practices, washing uniforms in cold water, and avoiding idling. Think of it this way: If just one player takes these simple actions consistently throughout the year, he can save the equivalent in greenhouse gases of taking one home off the grid for 6 whole months-imagine the savings this community can achieve if 500 members all participate!

The way it works is that we have set up each team as a group in our database, so when players, coaches and parents sign up on The Good Life website and add their names to the appropriate team, their simple actions can be quantified, and we can retrieve the team’s GHG savings as a whole. I can see some big competitions starting amongst the teams to have the most people signed up, as well as to be the team taking the most actions leading up to the greatest number of GHGs saved!

This is our FIRST hockey association in Canada participating in The Good Life, and we hope that others will be inspired by the Braves to take action in their own community. I’ll keep you updated about how their community is doing, and how we are working together to implement different sustainable activities into their hockey season. Wanna know more about the Braves? Visit their website for more information http://www.mississaugabraves.com/index.php

Joanne Adair