Today sees the launch of the Cooldown Network’s new book of short stories, Sporting Tales, a playful and serious reimagining of sport in the face of the climate and nature emergency. From champion international athletes to leading global campaigners, writers and academic experts, these stories explore where the biggest challenge of our era tackles the world’s most popular pastime, sport. These tales may be about the games we all love to play, but they are also about matters of life and death.
What can sport do to stop climate breakdown blowing the final
whistle? These Sporting Tales invite us to see how we can all play a better game.
https://www.cooldownclimate.org/latest/introducing-the-sporting-tales-book
“An uplifting and important collection of tales that epitomise the “think global, act local”
approach to tackling systemic societal and environmental challenges through the lens ofsport. A must read.”
Claire Poole, founder, the Sport Positive Summit
“Story is about the very patterns of life. We recognise the narrative arcs of daring tales, the reticence to change habits at first, the heroic journey when prompted, the hope that follows action, the evil antagonist, the path back home But sport is a bit different, the losses are inevitable, even for the good. And they happen a lot. Sport is central to modern culture, and these Sporting Tales are a fine, wise and fabulous insight into how sport can change the world, and how it too mirrors those very economic and social structures in their best and worst ways.”
Jules Pretty, Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex and author of The Low-Carbon Good Life