X games environmentality

Grease created from food in the staff catering tent will be picked up by a local company that will manufacture the cooking grease into biodiesel fuel.

Waste will be handled through an innovative three-stream sorting program to separate recyclables and biodegradable materials from trash. In addition, X Games will be setting up programs to recycle used office paper, cardboard, electronic waste and construction materials. The event is scheduled for August , with the surfing competition to be held July , in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. Winter Games The Winter X Games is held in a snowy mountain environment and features winter sports such as snowboarding, skiing, and snowmobiling.

Competitors in those sports face off in a variety of different ways. In Skier-X also called ski cross and Snowboarder-X also called boardercross , athletes do not race individually, the way they do in most sports competitions. Athletes in Skier-X and Snowboarder-X race head-to-head, going down the mountain four—at—a time. The courses feature a variety of terrain, including jumps, moguls, and bank turns. In a Winter X Games event called slopestyle , skiers or snowboarders individually choose their own route through a course with many of the same features and obstacle s as Skier-X and Snowboarder-X.

But instead of trying to get down the course as fast as possible, they use the features to perform tricks and are judged on how well they perform them. There are also competitions to see which athlete can perform the best trick or get the most air , or height, off a jump. Travis Rice, who learned to ski near his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is a snowboarder who competes in slopestyle events. The X Games snowmobiling competitions include Snocross , in which competitors race on snowmobiles around a track with steep jumps and obstacles.

Snocross competitions are held outside the X Games, too, with the world championships held in Falun, Sweden. The Summer X Games is held in a warm environment and includes competitions in skateboarding, BMX biking, motorcycling, rally car racing, and surfing. Skateboarders compete in the half pipe, a hollow semi-circle made of concrete.

Athletes skate up and down two opposing ramps and perform tricks when they reach the top. There is also a competition for the best trick and most air off a jump. In "street" competitions, skateboarders skate around a park of obstacles and perform tricks.

In addition to having an outstanding sports career, Hawk has a successful skateboarding video game series. BMX bikers also compete on a half pipe and a street course. They also perform tricks. Anthony Napolitan of Youngstown, Ohio, for example, landed the first double-front flip on a bicycle at Summer X Games 15 in Motorbike riders have similar events, along with a " supercross " race around a dirt obstacle course with steep jumps.

Snowboarder Chris Klug's foundation also was represented, highlighting the Donor Dudes program, which increases awareness about lifesaving organ and tissue donation. Check out the video to learn more about the Sustainability efforts at this year's Winter X Games. This program practices waste minimization, using environmentally conscious products such as plates, napkins, and cups, as well as pollution prevention.

One of ESPNs ultimate goals is to have all items used during a meal able to be recycled or composted. All serviceware items for attendees, staff, and athletes alike are composed of renewable and compostable materials including a plastic created from corn, a fiber made with sugarcane, and recycled paper 3.

XGE has sponsored bins at the games that are clearly marked into three sections: recycling, compost, and trash whose components are sent to and processed at the Pitkin County Solid Waste Center.

This is the first large-scale public event in Pitkin County to send its waste to the waste center rather than to a landfill. During the Winter Games, for example, more than 24, pounds of compostables were saved from their previous fates at the landfill 3. The Green Team collected data on what is actually deemed as trash by spectators and athletes by weighing and sorting all waste from the X Games. X Games and ESPN intend to improve in the future through community engagement and education and have already begun by initiating their Corporate Citizenship tent at this years games 2.

In addition, all Roaring Fork Transportation Authority RFTA vehicles used to transport spectators to and from the Games are powered by biofuels which emits fewer toxins than would otherwise contribute to poorer air quality and climate degradation in the Roaring Fork Valley 3.

Water use and water rights are a significant and charged issue in the valley already, and Buttermilk Mountain mitigates this concern by using a base of piled and compacted dirt in the foot walls of the Superpipe rather than the traditional twenty million gallons of water in man-made snow 3.

Aspen Skiing Company is making its own progress in making Winter X Games more sustainable by beginning to replace older snow-making guns with newer and far more efficient models in order to decrease greenhouse gases. The old guns operated at 96 kilowatts, or about the yearly total of a dishwasher or of a washing machine.