{"id":7170,"date":"2025-10-07T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T00:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hi8lvmqnx7.wpdns.site\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:28:03","slug":"mayor-proclaims-oct-6-2025-as-green-sports-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/mayor-proclaims-oct-6-2025-as-green-sports-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor proclaims Oct. 6, 2025 as Green Sports Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Calgary\u2019s Mayor, Jyoti Gondek, has proclaimed Oct. 6 2025, as Green Sports Day. This proclamation recognizes a partnership between The City of Calgary, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sport Calgary,<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamessportsbank.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Calgary Flames Sports Bank<\/a> and community partners, joining a growing national movement that recognizes the power of sport to build stronger, healthier and more sustainable communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greensportsverts.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Green Sports Day Canada<\/a> was created to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spark conversations about how sports can be part of the solution to climate change.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Share ideas and simple actions to help teams, families, and organizations play in more sustainable ways.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shine a light on the amazing work already happening in Calgary and across Canada to make sports greener and more accessible.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.calgary.ca\/mayor-proclaims-oct-6-2025-as-green-sports-day\/\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:8px;border-top-right-radius:8px;border-bottom-left-radius:8px;border-bottom-right-radius:8px;background-color:#ef3340\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calgary\u2019s Mayor, Jyoti Gondek, has proclaimed Oct. 6 2025, as Green Sports Day. This proclamation recognizes a partnership between The City of Calgary, Sport Calgary, the Calgary Flames Sports Bank and community partners, joining a growing national movement that recognizes the power of sport to build stronger, healthier and more sustainable communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9377,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/9377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportcalgary.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}