Posts by Lars-Otto Bjerkeng
WPG in the UK
We Play Green had a great weekend connecting with some terrific green football initiatives in the UK. The weekend started off with a very good meeting with the Forest Green Rovers and their chairman, Dale Vince. There were many great conversations about how the world’s greenest football club and the world’s first player-driven environmental foundation…
Read MoreMorten on Lindmo
Our founder Morten Thorsby was a guest on Norway’s biggest talk show, Lindmo. Sharing his journey of becoming a pro footballer and climate and environmental activist, Morten got to explain how football can help save the planet and mankind. Check out the broadcast by clicking here
Read MoreWPG at COP 27
Our first-ever COP was a success! Along with our Planet Partner, Bellona, WPG had the privilege of going to COP 27 in Sharm el Sheikh to present a panel on the importance of creating support for the Green Shift, and how football can provide the roadmap to doing so. The discussion was on how players,…
Read MoreSofie and Morten on Sky Sports
This Sky Sports Documentary unites the voices of Institutions like UEFA, non-profits such as Sports Positive, football clubs like the Forrest Green Rovers, and pro players Morten Thorsby, Sofie Junge Pedersen, and Chris Smalling in highlighting the existential threat that affects football as we know it, climate change. Our #2-wearing Team captains touched on the…
Read MoreMorten wins BBC prize
Our Founder Morten Thorsby has won the “Young Athlete of the Year” Award for the first ever BBC Green Sports Awards! This award ceremony was the first of its kind, and help held at the Sports Positive Summit at the Wembley stadium in London. BBC Sport created the Green Sports Awards to “draw attention to…
Read MoreWPG wins in Rome
We Play Green are the proud winners of the “Leader in Social Responsibility” award for this year’s Social Football Summit in Rome. This category was based on We Play Green’s efforts to amplify the reach and influence of professional players and to mobilize a green shift through the global football family. Present at the…
Read MoreChristian at Climate House
The Klimahuset is a climate exhibition that presents up-to-date climate, nature, the environment or sustainability knowledge fr the whole family “It was incredibly nice to see the Environment Agency’s Climate House. It was an educational visit where I learned more about the impact we have on the climate and how we can solve it, which…
Read MoreEmilie at UEFA
Click here to watch the panel Our Team Captain Emilie Bølviken was a panelist at UEFA’s circular economy guidelines launch. Emilie’s participation brought a player’s perspective to the conversation around circularity within European football and how this can set the standard for the rest of the global football ecosystem. This event was held at the…
Read MoreSampdoria #2 Community
Sampdoria fan club Voltaggio is set to hold an auction of used football garments with donations from Ex Samp players Morten Thorsby and Mikkel Damsgaard. WPG’s #2Community aims to normalize using #2nd hand garments in order to create the sustainable attitudes and actions to save the planet from further environmental and climactic disasters. The funds…
Read MoreSofie presents climate change to Juve
Despite being injured, our #2-wearing Team Captain is still putting in major effort to make an impact off the pitch. To her fellow teammates, Sofie presented the fundamentals of the crisis we find ourselves in, what heavy-polluting countries and organizations must do to solve this, and what daily, individual actions can do to solve this.…
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