Our Sustainable Sports team, led by former collegiate and professional athletes, delivers innovative sustainability strategies in the areas of carbon, energy, water, waste, supply chain, and the built environment for sports teams, leagues, and venues.
Play to Zero Partner of the Green Sports Alliance
KERAMIDA is a proud Play to Zero Partner of the Green Sports Alliance. The Green Sports Alliance is the environmentally-focused trade organization that convenes stakeholders from around the sporting world (teams, leagues, conferences, venues, corporate partners, governmental agencies, athletes, and fans) to promote healthy, sustainable communities where we live and play. We are committed to creating awareness and dedicated to creating meaningful change toward a more sustainable future.
Featured Project
KERAMIDA developed a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction Program for Athlete’s Unlimited (AU), a women’s professional sports league consisting of basketball, lacrosse, softball, and volleyball. The GHG Reduction Program began with a GHG Reduction Plan, outlining emissions sources and evaluating specific yet feasible reduction initiatives.
Sports Sustainability Consulting Services
Our Sustainable Sports Strategies professionals help teams, leagues, and venues save energy, cut waste, and prevent pollution.
We support sports organizations and their stakeholders at every part of their sustainability journey – from taking their first steps in developing an effective sustainability program to disclosing their sustainability performance and advising on green initiatives that create value.
Sustainability Program Development
We help develop, implement, and continually improve your organization’s sustainability program while taking into consideration the needs of all stakeholders. From the communities you play in, to the athletes, fans, leagues, vendors, and sponsors involved, we ensure all key players are considered and prioritized. We do this by identifying material topics, establishing metrics and KPIs for facilities and operations, and developing strategies that add value.
Sustainability Certification Support
Our team of LEED advanced professionals, TRUE Advisors, and ISO 20121 internal auditors have the expertise to lead your venue or event team in the pursuit of a variety of third-party sustainability certifications that exemplify your organization’s environmental leadership in the industry, including:
Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design (LEED):
LEED for Building Design and Construction (BD+C)
LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations and Maintenance (O+M)
Total Resource Use Efficiency (TRUE) Zero Waste
ISO 20121 Sustainable Event Management
Carbon Emissions Measurement
Understanding the climate impacts of your organization, venue, event, or product starts with a robust, quantitative measurement of carbon emissions. Our carbon accounting experts help you accurately measure your carbon footprint, whether that be an organizational or facility-level Scope 1, 2, and 3 carbon inventory or a product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
Carbon Emissions Goal Setting & Reduction Strategy Development
We provide support in setting your carbon emissions reduction goal and developing the reduction strategy to achieve it. Our team works closely with each organization’s subject matter experts to understand facility operations, supply chain, and community involvement in order to develop feasible reduction strategies to reach your climate-related goals.
Sports Entertainment / Event Sustainability
Our team helps you identify the environmental impacts of your event and develop a management approach and goals for continual improvement to lessen the strain on resources, local infrastructure, utilities, and communities where hosted. Through KERAMIDA’s proprietary FastTrack® process, our team of ISO management system professionals can help your organization develop and implement the ISO 20121: Sustainable Events Management System.
Sustainability Reporting
Our reporting experts help you provide transparency to your stakeholders through public reporting on your sustainability initiatives. We create a reporting roadmap that helps your organization prioritize and engage with stakeholders on the content of your report, navigate the various reporting frameworks, gather and manage the data that will appear in your report, and develop and design the finished report.
Meet Our Team Leaders
With former collegiate and professional athletes leading our Sustainable Sports Strategies team and on staff, KERAMIDA shares the drive, commitment, and unique perspective of a true player. Additionally, being a WBENC-Certified and NAWBO-Certified Woman-Owned business, we are passionate about supporting women in sustainable sports, whether from the player, coach, team, league, organization, venue, or fanbase perspective.
Maddy Osswald, MBA
True Advisor
Sr. Sustainability Engineer
Maddy Osswald is a Senior Sustainability Engineer with expertise in greenhouse gas emissions accounting, science-based targets, and emissions reduction goal setting. With a heavy compliance background, Maddy excels in Sustainability reporting while maximizing client relationships to achieve the highest level. She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration as well as a bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Ecological Engineering, both from Purdue University. Maddy is a certified TRUE Advisor.
During her time at Purdue, Maddy was a captain of the Division I women’s soccer team where she served as a four-year starter. During her fifth and final season, Maddy broke the all-time goals, assists, and points records. Maddy earned First Team All-Big Ten, Big Ten Player of the Year, and Second Team All-American. She spent the following two years playing professionally in the Netherlands (PSV Eindhoven) and Spain (Zaragoza CFF). After a career-ending injury, Maddy returned stateside to begin working for KERAMIDA where she was able to merge her two passions – sports and sustainability. She is currently a dual player-coach for the USL W-League Indy Eleven.
Erica Skowron, M.S.
LEED GA, TRUE Advisor
Sr. Sustainability Analyst
Erica Skowron is a Senior Sustainability Analyst with expertise in greenhouse gas emissions accounting, product life cycle assessments, setting emissions reduction targets, and helping clients across multiple sectors in creating reduction strategies. Erica also has experience in the development of sustainability reports. She holds a master’s degree in Sustainability Management from American University as well as a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Environmental Studies from American University. Erica is a LEED Green Associate and a certified TRUE Advisor.
During her time at American, Erica was a member of the Division I women’s lacrosse team, where she served as a five-year starting attacker contributing to program records in assists and single-game points, and earning Patriot League Academic Honor Roll selection each season. In her free time, Erica coaches a youth girl’s lacrosse program to spread her passion for the game on the west coast where she resides. At a young age, Erica developed a deep concern for the impact that humans were having on the environment and has dedicated her career to helping organizations reduce their climate impact so that future generations can continue to play sports on a healthy planet.
What our clients are saying:
“We did it! Thanks for all your support. This is such a big moment for our company, and you made it possible! I look forward to working with you on even bigger moments ahead.”
“It has been an absolute pleasure working with Team KERAMIDA!”
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KERAMIDA offers a wide variety of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) services to clients worldwide, including multi-facility industrial clients, industrial associations, law firms, and state organizations. Our experienced team of GHG experts provide carbon footprint evaluations, GHG inventories, GHG monitoring plans, and training.
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