Jul 13, 2026 · 47 min · 26 segments
Climate change is a fact, not a question. If you’re watching the World Cup this summer, you’ll see players facing record breaking heat head-on. As a former player, Ashlyn knows how hard heat is on…
Ashlyn HarrisHost
Madeline OrrGuest
Douglas CasaGuest
So I am a sport ecologist, which means my full time job is thinking about sport and the environments we play in.
And a lot of it is kind of like, you know, it's intuitive to people, right? People play outside.
For most people in North America, our invitation into the outdoors is sport, physical activity and play.
And so for me, I was sitting back 10 years ago thinking this is a good opportunity to talk to people about that environment, whatever it is, whether it's winter sport and that's getting harder or summer sport and we're talking about heat.
I worked in Rio at the Olympics and watched athletes get out of the water with rashes down their legs from contaminated water.
And here we are 10 years later and I'm still having these conversations because It just keeps happening.
So I work with communities impacted by different things, and we figure out how do you adapt to that? And what does it mean whether you're a mom trying to take care of your kid or a coach trying to take care of your team or an athlete trying to perform at the highest level? Yeah.
So I am a sport ecologist, which means my full time job is thinking about sport and the environments we play in.
And a lot of it is kind of like, you know, it's intuitive to people, right? People play outside.
For most people in North America, our invitation into the outdoors is sport, physical activity and play.
And so for me, I was sitting back 10 years ago thinking this is a good opportunity to talk to people about that environment, whatever it is, whether it's winter sport and that's getting harder or summer sport and we're talking about heat.
I worked in Rio at the Olympics and watched athletes get out of the water with rashes down their legs from contaminated water.
And here we are 10 years later and I'm still having these conversations because It just keeps happening.
So I work with communities impacted by different things, and we figure out how do you adapt to that? And what does it mean whether you're a mom trying to take care of your kid or a coach trying to take care of your team or an athlete trying to perform at the highest level? Yeah.
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