A community-led team of primarily volunteers who joined as members and now work our socks off to make a difference.
Join their quest to take the (carbon) footprint out of running.
“We are living in a climate emergency – we can’t run away from that – and while we all absolutely love running, it can be rubbish for our environment.”
One of the co founders Darren Evans wrote the COP26 (Runners against Climate Change) ode, which got key environmentally aware runners, involved, like Jasmin Paris, Jim Mann, Taz Babiker, Sarah Ryan, Charlie Harpur, Finlay Wild and Dan Lawson.
The video was launched ahead of COP26 where some of the co founders went to Glasgow to support the protest groups.
After the disappointing outcome of COP26 The Green Runners was launched on World Earth Day April 22, 2022, for ‘runners who love the environment and Environmentalists who love to run’.
The Green Runners Badge
“We were really keen not to add more T shirts to the ongoing over production of race and club T shirts, so we created the TGR’s badge.”
People who become a member and made a pledge earn a badge produced by Rerun Clothing, made of old race T’s.
“We have numerous FKT and record breaking runners in our team but we also have runners who work as sustainability managers and carbon engineers. This really helps us get a broad view of how what we need to focus on.”
“Our fundamentals and mission are the 4 pillars that the co founders created. Above anything else this is why we are here:
How we move.
How we kit up.
How we eat.
How we speak out.
It was agreed that we would not be supported by any business or corporate brand, so we asked anyone who joined us to pay a small membership fee to cover costs of our website etc.
All we ask is that you make an action based pledge or pledges on either 1 or all 4 of the pillars.
One of our co founders Jasmin Paris made the very first video pledge on Twitter as part of our launch. In June 2022 Jasmin dropped all affiliations with any running brand and now runs solely for The Green Runners.”