Allen Hershkowitz

[1][2] Hershkowitz is currently Environmental Science Advisor to the New York Yankees, the first role of its kind in professional sports,[3] as well as Environmental Advisor to the NBA,[4] and Co-Chair of the WELL Health-Safety Rating for Facility Operations and Management of Sports and Entertainment Venues, created by the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI).

[6] At an NRDC staff retreat in 2004, board member Robert Redford suggested that the NRDC establish more of a presence at professional sporting events; Hershkowitz told a reporter from Mother Jones: "We were trying to figure out how to reach out to untraditional allies, and Redford says to us, 'You know, if you want to meet Americans, you’ve got to go to a baseball game or a football game.

[9] Similarly, The Recording Academy asked the NRDC for help greening the Grammy Awards starting in 2008, and Hershkowitz led that effort as well.

"[19] In Episode 1 of GreenSportsPod, Host Lew Blaustein said that Hershkowitz was "singularly instrumental" in creating the environmental programs at MLB, the NBA, the NHL, and MLS.

[27] In December 2016 Sport and Sustainability International was formally launched; Hershkowitz was a member of its organizing committee, along with four other founding directors.

"[29] On January 27, 2019, a Holocaust Remembrance Day public reading of Hershkowitz’s memoir “Finding My Father’s Auschwitz File” took place in NYC at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXVo92EzTS0&t=14s&ab_channel=SheenTalks[30] In October 2019, Hershkowitz received the Green Shovel Award from The Center for Discovery at the 2019 Michael Ritchie Big Barn Event for a Sustainable Future.

[31][32] One month later, in November 2019, Hershkowitz received a Townsend Harris Medal from his alma mater, The City College of New York, which are awarded for "recognition of outstanding postgraduate achievement in their chosen fields.