Save Pond Hockey
| Founded | 2014 |
|---|---|
| Type | Non-governmental organization, non-profit organization |
| Purpose | Environmentalism, Climate change |
| Headquarters | Helsinki, Finland |
Region served | Worldwide |
President | Svante Suominen |
Volunteers | 9 |
| Website | Save Pond Hockey |
Save Pond Hockey (SPH) is a non-profit environmental organization that raises awareness about the issues of climate change through ice hockey. It was founded in 2015, and the organization is based out of Helsinki in Finland.
Operations
SPH organizes outdoor hockey tournaments to raise awareness and funds to fight climate change. Via its SPHx tournaments, the charity has raised over 20,000€ for different climate change groups as of 11th October 2018.:[1]
SPHx Tournaments
Since 2015, over six tournaments have been organized in Finland[2]
2015
- Date: 8th February 2015
- Venue: Kallio outdoor ice rink, Helsinki, Finland.
- Teams: 16
- Players: 130.
- Donations to: Myrskyvaroitus.
2016
- Date: 6th February 2016
- Venue: Kallio outdoor ice rink, Helsinki, Finland.
- Teams: 24
- Players: 200.
- Donations to: Hiilivapaa Suomi.
- Notes: Special participation in the tournament by Finnish actor and musician Reino Nordin.
2017
Mikkeli (co-organized with Mikkelin Jukurit[3]):
- Date: 21st January 2017
- Venue: Kenkävero, Mikkeli, Finland.
- Teams: 12
- Players: 100.
- Donations to: Suomen Luonnonsuojeluliitto
- Notes: Special participation in the tournament by former NHL player Ville Nieminen.
Helsinki:
- Date: 11th February 2017
- Venue: Kallio outdoor ice rink, Helsinki, Finland.
- Teams: 24
- Players: 200.
- Donations to: Hiilivapaa Suomi.
- Notes: Special participation in the tournament by the President of Finland Sauli Niinistö.[4][5].
- Date: 11th March 2017
- Venue: Koulunkadun Kenttä, Tampere, Finland.
- Teams: 9
- Players: 70.
- Donations to: Hiilivapaa Suomi.
- Notes: Special participation in the tournament by former NHL player and all-time leading scorer in Finland's SM-liiga Janne Ojanen.
2018
- Date: 3rd February 2018
- Venue: Kallio outdoor ice rink, Helsinki, Finland.
- Teams: 28
- Players: 230.
- Donations to: Hiilivapaa Suomi.
- Date: 9th February 2018
- Venue: Kenkävero, Mikkeli, Finland.
- Teams: TBC.
- Players: TBC.
- Donations to: TBC.
Awards
Save Pond Hockey was announced as a finalist in the Maapalloliiga (Earth League) competition organised by the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra.[9]. The Maapalloliiga competition's objective is to find solutions that inspire and activate people to live more environmentally friendly.[10]
Media
Save Pond Hockey has been featured in a news article in Helsingin Sanomat and a news program on MTV3 news in Finland following the participation of the President of Finland Sauli Niinistö in the 2017 Helsinki SPHx tournament.[11][12]. Save Pond Hockey has also been the subject of articles in Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tages-Anzeiger.[13][14]. In 2018, collaborating with artist Janne Käpylehto, Save Pond Hockey hosted the world's first rotating ice hockey game. This was achieved by having a free floating ice rink cut into frozen ice of Töölönlahti Bay (in Töölö) and rotating during play.[15][16][17]
External links
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- Official Site
- Save Pond Hockey on Facebook
- Save Pond Hockey on Twitter
- Save Pond Hockey on Instagram
References
- ↑ "Save Pond Hockey - Team".
- ↑ "Save Pond Hockey - Tournaments".
- ↑ "Pelastetaan Pipolätkä -Pipolätkäturnaus ilmastonmuutosta vastaan!". 2017-02-11.
- ↑ "Presidentti Niinistö maalasi pipolätkäturnauksessa". 2017-02-11.
- ↑ "HSTV: 2017 Save Pond Hockey". 2017-02-18.
- ↑ "Kuka on Savon pipolätkäkingi?". 2018-02-10.
- ↑ "Mikkelissä pelataan pipolätkää ilmastonmuutosta vastaan". 2018-02-09.
- ↑ "Miehet pelasivat pipolätkää Kenkäverossa ilmastonmuutoksen torjumiseksi". 2018-02-09.
- ↑ "Save Pond Hockey ry is one of the Maapalloliiga finalists". 2018-09-30.
- ↑ "Sitra Maapalloliiga". 2018-10-11.
- ↑ "Presidentti Niinistö esitteli lätkätaitojaan Brahenkentällä Kalliossa - "Pelatessa unohtaa kaiken eikä näe tai kuule mitään muuta"". 2017-02-11. soft hyphen character in
|title=at position 36 (help) - ↑ "Kevennykset - Vuodet 2015-2018 - Ilmastonmuutosta vastustettiin pipolätkäturnauksen parissa".
- ↑ "Wenn eine Sportart schmilzt".
- ↑ "Wenn eine Sportart schmilzt".
- ↑ "Maailman ehkä ensimmäisessä pyörivässä lätkäturnauksessa".
- ↑ "Töölönlahdella pelattiin presidentillistä pipolätkää pyörivän jääkarusellin päällä".
- ↑ "The world's first "rotating" ice hockey game".
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