This was the year when the Olympic organizing committee vowed to go green.  And many of those bronze, silver, and gold medals, are — yes — green.

According to the UK’s Guardian, “The gold, silver and bronze medallions slung around winning athletes’ necks as they step on to the winners’ podium at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games could well be made from the guts of an old Belgian computer.

“The manufacturer of medals for this Olympics is for the first time incorporating token amounts of recycled material into the medals. Medals historically have been made of freshly mines ores.

“The innovation – though largely symbolic – was directed by an Olympic organising committee which had vowed to put on the greenest games ever, raising the bar for London in 2012. “Vancouver Winter Olympics go green with recycled metals for medals ..

Here is a Skype interview with Planet Forward and VC at Vancouver

“Planet Forward host, Frank Sesno, talks via Skype with Jack Hidary, venture capitalist and founder of the Freedom Prize. Hidary discusses Vancouver’s efforts to host a ‘green’ Olympics and talks about what other cities could do to similarly reduce their carbon footprint.  An entrepreneur reports from the “Green Olympics”

Copyright 2010 Rita Watson