Good on Steve Nash and Shaq, the Portland Trailblazers, the Nets and Planet Green for making the NBA’s Green Week a yearlong effort in bringing the competitive spirit and fun of sports to bettering our planet for the next generation—and, more than any green fair or expo, preaching beyond the choir.

Lead Video:

Two-time MVP (and Canadian) Steve Nash goes Green—getting solar on top of the…Suns…arena! And, he joins Habitat for Humanity to help provide solar-powered homes (in sunny AZ, appropriately) for the underpriveleged. “Change the Mentality”…and he walks his talk, going carless in NYC when many lazy sports stars are chauffered 24/7:

Channing Frye (and Bill Walton, way back) is a Green hero. “Information is Power.” 70% of Portland’s waste is kept out of the landfill? Scorrre!

Louis Amundson rides his big, long bike to work—and boy does he work: