This interview was conducted by Lew Blaustein, who writes at the intersection of green and sports for his GreenSportsBlog.
The failure of Brazilian and Rio authorities to live up to the promises made in their bid to host the 2016 Summer Olympics to suitably clean the unhealthy, polluted, potentially dangerous-to-human bodies of water that will host Olympic sailing, rowing and the triathlon swim, has been a high profile, legitimate, and festering environmental story in the run-up to the August 5 Opening Ceremony. But there is another Rio environmental story that also needs to be told: And that is how Dow, the Official Carbon Partner of the Rio Olympics, is using advanced chemistry to make these Games far cleaner and greener than they would’ve been, problems at the sailing venue and elsewhere notwithstanding.