{"id":232557,"date":"2026-03-04T14:10:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/inside-the-push-to-make-ice-rinks-sustainable"},"modified":"2026-03-04T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T20:10:17","slug":"inside-the-push-to-make-ice-rinks-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/inside-the-push-to-make-ice-rinks-sustainable","title":{"rendered":"Inside the push to make ice rinks sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-push-to-make-ice-rinks-sustainable.webp\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stefania Impellizzeri, a sustainable-materials chemist at Toronto Metropolitan University, is trying to make ice rinks more efficient and sustainable by fine-tuning water chemistry and rink-related materials.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Rinks use energy, water, and refrigerants, and they create microplastics. People are trying to reduce this footprint by <a href=\"https:\/\/brnw.ch\/staffDirectory\/Prachi-Patel.html\" rel=\"author\" class=\"\"> Prachi Patel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stefania Impellizzeri, a sustainable-materials chemist at Toronto Metropolitan University, is trying to make ice rinks more efficient and sustainable by fine-tuning water chemistry and rink-related materials. Rinks use energy, water, and refrigerants, and they create microplastics. People are trying to reduce this footprint by Prachi Patel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}