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Beemats: Healing Golf Course Ponds and Lakes through Floating Wetlands
“Beemats” – also referred to as “floating wetlands” – are a bio-mimicking technology that cleans polluted bodies of water by taking excess nutrients that seep into ponds and lakes and turns them into harvestable crops or biomass. What are the benefits, costs and how might this technology transform golf course sustainability?
Seven Surprising Solutions for Golf’s Water Usage
For the foreseeable future, golf courses will face increasing pressure on reducing the usage of water (especially freshwater), maximizing the efficiency of land use, and building resilience for drought and flooding (as a result of increasingly irregular weather patterns). Here are seven surprising solutions to reframe those challenges through exciting design opportunities.
Biochar: How Golf Courses Can Mimic Natural Grasslands to Save 30% in Water Consumption
Can the secret ingredient to fertile grasslands be the key to golf courses creating engineered carbon sinks? Will Bowden of New Zealand Turf Management Solutions seems to think so.