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Environmental Stewardship STEMs from Golf’s Status as a Living Classroom
Langston Golf Course in Washington, D.C. hosted a GCSAA First Green event in conjunction with National Golf Day. The program is an innovative educational initiative that combines golf and environmental stewardship to provide hands-on learning experiences for students. Through field trips to local golf courses, students get the opportunity to learn about various aspects of golf course management and environmental sustainability. They participate in activities that showcase the tools and methods used by golf course superintendents to manage golf courses while emphasizing the importance of environmental conservation and the role golf courses play in preserving natural resources, managing ecosystems, and promoting biodiversity.
Sustainability Certification Series: Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
The GRI Standards are internationally recognized as the leading guide for sustainability reporting. They require rigorous and comprehensive disclosures to yield a host of external and internal benefits to organizations reporting on their social and environmental impacts.
What is Pee-Cycling?
Pee-cycling is an innovation that diverts urine before it joins a combined waste stream (urine, feces, and chemical treatment), safely reclaims the nutrients from our urine, and then applies those nutrients toward a productive use (agriculture, turf grass management, et cetera).
The Alchemy of Waste to Liquid Gold
Ur-ine our thoughts, circular pee-conomy!
Pee-cycling is a part of what the Soil Factory Network and Cornell professor Dr. Rebecca Nelson refer to as the “circular bionutrient economy”, which promises an old but bold solution to closing the loop between the production and disposal of key nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus. In simplest terms, what now harms the environment might instead save it.
Learning from Banyan Tree’s 25-Year Journey in Sustainability
We sit down with Steve Newman, Group Sustainability Director of Banyan Tree Hotels & Resorts, to discuss how a sustainable business can align differing stakeholder needs in a direction that is cohesive to the organization’s core values and purpose in both the short-term (25 years) and long-term (250 years).