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Sustainability Spotlight - Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games - Golf Competition
With the 2021 Open Championship written in the record books, the golf world’s focus begins to shift to the Far East as Kasumigaseki Country Club prepares to host the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Golf Competition. In this sustainability spotlight, we examine the championship from a sustainability lens and a summary of who’s playing (let’s go Team USA!) and how they got there.
Sustainability Spotlight: The 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s
This week the golfing spotlight shifts across the pond for professional golf’s final major championship of the year, the 149th Open Championship at Royal St. George’s in Sandwich, Kent, England, golf’s oldest and most international major championship. Much has changed since Royal St. George’s last held the Open in 2011, including a dedication to sustainability and a return to how things looked over a century ago.
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?
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).
4 Ways WM Phoenix Open Showcases Climate Action Leadership
The WM Phoenix Open - the world’s largest zero waste event - joined the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework in 2019, becoming the first golf tournament to join the landmark voluntary initiative. Here’s four ways how they show framework leadership as early adopters in the golf industry.
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.
Setting the Par with the “Greenest Show on Grass”
The golf industry need not look further than the first tee to find one of the world’s leading sustainability champions, the PGA TOUR’s WM Phoenix Open. Recognized as one of the five oldest tournaments on the TOUR (the first Phoenix Open was in 1932) and annual host to over 700,000 fans, title sponsor WM has led the Phoenix Open to be the world’s largest zero waste event.
Bee the Change - An Earth Day 2021 Special Report
At least 35% of the food we eat is directly dependent on the pollination services of bees. With their numbers in decline, might a symbiotic relationship with golf be the change needed to restore their numbers?
Is Biochar “Shovel-Ready”? Unpacking Key Facts
We continue our exploration into biochar and unpack the key facts beneath the surface of this soil-amending bio-filter.
How Duffers Could Save the Planet
Here’s a thought for how the golf industry might rapidly and seamlessly “go lower on the carbon scorecard” – or in other words, improve its carbon footprint: What if every divot came with the opportunity to improve soil and sequester carbon?