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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.
Muni Spotlight: Florida’s First Reversible 9-Hole Golf Layout
Sailfish Sands Golf Course features Florida’s first reversible 9-hole golf layout and an all-around operation that matches the muni ideal: high tech, high quality, low impact, and low cost to the average golfer.
Driving Sustainable Change in Golf and Hospitality
Kathy Sue McGuire started the first office recycling program in the State of Florida in 1991. For over a decade, Kathy worked for PGA National Resort (home of the Honda Classic). In that same timespan, she founded her consultancy now known as 3 Pillar Solutions, which helps clients meet sustainable development goals while improving efficiencies and making a profit.
Across the Pond: Australia’s First 100% Organic Golf Course
We spoke with Andrew Glen, Superintendent at KDV Sports Complex on the Gold Coast of Australia to learn more about his one-of-a-kind, 100% organic golf course and how to make organic golf scalable across the industry.
Sustainability Spotlight - The 43rd Ryder Cup @ Whistling Straits
Nothing stokes the fire within a sports fan’s heart more than playing against a rival, where every aspect of the game is magnified by the added desire to not just win, but to beat the snot out of your opponent. For this edition of the Sustainability Spotlight, we turn our attention to focus on the sustainability issues involved in golf’s biggest rivalry, the Ryder Cup.
Behind the Ropes: At This Week’s Korn Ferry Tour Finals at Hillcrest Country Club
We go ‘Behind the Ropes’ with Parker Cohn of Performance Resource Management at the Korn Ferry Tour’s Boise Open to uncover the strategies and solutions he is implementing to provide Hillcrest Country Club with premium agronomic services.
Sustainability Spotlight - PGA TOUR FedExCup Playoffs
Over the next three weeks, the PGA TOUR 2020-21 season will come to a close with the postseason tournament series known as the FedExCup Playoffs. So for the next installment of our Sustainability Spotlight series, we shed light on and dive into the sustainability successes and struggles of each of the three tournaments within this end of the year playoff series.
Agroforestry and Golf: Maximizing Land Use Efficiency for Golf Operations
Afforestation sequesters 4.7 tons of CO2 per hectare per year and is one of the best proven methods of carbon capture. So how can golf and the agroforestry industry collaborate on carbon capture initiatives? We sat down with Audrey Epp Smith and Harrison Greene of Propagate Ventures to learn more.
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.