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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.
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.
Who is Driving the Green on the Korn Ferry TOUR?
The BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by Synnex Corporation and the South Carolina Charities, Inc. are the torchbearers for sustainability on the Korn Ferry TOUR. We provide an insider look on how they are making it happen beginning with their commitment to zero-waste.
Ending with the Beginning in Mind
Recycling is not the end-all solution we want it to be. But it is an incredibly important tool if it is presented as it truly is: an imperfect system in need of an overhaul and a small, introductory first step to creating a more sustainable planet. We review initial steps the golf industry can take to make this happen.
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?
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.
Recycling Confusion is Par for the Course - Definitions, Truths and Trends
Recycling has long been the baseline for living a sustainable life. The reassuring ease of the system and rinse and repeat method of recycling brought peace of mind to our lives and let us feel like we were making an actionable difference in our communities. Unfortunately, that was never really the case.