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Sustainability Spotlight: The 150th Open Championship at “The Home of Golf”
Andre recaps the 150th Open Championship, sharing its sustainability initiatives along with his experience of The Old Course at Saint Andrews.
USGA “Deacon” Maps Golfer Traffic and Guides Resource Management
USGA Deacon can help golf courses provide better golfer experiences while at significantly lower costs to the bottom line and the environment.
Sustainability Spotlight: The 122nd U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.
The U.S. Open is America’s oldest golf championship and operated by America’s oldest governing golf body, the United States Golf Association. It is usually one of, if not THE, toughest tests of golf each year and features 156 of the best golf professionals and amateurs in the world. For our next installment in our Sustainability Spotlight series, we examine America’s national golf championship from our Driving the Green perspective and shed some light on the great things going on behind the scenes at this year’s tournament as well as some of the amazing golf history that has taken place at the host golf course.
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.
Invasive Vegetation Management - A Langston Golf Course Update
Conquering the unmanaged invasive vegetation that lines the border of Langston Golf Course in Washington, D.C. is one of the biggest challenges in my new role as a sustainability consultant for the National Links Trust (NLT). There’s been a lot of learning on the job for me and figuring out how to tame the unruly beasts roaming the edges of this historic municipal golf course is one reason why.
Sustainability Certification Series: Audubon International
This is the first article in a series that will outline the different certifying bodies in the golf and sports industries. These specific organizations are vital to the green sports movement because they provide teams, businesses, and organizations with a blueprint for managing and implementing sustainability focused social, environmental, and economic programs. The first such certifying organization we will cover is Audubon International.
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.
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.