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Talking Sustainability: Ecologel
Representatives from industry suppliers expand on what the concept means to their companies and the message they’re trying to convey to superintendents. Rick Irwin President Ecologel Describe what...
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Pillars of the Community
One has hosted 10,000 campers in pup tents; another welcomes snowshoe hikers; one more is working with a retired university president to grow the Monarch butterfly population; and yet another helps to...
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Talking Sustainability: N-Vizion Products Group
Representatives from industry suppliers expand on what the concept means to their companies and the message they’re trying to convey to superintendents. Bill Fair Owner N-Vizion Products Group Describe...
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Poll: Climate Change
John C. Fech, a horticulturist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension, discusses climate change in his latest column. He asks the controversial question whether or not climate change is real,...
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Talking Sustainability
Representatives from industry suppliers expand on what the concept means to their companies and the message they’re trying to convey to superintendents. Oriana Persechini Category Portfolio Manager...
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Worthy Endeavor
These three superintendents took the time to implement sustainable initiatives at their golf courses– and they’re glad they did. Kyle Sweet calls it going “beyond the grass.” Sweet, the certified golf...
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Six Reasons to get Sustainable now
In “Worthy Endeavor,” the superintendents of the Sanctuary Golf Club (Sanibel Island, Florida), Legends Club (Prior Lake, Minnesota) and Metropolitan Golf Links (Oakland, California) shared their...
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Rufty: Humans Behind Climate Change
Maybe you have seen him speak at an industry event. If so, Tom Rufty, the distinguished professor of environmental plant biology at North Carolina State University, probably made an impression on you....
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Under the Weather
Whether or not they believe it is caused by humans, climate change is forcing superintendents to deal with its effects. After getting doused with 9 inches of rain in June, Scott Brickley figured there...
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Superintendent Earns Excellence in IPM Award for Keeping Greens Green
Photo credit: Photo courtesy of Jennifer Grant, Ph.D., New York State IPM Program. Richard Belowski, golf-course superintendent at Battle Island State Park in Fulton, New York, has received an...
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Looking Back on 2015
It’s the same old, tired cliché we hear every year at this time: “I can’t believe the year is almost over.” But it’s also a time of reflection, as 2016 is almost upon us. So we invite you to reflect...
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Golf courses using less water, GCSAA study reports
In positive news for the golf industry, a Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) study indicates water usage on golf courses in 2013 was 21.8 percent lower than in 2005. In 2013,...
View ArticleU.S. Army Golf Courses Commit to Audubon International’s Environmental Program
Audubon International recently announced that all the golf courses in the U.S. Army’s Program for Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation (U.S. Army MWR) will pursue environmental certification...
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The [golf] season has finally come to a close, and I was able to catch up on my reading when I came across your article in the October 2015 issue of Superintendent about Bill Murray. I couldn’t agree...
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John Deere Congratulates Penn State University, Winner of 2016 GCSAA...
John Deere has announced Penn State University as the 2016 winner of the GCSAA Collegiate Turf Bowl. John Deere and the GCSAA awarded the team the traveling trophy and $4,000 first-place prize. At the...
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Sustaining the Soil
“Soil microbial activity.” It is a short phrase that seems to be on the lips of more golf course superintendents when it comes to talking about turf nutrition and plant health. Some superintendents...
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Sustainability: What It Is and What It Isn’t
Dave Davies has garnered a solid reputation for his environmental prowess. So it was no surprise that Davies, the certified golf course superintendent at TPC Stonebrae Country Club in Hayward,...
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Carbon Sequestration and Golf Courses
For the past 15 years, golf architect Andy Staples has been touting the process of carbon sequestration on golf courses as a way to make facilities not only more environmentally friendly, but also as a...
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Worms at Work: Going Behind the Scenes at Worm Power
You’ve heard of hog heaven. Well, this is worm heaven. It’s where worms go to feed on the finest compost. The worms eat and breed, eat and breed, eat and breed and … you get the picture. Where is worm...
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Scott Witte Turns Cantigny Golf Club into Honeybee Haven
Scott Witte stands next to a honeybee hive in a wooded area at Cantigny Golf Club. Witte, the certified golf course superintendent at the course in Wheaton, Illinois, is unfazed while bees swarm around...
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