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Golf and the Environment: How Green is Golf?
Golf Digest Magazine explores whether golf is green in this month's issue. John Barton, in his article "How Green is Golf?", identifies core problems with golf courses -- increasing water cost and scarcity, and the burden of golf green maintenance with pesticides. Burton raises some interesting questions which have been explored by environmentalists for years, but only initially explored between the golf establishment and environmentalists together at a Pebble Beach conference in 1995.
Golf course maintenance incurs high costs, and use 300,000 gallons of water each day for golf greens around the United States, according to Burton's article. But golf courses do not depend on water alone to keep it evergreen. Pesticides and synthetic chemicals are sprayed regularly, which compound the environment, and can result in disease and cancer.
Read more in Burton's essay, and additional interviews with golf architects, environmentalists, and others about these issues.
Photo: Desert Springs Golf Course, Costa de Almeria, Spain. Golf Digest Magazine explores whether golf is green in this month's issue. John Barton, in his article "How Green is Golf?&... more -
Exhibition - World's Away: New Suburban Landscapes
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is currently exhibiting new work that comment and defy conventional stereotypes about contemporary American suburban life. The fact that suburban growth has shaped culture and how individuals engage in work and leisure is also the inspiration for new art. Visit the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis to see World's Away, on view through August 17 at the Target Gallery, and later at the Carnegie Museum of Art, October 4, 2008 - January 18, 2009, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Image: Sarah McKenzie, Site, 2007, oil on canvas 48 x 72 in. Courtesy the artist and Robischon Gallery, Denver. Courtesy of Walker Art Center, walker.org. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is currently exhibiting new work that comment and defy conventional stereotypes about contemporar... more -
Aaron Himelstein - Choose Connor - Official Site
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