Earth Day 2011: GCSAA does its part

Earth Day at GCSAA World HQ in Lawrence, Kan., typically signals the official start of spring as staff members take to the grounds to work on one project or another — planting a vegetable garden, putting up bird houses, cleaning out landscaped areas. But since the spring weather in Kansas has been particularly uncooperative this year — think Barry Bonds with federal investigators — today's Earth Day festivities stayed indoors.

Select staff members, led by the association's internal Green Team, organized several projects focused around recycled products. They constructed cork trivets — an item placed between a serving bowl or dish and the table (yea, I had to look that up) — from recycled wine bottle corks. They made gift sacks from old newspapers. And they worked on a company-wide art project that has been on the to-do list for some time.

For their time and trouble, each participant walked away with an environmentally friendly gift bag (pictured here) filled with notable "green" gifts, including a compact fluorescent lightbulb (I didn't have to look that one up), a petunia they could plant in their own gardens, and a toilet tank bag, which essentially converts any toilet into a low-flow toilet when filled and inserted in the toilet's tank.

One more Earth Day post to come, this one highlighting the things golf course superintendents around the country are doing to make their facility's more environmetnally friendly and their businesses more sustainable.

Comments

[Lisa]

Thanks for the post highlighting the Green Team's activities. We've got some people here with creative energy who help us learn more about the reduce, reuse, recycle philiosophy while still having fun.