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Interactive Native Habitat
One of the important lessons that we have learned over the years is that small projects can have large impacts. As an example, when the staff at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge in Snoqualmie, WA finished adding a pool to the grounds, they took the opportunity to not only restore the nearby area to pre-construction status, but specifically…
Read MoreDon’t Miss These Award Opportunities!
In addition to offering Audubon International certification for your sustainability efforts, we look for other ways you can receive cash prizes and recognition. Here are three opportunities, which relate to economic development, health, and innovation in sustainability and have deadlines in the next month. Contact me if you would like assistance in submitting an application…
Read MoreEarth Day in the Adirondacks
What better way to spend Earth Day 2013 than celebrating the environmental accomplishments of the Lake Placid/Saranac region of New York State generally and those of lodging and tourism sector specifically?! On April 22, I was invited to represent Audubon International at a media event held at one of the most environmentally friendly lodging facilities…
Read MoreSustainable Communities Tour of South Carolina and Georgia
Last week, Katie and I visited three coastal communities in South Carolina and Georgia making great strides in the field of sustainability. We had a chance to see firsthand how each community uniquely expresses itself using the same basic palette of maritime forest, marshland, and ocean dunes. In each community, sustainability leaders eagerly pointed out…
Read MoreTime well spent at the ASGCA Meeting!
As anyone in the northeastern U.S. (and other northerly points) can attest, this past winter ended up “lingering” for a time (I’m really starting to think that Punxsutawney Phil may not know as much about predicting the weather as we’ve been led to believe all these years). So, when the American Society of Golf Course Architects…
Read MoreCommunication
In my last blog entry, I talked about seeing with new eyes and used The Links at Fancourt in South Africa as an example. Today we received an email showing two more pictures taken by their camera trap and I think it is worth including, in its entirety, partly as an example and partly for…
Read MoreSeeing with new eyes
One of my favorite quotes is by French novelist, Marcel Proust: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” As an environmental educator, I feel that one of my most important missions is to help people really see things that they look at every day. By…
Read MoreA visit to Charlotte
I recently had the pleasure of visiting our newest member in the Signature Program. The project is a 320-unit multi-family apartment community located in University Research Park (URP) on a 27-acre parcel in Charlotte, North Carolina. The goal of this visit was to get acquainted with the project property and surroundings, meet the development team,…
Read More100 Greatest Golf Courses
Golf Digest recently released their 2013/14 ratings for America’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses. As I do every couple of years, I examined the list for old friends and was pleased, once again, by the number of these highly rated courses that have been working with Audubon International over the years. If you look at the golf courses…
Read MoreBirds, Birding and Bird Conservation
Like everyone else, I get a lot of e-news on a daily basis, most of which is dumped even before I take time to read past the headline. But there is one newsletter that I look forward to receiving each month. It is The Birding Community E-Bulletin. This is an email newsletter concerning birds, birding,…
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