Conservation & Ecology


“Extensive trade and globalised business does not have to equate to a raw deal for local people or the planet”


The Golf Environment Organization


Call to Action T


In the fourth of a series of articles, The Golf Environment Organization looks at issues relating to the supply chain - ethical and environmental purchasing, product lifecycles and recycling, working with local contractors and suppliers, reducing consumption, embodied energy and delivery miles - that all golf facilities deal with every day.


By Richard Allison, Project Manager, Sustainability, The Golf Environment Organization


50 PC JUNE/JULY 2013


here are six key action areas of sustainability - Nature, Water, Energy, Supply Chain, Pollution Control and Community. Improving your performance in each is good for your business, good for the game, and good for the people involved with your club.


Golf: The Global Industry


There are very few places on earth that golf has not yet reached. From the deserts of the Middle East to the World Ice Championships in Greenland, golf is truly a global industry. As a growing business currently supplying 50 million golfers and 35,000 courses worldwide, golf presents a logistical and environmental challenge to manufacturers, service providers and contractors everywhere.


Sustainable opportunities


With golf set to feature even more heavily in the public eye as it returns to the


Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro 2016, we, as a community, need to look at the impact of our supply chain decision making. Local decisions can have global implications if the products and services utilised by golf facilities, events and tourism operators are not carefully considered. Extensive trade and globalised business does not have to equate to a raw deal for local people or the planet.


Golf has enormous financial power to integrate social and environmental issues into purchasing decisions. Tens of thousands of golf businesses around the world all promoting efficient fair trade, innovative low carbon supply chains and valuable local benefits, is a message that can't be ignored. If everyone made small, simple decisions to adopt an ethical approach to buying products and dealing with waste, it would generate a huge positive legacy.


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