Green Golf Communities, Preservation, Conservation, Environmentally Friendly

Green Golf Communities

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The Golf Course Home®Network is your No. 1 guide to America’s most environmentally progressive golf communities. These are golf course communities known not only for general excellence, but also for leadership in such areas as habitat restoration, Audubon Sanctuary or Audubon Signature certification, addition of a nature center or staff naturalist, research programs, a conservation foundation, building construction that follows LEED guidelines or similar standards, new urbanism concepts for community layout, chemical use reduction, water conservation, watershed safety, volunteer activity in habitat or wildlife maintenance, outreach and education, dark sky initiatives, reintroduction of wading birds, songbirds, pollinators and other wildlife species, energy-saving design techniques, and reduced carbon output through recycling, composting, use of bio-diesel or other synthetic fuels.

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Spotlighted Green Golf Course Communities!

Ford's Colony
Williamsburg, Virginia

Minutes from Colonial Williamsburg, Ford’s Colony is a 3,000-acre, private, gated community with 54 holes of golf and world-class amenities. It has earned many environmental recognitions, including the 'Vanguard' level in GolfCourseHome® Network Green Golf Community rankings.
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Forest Dunes Golf Club
Roscommon, Michigan

Forest Dunes Golf Club in naturally beautiful Northern Michigan, is a 1,200-acre golf community recognized for environmental awareness. One of just 16 Audubon International Signature Gold Sanctuaries world-wide, its Tom Weiskopf course is ringed by the Huron National Forest.
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The Villages at Tullymore
Stanwood, Michigan

Tullymore is a master-planned golf community featuring custom homesites bordering highly ranked golf courses, nature preserves, lakes and brooks. As part of the popular Tullymore - St. Ives Resort complex, The Villages at Tullymore mixes charm, challenge and entertainment.
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Homestead Preserve
Warm Springs, Virginia

Homestead Preserve is a conservation-based, historic Virginia community situated on 11,500 acres in Bath County. It, is dedicated to the preservation of the natural landscape and architectural heritage of the Allegheny Highlands and is home to three championship golf courses and The Homestead® Resort.
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Green Golf Communities - Spring 2009

Environmentalism within golf, like the green movement overall, has been, and continues, to evolve rapidly. GreenGolfCommunities.net is designed to chart that evolution and to assist real estate buyers in determining the level of activism a community is following and as well as provide insights into its future arc of involvement

The four designations used by GreenGolfCommunities.net—Vanguard, Steward, Sustaining and Participant—represent current levels of involvement and commitment that characterize master-planned golf course communities.

PARTICIPANT
At the entry point of the spectrum, Participant represents communities that have taken basic strides and show the intention of doing more in the future. At a minimum, these communities have set aside relatively sizable acreage as green space.

SUSTAINING

Sustaining level communities demonstrate a deeper focus on the environment by taking additional initiatives. The direction of these initiatives, rather than being part of a master plan, are more ad hoc, but in the aggregate have a cumulative and more far-reaching effects.

STEWARD

Steward communities owe a significant debt to Audubon International in that their participation in Audubon International environmental programs elevate them from the outset to Steward status. Other Stewards may achieve the level without certifying as Audubon Sanctuaries, but by presenting instead a solid list of achievements and green policies.

VANGUARD

Vanguard level properties on GreenGolfCommunities.net are driven to innovate and take the lead in environmental activism. These early adapters pioneer green efforts and aggressively seek out new ways to be environmentally progressive. Vanguard communities embark on virtually all of the basic and expected measures for a master-planned golf course community, then push further to help define new directions for their industry to follow.

You'll note below that community green programs are described as: Significant Green Space, Staff Naturalist, Nature Center, Education & Research, Audubon Sanctuary, Audubon Signature, Habitat Restoration, Green Construction (LEED, etc.), Conservation Foundation, Research Partnership, Volunteer Program, Common Gardens, Additional Awards, Pedestrian Commerce Center, New Urbanism, Innovation/Rails to Trails Paths and Archeological Preserve. Go to 18 Ways to Be Green for further explanation

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Green Golf Communities

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Green Golf Communities - Spring 2009