GEO丨We are Getting even Greener!
2019-10-10 19:02:44
In 2013, the Foshan Golf Club became the first golf club in the Greater Bay to achieve accreditation of GEO Foundation, an international organization dedicated to providing a credible and practical sustainability system for golf, and was recertified in 2016.
This September, Professor Zhang Juming, the GEO Certification Verifier in China visited the Club for the third accreditation.Carrying out the OnCourse project, our resources and energy consumption, such as the amount of water, electricity, pesticides and fertilizers, has decreased year by year. Professor Zhang suggested a statistical file to record the plants and animals species and nests for birds on trees. He was very happy with our using of solar energy at the Clubhouse and the large preserved bioswale on course.
Water Resource Protection on course
Storage: Interconnected lakes with a storage capacity of 1.1 million cubic meters. Water storage in the lakes fully meets the irrigation demands of the golf course.
Permeation: Restoration of eroded lands and preservation of 47 hectares of natural forest.
Purification: Adoption of water purification technologies including artificial and natural wetlands and a waste water treatment system capable of treating up to 4.45 million cubic meters of water per year.
Retention: The bioswales makes use of the natural terrain to maximize rainwater capture which is directed to the lakes for further purification.
The most important and popular event of the Club, and one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the Greater Bay—the Foshan Open, is also a green event. Jonathan Smith, CEO of GEO, came last year during the tournament to share the idea of golf sustainable development and the OnCourse project.
This year, we are getting even greener! E-tickets and online promotional materials will be issued more than ever to reduce prints, and there will be more efficient shuttle buses and water purifying machines to replace the traditional fuel vehicles and bottled water.
