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Where Does the Water Go? Posted Date: 9/9/2010 Summary: In most cities, it runs off into nearby lakes, rivers and streams. And that's a problem. Cities are coming up with new ways to deal with an old problem: storm-water runoff. Category: Around_The_Web
CA town installing controllers to save up to 200 million gallons of water Posted Date: 9/9/2010 Summary: The city of Santa Clarita is installing a system of irrigation controllers to save millions of gallons of water annually in a program recognized nationally as the largest smart water-management system ever. Category: Around_The_Web
What are your options for Tier 0 and Tier 1 machines? Posted Date: 9/3/2010 Summary: If "in-use" non-road emissions regulations may be in your future, or if you face other emissions requirements by way of bid specifications or green construction sites, you’re likely asking yourself what you can do with Tier 0 and Tier 1 equipment in your fleet. Category: Around_The_Web
Harvard hosts Summit on Injuries Plaguing Young Athletes Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: An estimated 3 million youngsters are treated in emergency rooms annually for sports injuries, and another 5 million come under the care of their doctors or sports medicine clinics for injuries sustained on the field. Category: Around_The_Web
Robotic mower company lands $4.5 million in funding Posted Date: 8/30/2010 Summary: Precise Path Robotics Inc., maker of robotic lawn mowers, announced that it has secured $4.5 million in private funding. Category: Around_The_Web
PGMS to honor John Deere, Jeff Bourne Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: The Professional Grounds Management Society has announced that the John Deere company will be presented the 2010 PGMS Gold Medal and that Jeffrey Bourne, chief, division of facilities and capital programs, Montgomery County (MD) Department of Recreation will receive the PGMS E. Earl Wilson Award. Category: Around_The_Web
U.S. small-business borrowing edges up: Paynet Posted Date: 8/6/2010 Summary: Borrowing by small US businesses edged up in June, data released by PayNet Inc showed, but the bounce fell well short of suggesting the economy is gaining steam. Category: Around_The_Web
Bay Bridge Gateway Park a chance for big ideas Posted Date: 7/9/2010 Summary: Now the Bay Area has a chance to make a move as lasting and bold, in the most unlikely spot: amid the tangle of freeway ramps leading to the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. Category: Around_The_Web
National Trust employs Old Trafford turf technology to keep visitors on the grass Posted Date: 7/9/2010 Summary: A groundbreaking experiment will see sports turf technology systems used at venues like Manchester United's Old Trafford ground employed at the National Trust's Hidcote garden in Gloucestershire to help keep visitors on the grass. Category: Around_The_Web
A Way to Stay a Cut Above the Neighbors: Super Mowers Posted Date: 7/9/2010 Summary: Linda and Bob Thayer of Wellington, OH recently invested in a sporty new set of wheels. It boasts a premium engine, high-backed ergonomic seating and all-wheel steering that can turn the vehicle on a dime. It also cuts the grass. Category: Around_The_Web
Study points to health law’s penalties Posted Date: 6/9/2010 Summary: About one-third of employers subject to major requirements of the new health care law may face tax penalties because they offer health insurance that could be considered unaffordable to some employees, a new study says. Category: Around_The_Web
Nutrients PLUS, LLC and New Day Farms partner Posted Date: 6/9/2010 Summary: Nutrients PLUS, LLC, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia announces an agreement with New Day Farms, LLC, an Ohio poultry layer corporation, for exclusive right to purchase New Day's composted poultry manure, an organic additive for its fertilizers. Category: Around_The_Web
Some business travelers like constant Net access; others don't Posted Date: 6/9/2010 Summary: When Roger Phelps hits the road for business, he often puts in 17-hour days. So when he finally boards his flight, don't look for him to be in touch. Category: Around_The_Web
Next up in city beautification efforts just may be fake grass Posted Date: 5/28/2010 Summary: It is not cheap or easy to keep the grass along Gillette's (WY) streets and parking lots green, so city officials have come up with an idea: Fake it. Category: Around_The_Web
Phillies find financial splendor in the grass Posted Date: 5/22/2010 Summary: Anyone who's listened to a Philadelphia Phillies radio broadcast this season has heard the commercial for a grass seed that's the same as the one used at the team's ballpark. Category: Around_The_Web
Sports Construction Group gets new home Posted Date: 5/22/2010 Summary: A marquee display on a building facade designed to replicate Progressive Field, as well as a lawn made of artificial turf, can now be seen in Brecksville. Although it sounds like a new stadium might have sprung up to the south, the pair is actually fixtures on the new grounds for Sports Construction Group. Category: Around_The_Web
Oak wilt threatens trees in North Texas Posted Date: 5/17/2010 Summary: Oak wilt is a deadly fungal disease that threatens all red oaks and live oaks in North Texas. In rural areas across the state, particularly in the Texas Hill Country, the disease has killed entire stands of oaks, one by one, like sets of dominoes. Category: Around_The_Web
National FFA & Arysta LifeScience award scholarships Posted Date: 5/12/2010 Summary: The National FFA Organization awarded five scholarships on behalf of Arysta LifeScience North America. Category: Around_The_Web
Arysta LifeScience buys South African company Posted Date: 5/12/2010 Summary: Arysta LifeScience South Africa reported it has completed its previously announced acquisition of selected assets of Tsunami Plant Protection and the business and selected assets of Tsunami Crop Care. Category: Around_The_Web
Direction of crop rows increases yield by maximizing access to sunlight Posted Date: 5/4/2010 Summary: Higher demand for organically grown foods has farmers seeking new methods to increase crop yields and reduce weeds without the use of chemicals. One very practical solution uses a readily available resource and requires no additional costs or time-consuming weeding and cultivating. It is, simply, maximizing the light of the sun. Category: Around_The_Web
New PR Partnership announced Posted Date: 5/4/2010 Summary: Debbie Clayton and Stacey Himes announce the formation of ClaytonHimes PR, a full-service public relations firm based in Philadelphia. The partnership will provide PR counsel for FMC Professional Solutions Group. Category: Around_The_Web
Bill to extend ethanol tax credit reignites fuel vs. food debate Posted Date: 4/5/2010 Summary: A bill introduced in the US House last week would extend ethanol tax credits for another five years, to 2015. This tax credit is set to expire on December 31, 2010. If extended, the tax credits will provide the conventional ethanol industry with $30 billion over five years. Category: Around_The_Web
Artificial leaves could provide cheap energy Posted Date: 4/5/2010 Summary: Artificial leaves that mimic nature could in future provide a cheap way of generating hydrogen from sunlight and water. Category: Around_The_Web
Propane-powered lawnmower cuts cleaner, says report Posted Date: 3/18/2010 Summary: Propane fuels your camp stove and patio grill because it burns efficiently and is easy to store safely. Now the same canisters are making lawn mowers more eco- and user-friendly, too. The propane-powered Eco Mower spews 26 percent less greenhouse gases and 60 percent less carbon monoxide than a gasoline model. Category: Around_The_Web
Pedal-powered mower is talk of handmade bike show Posted Date: 3/8/2010 Summary: If you are going to have a lawn, TreeHugger Mike recommends a reel (or push) mower. (But then, he is an addict.) If you are going to have a really big lawn, talk to Ted Wojcik. He built a mower seen at the North American Handmade Bike Show. Category: Around_The_Web
Briggs to settle lawsuits over horsepower labeling Posted Date: 3/4/2010 Summary: Briggs & Stratton has agreed to settle more than 65 class-action lawsuits filed against the company and other outdoor power equipment makers alleging misleading horsepower labeling on lawnmower engines. Category: Around_The_Web
Deere CEO optimistic at annual meeting Posted Date: 2/26/2010 Summary: Deere's new leader, Sam Allen, says the company is in a good position to continue moving ahead. Category: Around_The_Web
Upscale golf going green in FLA Posted Date: 2/26/2010 Summary: The tradition-bound, somewhat chemical-heavy sport of golf isn't exactly the first place you’d look for evidence that we really have launched into a more sustainable future, but there you have it: golf is going green, and the ferociously upscale St. Andrews Country Club of Boca Raton is part of the revolution. Category: Around_The_Web
Hills/Forrest breaks ground on first Korean design Posted Date: 2/26/2010 Summary: The architects at Hills/Forrest and Associates continue to stake their claim as golf's most cosmopolitan course designers, this time in South Korea where ground has been broken on the first 18 at the 54-hole Sanyosoo Resort. Category: Around_The_Web
Yahoo & Twitter partner Posted Date: 2/26/2010 Summary: Yahoo announced a partnership with Twitter and by the looks of the official announcement, it actually looks like the planned integration is far deeper than those of either Google or Bing. Category: Around_The_Web
Deere Golf receives engineering award Posted Date: 2/22/2010 Summary: John Deere's 7200 PrecisionCut Trim and Surrounds Mower, the 7500 E-Cut and 8500 E-Cut Hybrid Fairway Mowers recently received the AE50 Award from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Category: Around_The_Web
GA governor moves water conservation bill forward Posted Date: 2/22/2010 Summary: Gov. Sonny Perdue's water conservation legislation easily cleared committee last week and could move soon into the full Georgia Senate. Category: Around_The_Web
Defections shake up climate coalition Posted Date: 2/22/2010 Summary: Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. Category: Around_The_Web
Fire Belly Organics joins SafeLawns Mission Posted Date: 2/1/2010 Summary: Offering a straight-forward, effective alternative to synthetic fertilizers and pesticides for lawn and garden care, Fire Belly Organics announced it was joining the SafeLawns movement as a Presenting Sponsor of the film, A Chemical Reaction, and as a supporter of SafeLawns.org. Category: Around_The_Web
Film questions use of lawn chemicals Posted Date: 2/1/2010 Summary: With the start of the spring lawn and garden season just weeks away in many areas of North America, a critically acclaimed, yet controversial documentary film will question many of the products currently used to make lawns green and weed free. Category: Around_The_Web
Deere & Company, PGA TOUR agree to 6-year extension Posted Date: 1/26/2010 Summary: Deere & Company and the PGA TOUR today announced a 6-year extension of Deere's title sponsorship of the John Deere Classic, as well as a 2-year extension of its official marketing agreement with the TOUR, continuing both through 2016. Category: Around_The_Web
Federal analysis shows disparity in use of water for ethanol Posted Date: 1/26/2010 Summary: Nebraska farmers are part of a Northern Plains grouping of states that typically uses 323.6 gallons of water to produce a gallon of ethanol from corn, according to a new federal study. In Iowa, Missouri and other states in the adjoining Midwest region, where irrigation is mostly absent and rainfall more plentiful, the figure is 10 gallons. Category: Around_The_Web
WaterSmart Innovations Conference in Vegas through 2012 Posted Date: 1/26/2010 Summary: Organizers of the WaterSmart Innovations Conference and Exposition, the world's largest conference dedicated to urban water efficiency, recently announced that the show will remain in Las Vegas at least through 2012. Category: Around_The_Web
Engineering the best soils for turfgrass applications Posted Date: 1/26/2010 Summary: The purpose of USGA Turfgrass and Environmental Research Online is to effectively communicate the results of research projects funded under USGA's Turfgrass and Environmental Research Program to all who can benefit from such knowledge. Category: Around_The_Web
WE ARE GOLF initiative to change the face of golf Posted Date: 1/26/2010 Summary: WE ARE GOLF, a coalition of four of the game's leading associations, was announced today as an initiative to change the face of golf and to represent the economic, human and environmental benefits of the industry at federal, state and local levels of government. Category: Around_The_Web
Columbia Plateau Project Conference Dec. 17 Posted Date: 12/7/2009 Summary: Progress on research to reduce wind erosion and improve air quality in the inland Pacific Northwest will be reported at the Columbia Plateau PM1 Project annual meeting on Dec. 17 at Washington State University. Category: Around_The_Web
Grand grass continues to be featured item at Richmond U Posted Date: 11/23/2009 Summary: Two hours before Villanova played the University of Richmond at UR Stadium on Nov. 7, Dennis Blackburn repeatedly bent over with a stencil in his left hand and a can of white spray paint in his right. Up the sideline he walked, spraying the edges of yard-markers so they would be precisely 4 inches wide, with well-defined corners. Category: Around_The_Web
Scottish Premier League club Motherwell sees pitch improvements with Barenbrug Posted Date: 11/23/2009 Summary: Scottish Premier League club Motherwell FC's head groundsman Ian Wilson says he's "over the moon" with Fir Park Stadium's new pitch following its complete reconstruction using Barenbrug grass seed. Category: Around_The_Web
Busch Gardens landscaper cuts 130 local jobs after 30-year contract ends Posted Date: 11/23/2009 Summary: Florida-based landscaping and maintenance business will cut more than 250 jobs in Virginia and Florida next month after Busch Gardens ends a contract with the company to provide services to the theme park. Category: Around_The_Web
Olympics spur B.C. water recycling strategy Posted Date: 11/16/2009 Summary: Water shortages should be the last thing that folks in Vancouver have to worry about. Despite the rainy climate and the seemingly boundless water supplies, regional municipalities in British Columbia are taking water conservation very seriously as they gear up for the 2010 Olympic Games. Category: Around_The_Web
Local lawn and landscape companies renovate fields in Milwaukee Posted Date: 11/16/2009 Summary: On Saturday, November 7 from 9:00am – 12:00pm, more than 26 ball fields in Milwaukee got makeovers courtesy of local green industry companies. Category: Around_The_Web
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