Beyond BEEing A BEE Smart Club Broken Sound Club Has Earned National and International Recognitions For Its Sustainability Best Practices
Broken Sound Club (www.brokensoundclub.org) began its sustainability efforts on its greens with reclaiming water and adding birdhouses, a butterfly garden and true native areas on its golf courses. Looking internally at facility operations, BSC moved to paperless accounting, cardboard and paper recycling and installing of water reduction toilets, shower heads, motion sensor lighting systems with LED fixtures and bulbs, and replacing Styrofoam cups with biodegradable products made of corn starch before its large investment in composting. Most recently, BSC became the first club community to install a Tesla charging station and employ a beekeeper to install and maintain 22 beehives on [...]