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Become a Lorax with a Driver in Your Hand
By Dr. Suess, er, I mean Fletcher,
Ph.D., Director of Programs & Administration, Audubon
International |
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over fifteen years, Audubon International has educated
and assisted golf facilities, and their owners,
managers, and staff, in doing great things to help the
environment. From using the golf facility and grounds as
an environmental education tool for excited
golfers to stream restoration projects resulting
in cleaner, healthier aquatic ecosystems on and off the
golf course, these examples should serve to wake up the Lorax in all of us.
In The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the title character is the
only voice for nature (“I speak for the trees”) in a
world blinded by development, convenience, exhausted
resource use, consumption, and ignorance. In the end,
one lone boy is left to care for the one lone seed after
the world has been plundered. Only at the end of the
story does the narrator, and protagonist as well,
understand what the Lorax was saying.
You, too, can be a Lorax…with a driver in your hand.
Already, golfers at over thirty golf courses and clubs
across the country (and world) have taken a very simple
step to speak for the trees, and the rest of the
environment in and around their golf facilities. They
are speaking with one voice through the Audubon Green
Golfer Pledge. It’s odd to think that pledging to
replace your divot or supporting better landscaping
management practices on the golf course can make a
difference—but it can, especially if hundreds of
thousands of golfers in the state got involved.
For all of you already involved in environmental
stewardship in some way—thank you! For the rest of
you—take the Green Golfer Pledge today to bring out the
Lorax in you. For more information and to get involved,
visit www.GolfandEnvironment.org.
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