Important Things to Know About Natural Turf

Normally when talking about making sports facilities more sustainable, natural turf gets the boot because artificial turf is more sustainable. Natural turf is know for the constant keep up unlike the artificial turf. Natural turf also needs to be fertilized and artificial doesn't. Natural is know for going dead constantly if there is no keep up, whether the artificial is always green. This article talks about the importance facts to know if you are going to keep up the natural turf. There is fertilization that provides the nutrition for not only the grass, but the microbial population, which helps maintain the healthy shape of the grass. If natural turf is still an option, be very cautious in the products that are being used to proved that healthy green color.
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Works Cited

CONLEY, LEN. "Building Quality Turf Starts With Healthy Soil." Sportsturf 31.5 (2015): 30-31. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

 

References

CONLEY, L. (2015). BUILDING QUALITY TURF STARTS WITH HEALTHY SOIL. Sportsturf, 31(5), 30-31.

Challenges Willing to be Accepted

This article talks about turning public parks, fields, and facilities into more sustainable ones. Although there are more positive sides to becoming more sustainable, this article talked about the challenges that were created while creating these public facilities. Some of the challenges were the lack of investment into the parks, which caused the facilities to look poor and were unsustainable. Another red flag that took place was that the developers thought it was more important to value car movement instead of pedestrian movement. Just because these challenges weren't met in the development of these facilities, doe not necessarily mean that they cannot be fixed. They can so easily. This article could help future facility developers in ways that make sure they do meet the challenges so that the parks are sustainable.
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Works Cited

BAINBRIDGE, BEN. "Changing Sports Facilities, Parks And Public Spaces In Yarra Ranges." Australasian Parks & Leisure 18.1 (2015): 32-33. SPORTDiscus with Full Text. Web. 28 Mar. 2016.

 

References

BAINBRIDGE, B. (2015). CHANGING SPORTS FACILITIES, PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES IN YARRA RANGES. Australasian Parks & Leisure, 18(1), 32-33.

 

Cons of Going Green

This article correlates to the other article I wrote my previous post on. This article also talks about the disadvantages of going green. This article gives more real life examples. One of the examples the article provides is really interesting because I have never thought about it from this certain perspective. We are all taught to save paper as much as possible, which is great because we are going paperless and saving the trees. Awesome! But, what I did not think about going paperless is the technologic side. The use of laptops is implied into the solution to going paperless. The reason why it could be a bad thing to become paperless is because the laptops that we use to conserve paper can get stole, which means that whatever important information you had on the laptop is now gone and now you have to spend a lot of money replacing that laptop with a new one.
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disadvantages-going-green-corporation-3318.html

References
Joseph, C. (n.d.). The Disadvantages of Going Green for a Corporation. Retrieved March 21, 2016, from http://smallbusiness.chron.com/disadvantages-going-green-corporation-3318.html

Works Cited
Joseph, Chris. "The Disadvantages of Going Green for a Corporation." Web. 21 Mar. 2016.

Disadvantages to Going Green

This article stood out to me because recently I have been researching the positive aspects of going green. As we all know, there are a lot of reasons why we should go green and become more sustainable. Although there is an abundant amount of positive reasons to go green, the negative reasons seem to be outspoken. This article was interesting because it taught me that going green is expensive. Some ways in going green can be very expensive. Now a days, becoming green is helped with technology which is a main reason why it can be very expensive. The article talks about eating organic foods to help go green, but even organic food is very pricy.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/137345-what-are-disadvantages-going-green/

Works Cited
Lake, Rebecca. "What Are the Disadvantages of Going Green?" LIVESTRONG.COM. LIVESTRONG.COM, 03 July 2015. Web. 21 Mar. 2016. http://www.livestrong.com/article/137345-what-are-disadvantages-going-green/.


References
Lake, R. (2015, July 03). What Are the Disadvantages of Going Green? Retrieved March 21, 2016, from http://www.livestrong.com/article/137345-what-are-disadvantages-going-green/