Nantucket Golf Club
Nantucket, Massachusetts
The Project
A complete carbon footprint analysis of an existing private country club including analysis of historical energy billings, fuel use and fertilizer/chemical inputs. Project was accomplished under the joint program CARBONSAVE© for golf and Dr. Stuart Cohen.
What was done
Every aspect of the facility was gathered in order to understand the current position of the carbon outputs:
- Electricity and propane
- gasoline and diesel
- fertilizer, amendments and chemicals
- office supplies including paper
- deliveries to course including materials and Fed Ex l
As part of the analysis, golf course turf, native grasses, trees and shrubs were examined for their ability to sequester carbon and other green house gases:
- Calculations combined CARBONSAVE© proprietary information and the leading research from Colorado State University to quantify the total sequestration
the result
- 50% of the carbon footprint is attributed to electricity use and 34% is attributed to propane
- 66.3 tons of CO2 per year is being sequestered from the environment
awards / highlights
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