Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet initiative has ...

An old bridge along a cart path is one of the few reminders that the 215 acres bought by Jim Carpenter and his wife, Nancy, were once a golf course. (IBJ photos/Chad Williams) The only clues that ...

Golf courses, despite occupying large green spaces, are not necessarily good for the environment. Land is often cleared to make way for a fairway and maintaining the pristine turf often requires a lot ...