Groundskeeping

With these simple sustainable groundskeeping ideas, grounds and facilities departments can show they care about practices that are economically and environmentally viable.

For the second year, the Arbor Day Foundation’s Tree Campus Healthcare program will recognize healthcare facility campuses fostering community wellness through tree planting, education, and engagement.

In response to COVID-19, GBCI introduces these credits focused on landscape management and zero waste for buildings and sites.

Here are four ways a renewed focus on facility landscaping will benefit operations, revenue, and safety for businesses as shelter-in-place orders lift.

The company’s service involves the application of disinfectant products to walkways, patios or decks, fences, gates, playground equipment, stadium seating, park benches, outdoor furniture and tables, and most other outdoor hardscape surfaces.

Across the U.S., 16 hospitals are recognized for campus initiatives in wellness and community engagement through trees.

Nonprofit organization Keep America Beautiful announces the grant application period for its 2020 Cigarette Litter Prevention Program. Deadline is April 10, 2020.

The National Association of Landscape Professionals offers insight on making sure facilities are ready with a snow and ice management plan.

The October 2019 Issue looks at sustainability for buildings and grounds. Plus sensor technology, keeping facility grounds safe, and lighting retrofits.

Video from Propane Education & Research Council captures a "day in the life" for municipal fleets operating propane-powered mowers.