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Marce Edwards is the business editor. She has been at The News Tribune for seven years and has written about technology and big businesses in the South Sound including Weyerhaeuser and Russell. Before moving to Tacoma, she worked at The Idaho Statesman in Boise. She is a Northwest native who likes to garden and refuses to use an umbrella. She lives in Tacoma with her husband and two kids.
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A Canadian p.r. agency is out this morning with a report on “what could be the latest trend in weddings.”
It was “Eco Elegance” personified as Barb McKechnie and Jeff Boschert tied the knot (which one hopes is not itself recyclable) at The Rise, a 735-acre golf and winery resort near Vernon, British Columbia, where housing units are heated and cooled with a ground-source geothermal system.
According to Canada’s dHz Media, the wedding featured:
• No limousines. Everybody rode hybrids.
• Wherever possible, all waste produced was recycled or composted.
• Wedding favors – wooden cutlery with guests’ names and the wedding date burned on – were recyclable. (Why someone would want to toss a wedding favor into the recycling stream was not discussed.)
• Invitations were printed on recycled paper.
Do I sniff an Eco Elegance public-relations gap between golf courses in British Columbia ourselves? Is this an opportunity for University Place’s own Chambers Bay to begin tooting a new kind of horn – a green horn?
For instance, at Chambers Bay:
• The land itself is recycled, having once been used as a sand and gravel strip mine.
• What could be more eco-friendly than a sewage treatment plant right next door?
• No high-carbon-footprint golf carts or other vehicles (except for ambulances retrieving golfers who find the course too difficult for their hearts) are allowed on the course.
• Traffic is so jammed on a nice day that people are forced to walk or ride bicycles to get where they’re going.
