Sustainable business practices are fairly new on the fairways, but the golf industry, after years of bad publicity, public pressure, and dedicated activism, is slowly and voluntarily changing its ways. Here's the dope: first we'll give you the bad news and then move on to all the reasons golfers should be hopeful.

The United Nations climate change summit, now in its second week in Montreal, is a beast of a conference (read official reports from each day here). Even experienced attendees go crazy trying to decipher its massive schedule of events and activities. Newspapers only report the biggest story of each day – if they report on the conference at all. And they often don't report at all on the most interesting details, which tend to come from each night’s parties and each day’s chance hallway meetings.