Can We Please Stop Fighting About Gardens
One of Strong Towns’ core insights on local food is “let people grow food where it makes sense.” This includes letting residents grow their own produce gardens in the front yard.
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Lawns to the Rescue
It’s an amazing experiment to leave a lawn alone for a couple months and to watch what happens. Nature comes back fast. Trees, flowers, and all the critters return.
Will Carbon Sequestration Redeem the Lawn?
Recently I’ve learned to see some good in the approximately 40 million acres of lawn that engulf the residential landscape in the US. Caveats remain, serious ones, which I’ll get to in a bit; but the truth is, your lawn, my lawn, that of the business down the street or the corporate campus in a nearby suburb, serves as a carbon sink of modestly robust proportions.
Trading Greenbacks for Green Lawns
What’s better than tearing out your water guzzling, time-consuming lawn and replacing it with more sustainable, more appropriate plants?
‘The Era Of The Lawn In The West Is Over’ As Drought-Weary Cities Urge Residents To Save Water
The southwestern U.S., an already arid region of the country, has been parched by droughts over the last few years.
Lawns Of Purple and Gold
We burn 800 million gallons of gas mowing lawns, and statisticians say that we spill 17 million gallons every year just refilling our lawn machines. If so, that beats the Exxon Valdez spill of 10 million gallons.