Kill Your Lawn! »
Posted By Digidave 4 months ago in NewsOne of the biggest underground cultural shifts in North America is focused in some vague yet powerful ways on the question of sod. Big, perfectly smooth, green lawns have become for many of us, a symbol of unsustainability that rivals the SUV.
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Natureboy4 months ago
The cultural artifact which is the lawn has its roots in Europe, where the nobility used them to display their wealth - It was only the nobility which could afford to waste both land and labor to maintain something which was sublimely useless.
Lawns are the stupidest things ever. Because they fill only one ecological niche and leave the remainder vacant, they make necessary an unending warfare against the other vegetation which seeks to establish itself. They eat up vast amounts of water, herbicide, pesticide, fertilizer.
The "xeriscape" concept of killing your soil by covering it with plastic and rocks is only slightly betteer.
Get a clue, grow food!
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PsychoHosebeast4 months ago
Let's talk about golf courses before you start hammering people for having a 900 square foot lawn. And maybe your lawn serves no purpose, but mine does, as a place for kids to play with their dog. Pretty tough to do when corn and tomatoes are in the way. A lawn can be easily maintained without all the chemicals and poisons implied.
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Georgia504 months ago
Here's an altnernative that includes beauty, natural growth, and food: wildflowers and a bee hive or two.
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