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How Stupid Is Our Obsession With Lawns? (Ep. 289 Rebroadcast)
June 30, 2021 @ 11:00pm Listen now:
Nearly two percent of America is grassy green. Sure, lawns are beautiful and useful and they smell great. But are the costs financial, environmental and otherwise worth the benefits?
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Where I live, in the great northeast of the United States, it’s finally summertime. When you get outside, it’s beautiful. The trees, the flowers and of course, the lawns! Who doesn’t love a good lawn? It looks good, smells good, feels good. For a lot of people, a lawn is the perfect form of nature. Even though, let’s be honest, the lawns we like don’t actually occur in nature. Even though the process of producing such a lawn is full of the most unnatural activity. Even though this unnatural slice of nature requires so many inputs the water, the fertilizer, the weed-killers, the mowers and trimmers and the leaf-blower
How do engineers determine whether a bridge is safe? David Proeber
DECATUR â As a driver for Birch Bus Service in Cerro Gordo, Deb Taylor crosses Lake Decatur twice every school day using Reas Bridge Road, one of 60 Macon County bridges deemed âpoorâ on a federal database. Itâs a designation that concerns her.
âEspecially when youâre carrying precious cargo that we do,â she said.
Reas Bridge is set for repairs after being listed for years in the National Bridge Inventory, a Federal Highway Administration database that tracks the structural integrity of 620,000 bridges in the U.S.
The vast majority of bridges nationally and in Macon County are structurally sound and motorists are in no danger. But there also those that fall into the lower categories, and officials say they are taking steps to address any issues.
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