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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
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Those of us who live in the Napa Valley are no strangers to the effects of climate change. Last summer and fallâs extreme heat and devastating wildfires â along with drought, floods, hurricanes, and fires worldwide â should be enough to convince even the most skeptical that the earth is heating up. But what is climate change, really? And what is meant by global warming? How can an ocean temperature rise of just a few degrees cause climate catastrophes?
Itâs easy to get confused, overwhelmed, and downright depressed about the climate crisis. But thanks to research being done by scientists, environmentalists, journalists, and entrepreneurs, there are many books available that break down some of the most pressing climate issues into understandable bites that provide an overview of the different kinds of environmental concerns.
It’s spring, and for many Americans that means it’s time to drag out the mower and trimmer, invest in various seeds, feeds, pesticides, etc., and quite possibly put the water
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