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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
arrow The intersection of McGuinness Boulevard and Bayard Street where a pedestrian was killed Matthew Jensen was killed Google Maps
Brooklyn parents are mourning the death of a beloved public school teacher who was killed in a hit-and-run crash earlier this week.
Matthew Jensen, 58, was fatally struck by a Rolls Royce driver while crossing the notoriously dangerous McGuinness Boulevard near Bayard Street just after midnight on Tuesday, police said.
The victim taught at P.S. 110, and was described as a ray of sunshine known to just about everyone in the Greenpoint grade school. In addition to teaching in the school s English as a Second Language program, Jensen was an avid soccer player and a lover of gardening, parents said.