A 56-year-old man from Wisconsin has been arrested after shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn’t start. Why do we add unnecessary stress to an already stressful world by covering our personal open space with needy lawns? If only he had stopped to consider why he even had a lawn, he might have diverted that [...]
Michael Pollan’s book, Second Nature, includes a great piece entitled “Why Mow?”, where he explores the American lawn as “a metaphor for our skewed relationship with the land” and places it into historical and psychological context. Lawns are nature purged of sex or death. No wonder Americans like them so much. The whole book (buy [...]
Elizabeth Kolbert has a great piece entitled Turf War in the New Yorker that sums up the history and hazards of the American Lawn. She mentions an astonishing figure that: Recently, a NASA-funded study, which used satellite data collected by the Department of Defense, determined that, including golf courses, lawns in the United States cover [...]
11 — According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the average home owner’s gas-powered lawn mower pumps out as much pollution per hour as 11 automobiles do. Read the whole story at Treehugger.
