Benia Zouras
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Here’s a great article that examines the impacts of lawns:
http://www.alternet.org/environment/147894?page=entire
My yard is 100% lawn-free and my native gardens require no watering while they soak up rainwater and provide food and habitat for lots of great local wildlife species. If you don’t see a butterfly in my yard this summer, just wait 15 minutes and you will. Our giant purple hyssop is also a favorite of hummingbirds.
Bet your lawn can’t do any of that!
Posted to This year’s harvest could be last for resident’s garden - Northbrook
If everyone planted native plants in their yards, the long roots would soak up more water and reduce flooding and flood damage.
Posted to Waste Management Responds To Chicago-Area Flooding With Bagster Dumpster in a Bag - Elgin
“Stand up an complain when your neighbor is being an idiot, which this woman is. The mess belongs out back. She knows it, the neighbors know it, and the city knows it. ”
This mentality is what’s keeping the world from progressing toward its future. What’s more important right now, at a time when severe weather systems stemming from climate change, caused by pollution and disregard for the Earth’s health – a “mess” or responsible use of the land? This woman is not harming anyone and if there are laws that require lawn, those laws are antiquated.
Everyone should be encouraged, not punished, for doing something more responsible than growing useless, polluting, water-sucking lawn on their land. I’m outraged that towns like Northbrook still don’t understand the responsibility we all have to make best use of the Earth, without further contributing to the problems we’re already knee-deep in. It’s time to say good-bye to useless lawns and open our minds to smarter landscaping. I applaud this woman and hope Northbrook officials finally see that she is doing more for everyone and their children than anyone with a green carpet of turf grass.
Posted to This year’s harvest could be last for resident’s garden - Northbrook