Green Doesn’t Always Mean Natural

If the government really cared about the environment, they would ban lawns.

The grass typically used as ground cover—often the sole landscaping feature surrounding American homes—is a black hole for water, as well as a dumping ground for chemicals like fertilizer and pesticides that people use without thinking.

Because lawns are non-native to most of the U.S., it takes an inordinate amount of chemical assistance to keep them alive. Even as the country embraces the merits of organic gardening and GMO-free produce, they continue to drop more than 30 thousand tons of pesticides and 3 million tons of fertilizers literally …read more