Dripping Toward a Greener Landscape
How green does your garden grow? That’s the question asked by my Atlanta writer pal Hilda Brucker in her Greener Good piece, appearing in this month’s Continental Airlines inflight magazine.
Based on interviews with experienced botanical and landscape experts, Hilda notes the growing recognition that the average home’s lawn and garden have a greater impact on the environment than most people realize. Excessive irrigation, chemical treatments, fertilizers and pesticides from an estimated 30 million acres of lawns in the U.S. can contribute significantly to contaminated storm runoff, which the EPA has flagged as a “major source of water pollution nationwide.”
Hilda’s piece makes a strong case for an “ideal yard” sporting “a sustainable landscape of plants that thrive under local conditions without requiring copious amounts of chemicals, coddling, or irrigation.”
Now this is one “green cause” I can get behind… Read more
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