Lawns
Our suburban lawns (along with golf courses) are green deserts – biodiversity dead zones. While our catastrophic loss of wildlife and insect populations is largely due to industrial agriculture, our cities have also wiped out ecosystem habitats. Douglas Tallamy, in his new book Nature’s Best Hope points out that lawns are biodiversity unfriendly by design: chemically treated and lacking diverse flora. They are also water-thirsty and poor carbon sinks. If American homeowners converted half their land to native plantings, it would create an area larger than all national parks in the lower 48 states combined. Time for some suburban rewilding.
— Wayne Visser
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