Your Lawn Has a Dirty Little Secret: It's Not as "Green" as You Think
A lush, green lawn has embedded itself as an urban status symbol of abundance and success. People can’t get enough of it — there are candles devoted to the scent of freshly cut grass. But it’s time to reset our 18th century perspective on lawns for something more environmentally minded.

Subscribe to Inverse! [ Ссылка ]

Professor Maria Ignatieva of the University of Western Australia and Marcus Hedblom of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences explain this week in an article in the journal Science how the picture-perfect green lawns people have learned to love are not sustainable investments for the environment.

[ Ссылка ]

“People love their lawns,” Maria Ignatieva says in an interview with the Science Magazine podcast about the research. “They think it provides a lot of services.” The resume of a lawn sounds promising: it can produce oxygen, sequester carbon, reduce soil erosion and water runoff, and increase water infiltration (the process of water returning to soil in the ground). Environmentally, having a lawn certainly beats a slab of concrete, but the price we pay to maintain lawns indicates that maybe we should retract those bragging rights.

New Merch! 'Science & Chill t-shirts! [ Ссылка ]

Watch our new show Squad Up: The Fortnite Talk Show!
[ Ссылка ]

About Inverse

Inverse sparks curiosity about the future. We explore the science of anything, innovations that shape tomorrow, and ideas that stretch our minds. Our goal is to motivate the next generation to build a better world.
[ Ссылка ]

some notes: environment environment pollution climate change lawn tech

#science #climatechange #inverse

свернуть