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Conservation Gardening Best of the Web #3: Lawn Reform

This week’s best of the web is about Lawn reform because it was much in the blogosphere this week. I’ve already written about my views on the American Lawn, so it will come as no surprise to you that I’m totally in favor of all efforts to reduce lawns because they provide so little habitat [...]

Conservation Gardening Weekly Best of the Web

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I thought I’d share some wonderful articles from around the web this week. It is great to see so many other writers committed to the principles of Conservation Gardening. So here, in no particular order, is what I read this week: Joel Gillespie wrote about Obsessively Green Gardening, where he touched on many of the [...]

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Sustainable Lawns Revisited

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Yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer had a great article by Virginia Smith: The complexities of Greening your lawn which refers to lawns as “drug addict in need of detox.” She points out the dangers of toxic chemicals to people and pets, and the dangers of not using these chemicals properly. This is a very good review of [...]

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Why Lawns are not Sustainable in Conservation Gardening

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The American Lawn is the Best Illustration of Unsustainable Practice In order to fully understand sustainability in conservation gardening, it is quite illuminating to look at examples of unsustainable practice. There is no better illustration of this than the American lawn. We have idealized this concept so much that it has become the norm no [...]

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Why Your Garden is so Important for Ecosystem Gardening

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Habitat Loss due to Human Action is the Number One Cause of Species Decline We humans have an extraordinary propensity for building new things: shopping centers, malls, condos, office parks, suburban subdivisions, roads, parking lots, etc. This need to have more and more is really not a great situation for the wildlife that were thriving [...]