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VIDEO ... Why the largest irrigated crop in the U.S. is in your front yard

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Peter Burgess
Why the largest irrigated crop in the U.S. is in your front yard 6,687 views Grist Published on May 2, 2019 Lawns suck up water, fertilizer, and time. Here's a look at how we got into this mess -- and where we could go from here. Sources: The Lawn: A history of an American Obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins LIFE magazine, 1969 Milesi, 2005 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1... USDA, 2017 https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/resu... https://quickstats.nass.usda.gov/resu... U.S. Census Bureau, 2019 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RH... Metropolitan Integration Research Center, 1979 https://www4.uwm.edu/eti/Archives/Rac... CityLab, Martin Prosperity Institute, 2018 https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/0... Houzz Landscape Trends https://www.greenindustrypros.com/bus... Extra reading and watching: Michael Pollan with the case against lawns back in 1989 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/28/ma... Another book on lawn history American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn - Ted Steinberg Scientific American on American lawn love https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/... Tips for what to do with your own lawn https://tataandhoward.com/2015/06/10-... Category Film & Animation
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