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