You Can Garden How You Want, But....
.... the ethical imperative to garden differently is glaring. This from AMERICAN GREEN by Ted Steinberg:
1) Between 1994 and 2004, an estimated average of 75,884 Americans each year were injured using lawn mowers, or roughly the same number of people injured by firearms.
2) Using a gas-powered leaf blower for half an hour creates as many polluting hydrocarbon emissions as driving a car 7,700 miles at a speed of 30mph.
3) Approximately 7 million birds die each year because of lawn-care pest...
1) Between 1994 and 2004, an estimated average of 75,884 Americans each year were injured using lawn mowers, or roughly the same number of people injured by firearms.
2) Using a gas-powered leaf blower for half an hour creates as many polluting hydrocarbon emissions as driving a car 7,700 miles at a speed of 30mph.
3) Approximately 7 million birds die each year because of lawn-care pest...
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