If you’re really concerned about the environment then maybe this will interest you or force you to buy a goat(s). I wonder if an environmentally concerned person with a manicured lawn should be labelled a hypocrite?
https://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/fa...onment.htm
The alternative:
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/more-sustai...grass-lawn
Excerpt: In a case of taking “the grass is always greener” a bit too literally, American homeowners have long strived to make their lawns brighter, lusher, and more velvety than their neighbors’. But all that competition has a devastating environmental impact. Every year across the country, lawns consume nearly 3 trillion gallons of water a year, 200* million gallons of gas (for all that mowing), and 70 million pounds of pesticides
*EPA Stats in first article state 800 million gallons of gas. Who do you believe?
https://www.peoplepoweredmachines.com/fa...onment.htm
The alternative:
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/more-sustai...grass-lawn
Excerpt: In a case of taking “the grass is always greener” a bit too literally, American homeowners have long strived to make their lawns brighter, lusher, and more velvety than their neighbors’. But all that competition has a devastating environmental impact. Every year across the country, lawns consume nearly 3 trillion gallons of water a year, 200* million gallons of gas (for all that mowing), and 70 million pounds of pesticides
*EPA Stats in first article state 800 million gallons of gas. Who do you believe?