Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony

by Gordon T. Geballe, F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori, et al.

Book Overview

Americans love their lawns with a passion rarely seen in other countries; fifty-eight million Americans enthusiastically plant, weed, water, spray, and mow an estimated twenty million acres of lawn. But is our dedication to these lawns contributing to the serious environmental problems facing the planet? The authors in this book state that the lawn may be an ecological anachronism, and they argue that we must rethink the way we care for our lawns...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300054017
• ISBN13: 9780300054019
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.5"