Lawns are the manifestation of human environmental hubris, and it’s hurting all of us. Regular readers of Things Are Good know that lawns are bad for a myriad of reasons (see links below for more info), and municipal leaders have caught on to this too. In the warmer, dryer areas
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Things Are Good: Join the No-Mow May Campaign
Pollinators love the spring and they love your lawn….until you cut it. Spring time is when pollinators need a quick get up and go meal, which usually comes from those peppy plants popping through your lawn early in the season. You can help pollinators survive the spring by just being
Continue readingThings Are Good: Stop Mowing Your Lawn to Save the Planet and Your Time
Lawns are unnatural and require a lot of maintenance, so why do we have them? As a non-lawn person I just don’t get the appeal of a lawn when there are so many better alternatives which require less work to maintain. It turns out I’m not the only one baffled
Continue readingScripturient: Dandelions and civilization
Whenever I see a lawn with dandelions, I think, “This is the home of civilized people. This is the home of people who care about the environment and their community. This is where bees are welcome.” When I see a monoculture lawn, bereft of weeds or dandelions, I think, “Here
Continue readingThings Are Good: Worried About Mass Extinction? Kill Your Lawn
A UN report released today reveals that 1 million species a threatened with extinction thanks to human actions (as in YOU!). The most effective thing we can do is vote out politicians who hate the future, but that takes time and we need to act now. Immediately you can stop
Continue readingThings Are Good: Kansas is Growing Roadside Grass
Highways are loved in America due to their ability to allow single occupant vehicles to move uninterrupted, thus they crisscross the entirety of the United States. This makes for a lot of land covered by asphalt, cars spattering litter, brake dust, exhaust onto the roadside, and large swaths of manicured
Continue readingPostArctica: Still Life With Pasta #16
At the river today…
Continue readingThings Are Good: The Oppression of Lawns
The concept of a lawn at a residence has a short, but rich, history. Basically, the rich had large estates and to demonstrate their wealth they had large swaths of land not used for cultivation. Today there are still people trying to show off their wealth by owning large lands of uselessness. Things seem to […]
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Continue readingcartoon life: Seven little cats in the grass
It’s been a week of tired. Sometimes I despair that so much is on the edge. I have no work held back, no posts queued up, no drawings hovering. Then you just make a mark, and something happens, and you just follow it. So this is fresh – last night
Continue readingcartoon life: Dangerous jungle cat
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