
It's a Saturday, and you're out shopping at your favorite garden and home center. You notice even they have reusable shopping bags. You pause at first because in your mind you connect the bags with reusable grocery bags in the grocery stores. But then you think, what is really green around the house? Your lawn and garden!While many people feel a green lawn is vanity, it also serves many important environmental purposes. A green and healthy garden acts as a carbon dioxide sink, cleaning the air of the CO2 from fossil fuels. A healthy, deep-rooted lawn also helps control rainwater by soaking it up. Water rolls off of poor condition lawns like an asphalt parking lot. A healthy lawn and garden also provides a habitat to insects and wildlife in a replacement habitatWhen a community is built, the original ecosystem is destroyed, replaced by an artificial one. When taking care of the lawn, the products that you put into your reusable shopping bag determine what is green, not the fact they are in a bag thats green.When there is a problem with weeds, the initial impulse is to buy weed killer. These are chemicals to kill weeds and destroy biological
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