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Published by Porterbrook
06-09-2009 |
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Equilibrium
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06-09-2009, 07:35 PM
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![]() I ask myself every year why I still have a lawn... albeit not manicured. Great article.
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#2
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Porterbrook
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06-11-2009, 04:33 AM
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![]() Everytime I look at the lawn mower and wonder if it will even start, I run for the spade, rake and hoe and create another garden space for my native plants. This is the kind of energy I like to use--and it is renewable! Thank you for your kind words.
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#3
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Equilibrium
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06-11-2009, 11:24 PM
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![]() We're still slaves to a lawn by me. We reduce it when we can, don't water it any more, and don't fertilize it or use weed killers on it at all. Sooner or later it will all be gone. Little by little over the years and we whittle away at it. Very nice article.
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#4
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Pahinh Winh
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12-14-2009, 11:57 AM
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![]() About the "American" lawn is its color. I've been "on" about this since I was a teenager, & I'm a great-grandmother now. Maybe with 2 of us raising stink about the utter stupidity of wasting over 12 million gallons of oil a year mowing, & who-knows-how-many gallons of oil on making pesticides/herbicides (which are all carginogenic, not only to 2-leggeds, but also to every other species..), maybe a bunch more people will climb on the wagon with us & quit making their lawns look like the tops of pool tables. Maybe. The difference between 'ignorance' & 'stupidity', I figured out when I was 15 or so is, ignorance means a person doesn't know a thing is wrong, so they do it; while stupidity means a person knows a thing is wrong & does it anyway. Ignorance is much easier to cure than stupidity.... But we have to keep trying. Mitakuye oiasin - All (are) my relatives. That means we all have an obligation to do our best to take care of all parts of the biosphere (our Holy Mother, the Earth); not do as some cultural nuttiness tries to dictate.
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#5
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Porterbrook
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12-14-2009, 01:33 PM
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![]() We must all be teachers as well as students if we hope to change the attitudes of those who ignore Mother Earth and choose not to be a part of the Sacred Hoop.
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