How Healthy Lawns Help Fight Climate Change
A healthy, well-maintained lawn offers a variety of environmental advantages. In this 10-part series, we’ll look at how lawns can contribute to a more sustainable climate and planet.
Benefit #1: Carbon Storage
Natural turfgrass acts as an efficient carbon sink, helping reduce the impact of climate change. Its large leaf surface area outperforms many other plants in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, making it exceptionally effective at carbon capture.
Remarkably, a properly cared-for lawn can store twice as much carbon in one year as a single tree can over ten years.
Practices such as mowing at a higher setting, leaving grass clippings on the lawn, watering deeply but less often, and applying the right nutrients all help develop strong root systems and vigorous turf. With warm soil and cooler air, autumn is the ideal season to nourish and restore lawn health.
Benefit #1: Carbon Storage
Natural turfgrass acts as an efficient carbon sink, helping reduce the impact of climate change. Its large leaf surface area outperforms many other plants in absorbing carbon from the atmosphere, making it exceptionally effective at carbon capture.
Remarkably, a properly cared-for lawn can store twice as much carbon in one year as a single tree can over ten years.
Practices such as mowing at a higher setting, leaving grass clippings on the lawn, watering deeply but less often, and applying the right nutrients all help develop strong root systems and vigorous turf. With warm soil and cooler air, autumn is the ideal season to nourish and restore lawn health.
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