117
You're not crazy. Spring is getting earlier. Find out how it’s changed in your town. [Tool for US]
(wapo.st)
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
117 points (98.3% liked)
Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.
5246 readers
500 users here now
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Okay, good. I was starting to wonder if I was. I've mowed my lawn 3 times already this year (first in late February). I usually don't need to until much closer to April in my area.
Bit of a secret tip, you don’t need to mow lawns. That stuffs just boomerism, even better if you replace it with native flora.
Invasives are invasive for a reason: they outcompete the natives. No one would care about them if they didn't.
That means you need to intervene if you want the natives to survive. So if you really want a no-mow native garden and aren't in some natural desert or such, you're committing to a lot of work to maintain that useful, healthy native garden. Weeding, care and attention, re-seeding, researching, undoing the soil damage caused by years/decades of unsustainable practices, and all that.
I encourage anyone to do it. I totally understand if people don't have the time to do it and just prefer mowing a few times a month to maintain turf grass -- in my area, turf grass is ALSO native and mowing is HOW you maintain it, absent the grazing animals that once would've handled that.
Yeah, I tried to do the whole no-mow thing for a while. Between invasive vines shading the soil and heavy rains washing the now-loose soil away, my backyard is pretty much dead.
But where will I host my royal garden parties?
In the garden? Please tell me you haven't been hosting lawn parties and calling them garden parties. I am positively clutching my pearls.