If you mow your lawn with an electric lawn mower that’s charged via solar panels, your lawn is a carbon sink (assuming you water it via some renewable means).
Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement
3abas@lemmy.world 1 week agoIt doesn’t require constant watering and fertilizer that leeches into ground water just so you can have perfectly green 2" tall grass fully exposed to the sun that doesn’t want to live there and call it “nature”.
riskable@programming.dev 1 week ago
absentbird@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They never should have ripped the solar panels off the Whitehouse.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 1 week ago
If you’re going to get nitpicky we could focus on how much heat the concrete retains vs plant life which can absorb and use the energy. All the people with concrete or rock yards around here are super hot, my dog and I have to run by in the summer. Paving vast surfaces is a poor alternative to landscaping. The soil underneath will dry and the animals, insects, microflora, etc will all be forced out and that part of the earth will just be dead.
But really it just looks dumb and Jackie planted some of those trees.