Re: lawns and global warming

**N* S* <N*@PlantSoup.Com>**

If anyone is interested in the full, published article (this would be  
the article that the researchers published in one of the scientific  
journals), I have that and will email it to you ..   Let me know off- 
line please.

On Jan 22, 2010, at 5:08 PM, Judy Lowe wrote:

> Since lawns -- and getting rid of them -- are often a topic on this  
> list, I thought I'd mention a new study from UC Irvine that came out  
> this week, in case you haven't seen it. It says that although grass  
> does sequester carbon in the soil, the greenhouse gases created in  
> caring for turfgrass (mowing, dethatching, watering, etc.) negate  
> the benefit. The researchers actually say that greenhouse gas  
> emissions would be lower if lawns didn't exist.
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> http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Bright-Green/2010/0122/Lawns-may-contribute-to-global-warming
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> http://today.uci.edu/news/nr_turfgrass_100119.php
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> Judy Lowe
> http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/gardening
> http://twitter.com/Digginit
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