Lawns may contribute to global warming

[Joe Cocker]

The catch phrase is may contribute to. I think black top is better for global warming. I'll keep my green grass.

www.csmonitor.com/.../Lawns-may-contribute-to-global-warming

[sonnypie]

I think farting liberals are responsible for more global warming than my lawn.
(Which factually produces oxygen by photosynthesis)

[ferrous]

One would have to consider the added CO2 of pumping and distributing the water along with the gas powered tools in keeping it neat and trimmed.

I prefer trees.

Sonny, if you hand pump the water and mow with a push mower, I say "Right on Dude" go for that luscious green lawn.

I pulled out my front lawn and just keep a nice area in the backyard to enjoy

[sonnypie]

Never been in a Hydro-Electric plant that produced CO2.
But I've sure seen a lot of talking heads that do.

Besides, I gave away my lawnmower, ferrous.
We now have Juan Mendoza to do the yards.
(There aren't any Japanese gardeners anymore.)

And hey you, I use an electric Mantis Tiller for my garden.
So I'm gas free.
Especially since my acid reflux is under control now....

[ferrous]

So it's Juan Mendoza that's generating the CO2. Does Al Gordo get Juan paying for his CO2 footprint?

I had to give my front lawn up, not because of the CO2 generated in maintaining it but because of the new tier rates of water consumption, keeping it green, on a large corner lot.

My bill would spike from $20 a month to over $100 during the watering season. Greenist lawn on the street (actually one of only a few - till I gave it up.)

Just in the process of planting a few more trees and drought resistant bushes and plants.

And yes, I still have to mow the back field.

I was wrong about lawns:

One acre of managed turfgrass will hold about 1.03 Mg/ha/yr. In regular language, this is 0.46 tons, or 920 lbs. of carbon in a year.

The average amount of carbon emitted from a mower is 0.08 tons, or 160 lbs. per acre per year. So… 920 lbs. sequestered, minus 160 lbs. emitted by mowing, equals 760 lbs. of carbon storage.

We are commonly advised to give lawns one inch of water a week. On an acre of lawn, this equals 27,154 gallons of water. Let’s say we irrigate our theoretical acre only six times a year (an arbitrary number, on the low side between “never” for some lawns and 15-20 times a year for others). This rather infrequent watering consumes almost 163,000 gallons per year.

Multiplying this amount of water by 0.01 (from the Portland audit), the CO2 emissions amount to 1,630 lbs. per acre. Because 1 lb. of CO2 equals 0.28 lbs. of carbon, this is equivalent to 456 lbs. of carbon molecules emitted due to occasional irrigation.

We are now down to a theoretical carbon sink of 120 lbs, in a whole acre of lawn.

Source: nativeplantwildlifegarden.com/is-lawn-a-carbon-sink/

A lawn is a Carbon Sink which takes CO2 out of the atmosphere.

[danceswithdogs]

Plant more lawns....friends in Utah say that deer are freezing to death in their area. I guess they did not get the word from Al Gordo about Glo-Balls warming.

[Joe Cocker]

We let the front lawn go to put in shore junipers and redwood chips. The back lawn never looks this good in 45 years. I bought a electric lawn mower, it's been rebuilt once in twelve years, had to take it to Sacramento's B&D re-builder. As I flew out to the midwest picked it up after our trip back. I do recommend flying out of Sacramento only adds twenty minutes but away better parking service plus no weather problems for California.

Cheap fertilizer try Alfalfa Pellets.

[Joe Cocker]

Dance, lawns died off in Utah or go dormant nothing to eat.