Redesigning the American Lawn:
A Search for Environmental Harmony, 2nd Edition

by F. Herbert Bormann;  Diana Balmori;  Gordon T. Geballe

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Redesigning the American Lawn examines the American fanaticism with well-kept lawns and emphasizes shaping a new aesthetic for a new ecological front-yard ethic. It proposes managing lawns to reduce the present use of pesticides and power mowers through various alternative methods including human-powered mowers and native plantings. This revised edition includes a new chapter and illustrations showing progress made over the last decade.

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Publisher Yale University Press PO Box 209040 New Haven, CT 06520-9040 Phone: 800-405-1619 Fax: 800-406-9145 www.yale.edu/yup/

Available as: book (paperback) Length: 192 pages Published: 2001 ISBN: 0300086946 LOC: SB433 .B64 2001

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