271) Owen Wormser: Regenerating life and landscapes by turning lawns into meadows
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Owen Wormser, the author of Lawns Into Meadows, is the founder of Abound Design and the nonprofit Local Harmony, which is focused on encouraging community-driven regeneration.
In this podcast episode, Owen sheds light on the environmental and economic costs of maintaining lawns; how meadows can be regenerative, low-maintenance, and wildlife-friendly alternatives to lawns; and more.
Featured music: I Need Angels by Adrian Sutherland & Midnight Shine
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| 1:28.0 | If even a fraction of that area that is presently lawn, an area of the size of Washington |
| 1:34.4 | State, if that was transformed, 10% of it was transformed toward tomato, that would immediately |
| 1:41.7 | provide so much more habitat to pollinators and other animals and conserve |
| 1:48.7 | a significant amount of resources, fossil fuels, chemicals, fertilizers, all these things wouldn't be |
| 1:55.2 | required on that area. So it might seem like just transforming a single yard into a meadow doesn't really have that big of an impact, but it's really not the case. |
| 2:10.3 | That was Owen Wormser, the founder of Abound Design and his nonprofit called Local Harmony, which is focused on encouraging community-driven |
| 2:19.4 | regeneration. Owen's been building landscapes with a focus on sustainability and low-maintenance |
| 2:25.3 | design since 1998, and his latest book is Lons into Meadows. There are a lot of people calling |
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