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Thu. 09/29 - Are Lawns ALL Bad?

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Lawns are terrible for the environment, but is ripping them out all together the right answer? Plus, why decorating your home for the holidays is, actually, really good for your health. And other facts I’m overhyping to justify the many decorative gourds in my house… And a very popular discontinued item that might be returning to McDonald’s next month. Sponsor: American Musical Supply, Use code COOL at https://ter.li/AmericanMusicalSupply-COOL for $20 off your next purchase of over $100 Links: Lawns Are Dumb. But Ripping Them Out May Come With a Catch (Wired) Why the Great American Lawn is terrible for the West's water crisis (CNN) Your Perfect Lawn Is Bad for the Environment. Here's What to Do Instead (Discover Magazine) Can Decorating For Fall Make You Happier? Experts Weigh In. (HuffPost) McDonald's May Bring Back a Beloved Blast From its Past (The Street) McDonald's Halloween Buckets Could Be Back This Fall (CNET) Celebrating 35 Years Of McDonald’s Halloween Buckets (Nightmare Nostalgia) Episode Five - McHalloween (Preserve Halloween) McDonald's is selling Happy Meals to adults — with a twist (CNN) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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sunexpress.com and secure your seats today it's thursday september 29th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Lawns are terrible for the environment,

0:44.3

but is ripping them out altogether the right answer? Plus, why decorating your home for the holidays

0:50.6

is actually really good for your health, and other facts I'm overhyping to

0:55.9

justify the many decorative gourds in my house. And a very popular discontinued item that

1:03.1

might be returning to McDonald's next month. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

1:11.4

You have perhaps heard the backlash against lawns.

1:16.3

It's one of the things Gen Z is especially vocal about.

1:19.9

If millennials killed department stores and cable TV and home ownership,

1:25.1

Gen Z is already getting busy with killing off things like lawns and

1:29.2

almond milk. Don't even get them started on soy, you troglodyte. Though, like with everything

1:35.9

millennials have allegedly killed, some of the things that Gen Z dislikes is because we've

1:40.5

left them in a world in which the thing in question is no longer feasibly within reach,

1:45.4

or because it turns out, it's actually pretty bad for us or the environment.

1:50.9

Case in point, lawns.

1:53.7

It's not just that keeping up with mowing as often as your HOA demands it is annoying,

1:59.0

though that whole premise is a large contributor to the problem.

2:02.4

Lawns these days are rarely grown from plants native to the local ecosystem, especially in

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