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LAWN MOWING MADNESS - ONE PRIZE FIGHTS BACKSubmitted by Jeff Buster on Sat, 06/19/2010 - 12:05.
The City of New York Parks and Recreation Department and The American Society of Landscape Architects have officially endorsed a competition - named ONE PRIZE - for creating productive green space in Cities. The Competition SemiFinalists have been chosen and their portfolios PDFs are online. Take a look at the link to view the clever ideas for rejecting mowing for urban growing. Even Scotts knows mowing is madness - requiring seeding, weeding, feeding, herbicides, wasted water, wasted gasoline, noise and air pollution - all resulting in ZERO useful product.
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