Examples include water conservation, preventing erosion and soil degradation, minimizing air, soil, and water pollution, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Sustainable practices in landscaping are those practices which attempt to minimize or eliminate harm to our environment. In the textbook Sustainable Landscaping: Practices and Principles, it refers to sustainable landscaping as the problems of environmental harm caused by human practices in the process of constructing, implementing, and managing our residential and commercial landscapes. Sharon Hall, Professor, Arizona State University How can listeners landscape in a way that minimizes the impact on the environment?ĭr. Who are the leaders in sustainable landscaping? How can we bring about more sustainable landscapes at scale? What is the impact of landscaping on our environment? What do we mean by sustainable landscaping? Learn more about the natural environment here! Episode Intro Notes Let’s put on some gardening gloves as we get our hands dirty diving into sustainable landscaping!
Sharon Hall, ecosystem ecologist and professor at the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, provides insights from her research on how humans interact with the residential landscape and from her own landscaping experience.
You’ll hear about the many impacts of landscaping our environment, including the crazy amount of air pollution that comes from gas powered equipment, as well as techniques you can use to maintain a landscape you enjoy with less impact on the environment. This episode considers the footprint of all kinds of man-made and maintained landscapes, particularly the around 50 million acres of lawn in the United States. We love that, but it’s also important to think about how we got those landscapes and how we can maintain them more sustainably. Many Definers may enjoy laying in a lush, green lawn staring up at a blue sky while listening to the latest Sustainability Defined episode.
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