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August 6, 2009, 9:05 am
Middlebury College recently sent us this video, which details the environmental and economic impact of mowing the vast expanses of lawns on the campus. Middlebury officials have decided to stop mowing some parts of the green, both to cut carbon emissions and to save money.
Middlebury joins a number of colleges that are already doing this — notably, Cape Cod Community College.
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One Response to Economic and Environmental Pressures Lead to Less Mowing at Middlebury College
greenhills73 - August 6, 2009 at 5:17 pm
How funny. My son tries to use this as an excuse not to mow the lawn at home, but it doesn’t fly. You can only let it get so high before the city cites you for code violations. And then when he does finally mow, it is very difficult to get the mower through it. And a lot of fields that look like a lot of overgrown weeds are called, “Natural prairie grass.”