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		<title>trading lawns for frogs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A study of amphibians found that in suburban ponds of CT, about 21% of frogs were deformed, like males growing eggs inside their testes. Probably the result of lawn care products&#8230; Lawns are stupid: we destroy nature, what has been there far longer than Europeans on these lands, to try to grow a plant which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/frogs-the-thin-green-line/introduction/4763/">A study of amphibians</a> found that in suburban ponds of CT, about 21% of frogs were deformed, like males growing eggs inside their testes. Probably the result of lawn care products&#8230;</p>
<p>Lawns are stupid: we destroy nature, what has been there far longer than Europeans on these lands, to try to grow a plant which will not survive without all sorts of chemicals, machinery and energy to protect it, to show others that we too adhere to the same cultural standard for &quot;well-kept&quot; land, at the sacrifice of nature and the environment.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve said it before but these kind of ground keeping is an arms race of suburbia where we all lose.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t sustainable nature beautiful?    <br />Who&#8217;s really impressed with a lawn of cut grass?</p>
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