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Turf Warfare

andyensor | 28.05.2007 12:59 | Ecology

Trafalgar Square has been turfed over, at great expense of energy and resourses -- only to be removed after two day! What a waste.





Trafalgar Square has been turfed over, at great expense of energy and resourses -- only to be removed after two day! What a waste -- they even have the cheek to call this guerrilla gardening...

While the lawn has captured peoples imagination, causing people to wish it could be like this every day, it has done little for our environmental problem or green space within the city. Lawns are the asphalt of the gardening world, decadent to our control of nature. Lawns are rolled out over everything, preended and mowed -- stiffling the ability of a thriving diverse ecosystem to develop. While we celebrate the effort of the city to green up the spaces, it would seem it has been a bit of a false start.

The pollution emitted from a power mower in one hour is equal to driving 350 miles
NIERING, W Lawn Order [online]  http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA12/lawn498.html
Lawns like this on average use ten times as many chemicals per acre as industrial farmland.
COBURN, H Food Not Lawns [online]  http://www.foodnotlawns.com/lawns_to_gardens.html

Thursday night, the guerrilla gardeners decided to plant a pansy on the lawn to disrupt it's monocultural demand, and we are holding the removed piece of turf as ransom to the highest bidder on ebay, where the turf will hopefully go to a better use. Many people were very pleased to see the pansy and stoped to take photographs. Even when a security guard apprached to remove the plant, he was met by a outburst of 'boos' and a cheer when he left it alone. The people of London want real greenary, not just token greenary.

 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320118801637

andyensor
- e-mail: andyensor@yahoo.co.uk
- Homepage: http://www.guerrillagardening.org/