48 Reasons Not To Mow 37 Ways To Help Trees

LINKS
Food Not Lawns and Wild Urban Gardeners
http://www.culturechange.org
http://www.sierraclub.org/compass/2...ower-nation.asp
http://fruitarians.blogspot.com
http://dontmow.blogspot.com
http://www.epa.gov
http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/

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Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and many other films,made his first film at age 8.. an anti mowing film which showed the nature of mowers' attacks on lawns.

In 2003 through now, the world has seen floods, famine, fire,mudslides, hurricanes, tornados and other disasters created bythe unprecedented destruction of trees around the world. Trees are nature's weather stabilizers. We need trillions of trees.. new trees.

ISAIAH: "BREAK NOT THE BRUISED REED"
THE FIFTH ANGEL OF REVELATION: " HARM NO GREEN LIVING BEING"
BUDDHA: MAY ALL THAT HAVE LIFE BE DELIVERED FROM SUFFERING
BHAGAVAD GITA: OF TREES I AM THE FIG
MAHAVIRA OF THE JAINS: KILL NOT CAUSE NO PAIN TO ANY BEING.
JOEL 1: THE LAND MOURNS THE DESTRUCTION OF PLANTS

GROW FREE FOOD .PREVENT MOWER ACCIDENTS .PROTECT SAPLING TREES .CREATE OXYGEN .SAVE TIME . CONSERVE FUEL .SAVE MONEY .GUARD FREEDOM .INVOKE RAIN. STABILIZE WEATHER PATTERNS . STOP MUDSLIDES .BUFFER NOISE. PREVENT FLOODS .FOSTER WILDLIFE HABITAT . FILTER AIR

http://www.epa.gov/greenacres http://www.nrdc.org/(not in the order of importance)In the last few years the EPA has joined theenvironmental groups promoting nonmowing. Their site ishttp://www.epa.gov/ .. type in 'natural landscaping' in search tobring upmany sites. The Green Party http://www.greens.org/ and many Libertarians also support nonmowing. In June of 2002, NPR reported that the Congressional Black Caucus has a better record than either white Democrats or white Republicans in environmental issues.
I: ENVIRONMENTAL (THE REDUCTION OF ENVIRONMENTALMANIPULATION)
1. REFORESTATION When one stops mowing, land becomes meadow and then thicket and then woods. reforesting the world.
2. OXYGEN CREATION This extra greenery creates oxygen.The average tree creates 5 pounds of oxygen daily.
3. AIR PURIFICATION More greenery purifies the air through leaf filtration a.particulate matter b.car fumes c.noxious gases d.other airborn toxins. Removal of carbon dioxide by plants ameliorates pollution.
4. TEMPERATURE STABILIZATION Warms the world's winters and cools the summers. There is a 50 degree difference between 70 degree equatorial rainforest and 120 degree desert. Each blade of grass is a little air conditioner. A world without drought, flood, famine, freezes, and killer heat can be eliminated by literally coveringthe world with trees.
5. RAIN INVOCATION Greenery calls down rain. Bayard Webster of the NY Times wrote that each mature tree evaporates 40 gallons of moisture daily (much greater amounts for older trees.) All greenery is involved in the raincycle.The drought and consequent starvation in N. Korea was related to the cutting of nearly all trees for fuel.
6. DEW PRESERVATION More plants preserve dew. Not only do greenspires and leaves act as masts around which dew can gather, but the more greenery the longer the dew lasts.
7. NOISE BUFFER Leaf volume weaves a noise buffer which screens out unpleasant traffic
8. NOISE PREVENTION Ends the peace-fracturing sound of the lawnmower. Some communities have noise ordinances which prevent mowing during normal sleeping hours.
9. VISUAL BEAUTY Multiplies the beauty of diversity
10. FRAGRANCE Multiplies the fragrance in the air.
11. HEALING GREEN Nonmowing creates optical healing bycreating more greenery. Research has proven that looking on the jadeand forest greens reduces heartbeat and creates peace.
12. LANDFILL ECONOMY Letting lawns grow wild reduces pressure onlandfills..by not adding leaves to overburdenedsystems (and saves the fuel and wages of collectionreleasing workers for the labor of their hearts). (NPR Sept 1:methanegases leach from landfill through water into basements) As the worldevolves away from treekilling, sawdust piles which are a byproductof the lumber industry will be removed, making the earth safer forchildren.
13. FUEL CONSERVATION Conserves fuel a. unused inunused mowersb. As evergreen trees break cold winter winds andshroud dwellings they are natural insulation.
14. HYDROCARBON REDUCTION Prevents hydrocarbon moweremission from polluting the air. Many media outlets are passing ontheEPA recommendation that lawns not bemowed when there is great humidity and heat. Hydrocarbons createozonealerts.
15. CARBON DIOXIDE Greenery which takes in carbondioxide and breathes out oxygen reduces gases toxic to humans.
15a. METHANE GAS and toxic gases are purified by leaf action.
16. TORNADO PREVENTION Unstable heat is the mainfactor in tornados. Greenery which reduces the temperature 30 degreesin forest areas prevents tornados.
17. MUDSLIDE PREVENTION: The roots of living plantsabsorb great amounts of water and prevent mudslides.
18. FLOOD PREVENTION:A. On river banks and everywhere, tree, plant, bush,and vine roots are flood preventers. As David Kidd of Canton, planterofmore than a million trees has stated, the bigger and older the treethemore work it does. (The 900 year old oaks with their huge diametersare a lot more precious to Mother Earth than skinny young trees.http://www.freetree.org/ B. Ohio Public Radio David C. Barnett Sept 9th: reported on reductionof impervious surface by reducing concrete and addinggreenery. (The hard asphalt, concrete, and rooftops create morerunoff and flooding.) C. Bricks and stones in roads are better for theenvironment than are concrete and asphalt. They allow rain throughtheinter-brick space and have less blistering heat. Angel strips notdevilstrips (Planting grape trellises over highways re-greens theearth and creates food.)
19. PREVENT DESERTIFICATION Only reforestation canprevent desertification. This is the conclusion of Patrick Velasquezof USAgency For International Development and most otherenvironmentalists. We used to think a pine cone was one seed, butapparently it is hundreds.
20. REDUCE CHEMICAL POLLUTION: Radio network showPublic Interest October 7 featuring Rodale author: Chemically treatedlawns are grass high on drugs.: Fertilizer has toxic byproducts forthe land and water. Rodale, Emmaus Pennsylvania, USA 18049 is oneleader in the organic movement.
21. FASTEST CLEANUP OF TOXIC DUMPS
Green island sanctuaries of unmolested plants,insects, and wildlife are a protection against the biotechmanipulationsof the environment.
22. WATERSHED PROTECTION The more greenery, plants, vines, trees, and bushes..the more the watershed, reservoirs, and lakes and ponds, brooks andstreams are protected.a. Arsenic is a byproduct of the pressed woodindustry. Arsenic is poisonous in the waters, and likeother industrial pollutants such as mercury, chromiumand polychlorinated biphenols is concentrated in the flesh of fishes.http://www.nofishing.net/ http://www.pcrm.org/ http://www.ivu.org/
23. BIODIVERSITY Nonmowing or letting God be the landscaper createsbiodiversity and its many benefits (and benefirs) rather thanmonoculture. (Loggers last year caused the death of David Chain,Earth First tree activist. Write efmc@a... or call 707 923 2114Andy Caffrey)
24. FIRE PREVENTION In March of 2001, widescale drought in the NW had been reported. Destruction of greenery is one cause of this. Trees'evaporation is necessary in cloud formation. Fires have
destroyed untold tens of thousands
of square miles of green beings
and resident animals.
25. FLOOD PREVENTION Nonmowing causes naturalreforestation. Tree roots on river banks prevent floods.
26. WATER CONSERVATION: Unmowed areas do not needwatering.. they are self contained systems. Nor do they needrecycling.
27. INSECTICIDE PREVENTION: Carpet lawn enthusiastspollutethe environment with insecticides in some cases.

II HUMAN RIGHTS: (Numbers 19 through 31)

1. FEEDING THE HUNGRY: FOOD CREATION Prevents famineby giving a cornucopia of free food to the planet Orchards are 450times as productive per acre as slaughterhouses..Dr. Faust,former chief of the USDA Fruit Labs, cited centenarian orchards ofapple trees dropping two tons each of food. This is 400,000 lbs peracreas compared to 100 to 1000 lbs of food for meat, 10,000 lbs fordairy, 80,000 lbs. for acre. The 400 to l ratio is only the firststep. Trilevel agriculture.. with bean and other vines around thetree trunks and other foodyielding plants in the interarborealspaces.. yield even more. This also can be multiplied by those areaswhich have 2 or 3 growing seasons..e.g. Southern California. Becausecertain economic systems promote scarcity based profit, these orchardsystems have been deemphasized.
2. PREVENTION OF DEATH AND INJURY 2a. Prevents in the U.S. alone, 75,000 accidents and some fatalities annually caused bymowers and harvesters, and around the world millions of accidentseliminated. NPR reported May 17, 2002 that tractor rollovers are the leading cause of death among farmers, and that farming in general is the 2nd most hazardous occupation (after commercial fishing).
2b. Ravines are generally more protected from mowing,as there is wider recognition of the danger of mowing.
2c. When grass is mowed on hillsides, when wet orexceedingly dry it can cause slipping accidents.
2d, There have even been drownings
from lawnmower accidents as teens
and adults drop into unseen septic
tanks.
2e. One of every 5 lawnmower or
machine harvester deaths, says
the Consumer Product Safety
Commissions, involves a child.

(19 through 38 are human rights
reasons)
3. PREVENTION OF HEART ATTACKS As non shoveling ofsnow can prevent winter heart attacks nonmowing can sometimespreventsummer heart attacks.
4. FREEDOM Health departments are reducing the forcedcrewcutting of lawns and the rending ofMother Nature's garments . See below for further info.
5. EMPTY JAILS Saves money otherwise spent on jailing people (seeabove)
6. PRIVACY Creates a privacy screen. Ways to avoidgrass (a transitional plant unless land is constantly mowed) includea. pachysandra b. myrtle and other ground cover c. grape vinetrellises d. evergreen trees and shrubs as natural fences e.berry bushes as natural boundaries.
7. HERBAL REMEDIES Nonmowing allows healing extracts and seeds to flourish, e.g. milkthistle seeds, which regenerate cirrhosis-afflicted livers. The active ingredient is silymarin. (Herbology studentembyrne@s... is a non mower) Work against those who seek to patentthe world's pre-existing seeds. http://www.purefood.org/ (see Monsantofile.)
8. KEEPS WASPS FRIENDLY prevents wasp stings and hiveattacks as their homes are destroyed.
9. ECONOMICS a. saves money otherwise spent on fuel b. Saves money otherwise spent on young trees.c. Fruit trees ave money spent on food.
10. TIME ECONOMY frees human time hours for enjoyablepriorities a. no gas procurement time, no mowing time, no rakingtime.
11. AMERICAN HERITAGE: The Native American culturenever spent time mowing Mother Earth. Her green cover is her garment.Lawn mowing is a fairly recent thing. The original lawn mowers weresheep and other animals later slaughtered for their flesh. The TimeLifeGardening Yearbook mentions the 'chipped monotypiclayer of bluegrass', the crewcut which is called alawn. Other ecologists speak about the hazards of monoculture.
12. FREE CONCERTS Cicadas and crickets will give freeconcerts, as will woodpeckers, songbirds whose habitats are restored.Fireflies will put on silent fireworks. Buttercupswill save chalices of dew for butterflies who in turn will coolthe earth with the slight breeze from their fanning wings.
13. WEED KILLER OR HERBICIDE use (Diane Rehm Show Sept1) causes childhood and other environmental pollutant basedcancers. Some leaches into the water system. Some is directly smearedonto skin.
14. INSECTICIDE BASED CANCERS: Insecticides weredeveloped as weapons in WW 2. At the end of the war, chemicalcompanies wanted new markets. These insecticides cause cancer. (NPRSept 1) Animal products concentrate insecticides at 21 times theintensity they occur in fruits and vegetables, since a 1000 lb.cow ate 21,000 lbs. of food with nondegradable insecticides remainingin the muscle cells.
15. PREVENTION OF ASTHMA
While the chief physical cause of asthma
is the mucus lining in the respiratory
tract created by meat, fish and dairy
products and the prime spiritual
cause is fear or emotional stress,
land allowed to grow gradually
into fields and then thickets and
finally woods provides less pollen.
16. HEALING: Studies of recovering gall bladder patients reveal that those looking on a garden heal faster than those not. (BJ 6 6 2000) There are now herbal therapists at Univ of Kansas, Rutgers, Texas A&M, and Virginia Tech. Those who look on living green have reduced blood pressure. The plant yarrow makes children in its proximity less agressive within a few moments. An ancient vedic parable says that to be healed one should look upongreen. Rather than paint the world that color, a sage says'put on green glasses'. (The best green glasses are living in an environment of green.)
(Plant rights advocates to not support
the killing of plants for herbs.)
17. PREVENTION OF GUN ACCIDENTS
There has been at least one shooting
caused by an irate reaction to
the noise of the lawnmower.
(Above are reasons 19 through 36)
18. PREVENTION OF MENTAL ILLNESS
Is it a form of control freakdom
to want to mow down what God
greengrows?
19. PREVENTION OF NEIGHBOR FIGHTS
Countless fights have been caused when someone's mower cuts down
his neighbor's flowers or shrubs.
20. HERBICIDES used by ChemLawn
and other lawn treatment companies
are poisoning the earth's waters,
causing cancer deaths to people,
animals, fishes, and plants.

COTTON PAPER LASTS FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS. TREEPAPER LASTS SIXY YEARS.

III ANIMAL RIGHTS:

1. WILDLIFE HABITAT Reprovides a home for wildlife,both those not endangered and those which are.Keeps birds from flying away when the power motors are started.
2 ANIMAL RIGHTS Protects insects, redwinged blackbirdsand other living creatures nesting in ground cover, and preventsthe mastication deaths of millions of small fieldanimals chewed up in harvesters.. (Sometimes the tiny feet of theseanimals can be seen in cans of food.) In Numbers 22, God causes a donkey to speak about the beatings of her human 'owner'.Along Lake Michigan in parts of Chicago are new signs indicating not mowing is done to give birds long grasses in which to nest.
3 PRESERVE WILDLIFE FOOD SUPPLY: Not removing acorns leaves food for squirrels and other wildlife during the winter as well as providing new sapling oaks in the spring. Not removing leaves provides more thermal shelter for northern animals.
4. SONGBIRDS ATTRACTED TO WILD AREAS...............James Marcus: Dandelions: they must be God's favorite flower for He plants them everywhere.

IV: PLANT RIGHTS .

1 PLANTS' RIGHTS Protect the rights of sentient plants whose feelingshave been documented by Dr. Chandra Bose, knighted by theQueen of England for his laboratory measurement of plantconsciousness. Other scientists who have proven or written of plantconsciousness ares are Clive Baxter, Luther Burbank, The Secret Life Of Plants writers,, the owner to whose rights, Isaac Tigrett, sold all the Hard Rock Cafes he founded after becoming a vegetarian. http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/...97/tigrett.html
Pachysandra, myrtle, snow on themountain,and camomile are some ground covers which do not offend moreconservative neighbors.
2: WILDFLOWER SANCTUARY Those like Lady Bird Johnsonwho have worked to foster protection of wildflowers know thenecessityof more wild places.
3: ENDING BOTANICAL RACISM E.Woodford is the first person who has spoken of botanical racism. This phrase means different things to different people. To us it means that weeds have as much right to exist as do plants with cultivated blooms.The spirit-filled volunteers called weeds are usually stronger, more and more prolific than cultivated plants.
V: DIVINE RIGHT:
1. Mother Earth blesses those who abandon controlling and manipulating her.
2. God does not like lawnmowers. (Joel 1: The land mourns the destruction of plants.) (Isaiah: Break not the bruised reed.)
3. George Bernard Shaw: I love little children, but I don't cutoff their heads and stick them in vases.IF YOU WILL JOIN THE EVERGREEN NETWORK PLEASE EMAIL USSO AT freelibrary27@y... There is no financial, action, orother obligation. In an editorial on March 19, 1977, the WashingtonPosteditorialized:"the tall grass can only benefit the citizens who seekthe beauty of Rock Creek Park". That year the NationalPark Service instituted a 'meadows' program to let some areasreturn to nature. The Post mentioned the federal court casevictory of an Akron citizen who fought the city's compulsorylawnmowing ordinance. "Nature is ready to cooperate.Some citizen cooperation is next." In addition the Post's RichardCohen reported on a lawn mowed by a guinea pig named Bijou.Phil Shenon of the New York Times has covered no-mow activistssuch as Alice Herrington, then president of Friends ofAnimals. The BBC, NPR, and Australian Broadcasting are someinternational networks which have covered theadvantages of nonmowing. The Los Angeles Times also editorialized infavor of not mowing. The Atlanta Constitution outlined reasonsnot to mow in an article by Lewis Regenstein. Omni Magazine, TheChristian Science Monitor, Organic Gardening, AnitaManning of USA Today, Vegetarian Times, OMNI magazine, Germannewspapers, and many other publications have promotedthe idea of nonmowing.Patrick Velasquez of the US Agency For InternationalDevelopment studied Senegalese forest. He said the cost ofplanting other country exotics there was $25 to $50 per tree,with 19% survival rate whereas natural regeneration (which occursfromnonmowing) is free. The USDA in 1998 has signed onto the NationalWildlife Federation's Backyard Conservation plan.. whichencourages people to let the area behind their homes grow wild forthesake of the environment.Even these corporate media and hunting promotiongroups are promoting the environment. 'Corn on the curb' is anincreasingly visible thing.

(poster apologizes that this article is not more international
in reference)
The Spanish poet Lorca,assassinated byFranco:"They cut timber and lioness teats as easily as if they were bakingbread". Sterling North: We are but the ephemera of the moment,the brief custodians of redwoods which were ancient when Christ wasborn. Recently the governor of one of the largest states in thecountrypromised to plant l million trees in his state andsaid that trees, do indeed, call down rain. (Those areas with themostdevastation this winter from icestorms, mudslides, flood and tornadowere for the most part places which had cut downtens of thousands of trees in the last 20 years.). The Nicaraguan Network Environmental Task Forcecalls on multinationals to stop devastating Atlantic forests.. linkedtoHurricane Mitch-The bombing of Afghanistan has been a factor in the drought..as trees which invoke rain were destroyed and river coursesaltered. Napalm burned the trees of Vietnam. At presentherbicides are being dropped in Colombia and Ecuador borders.Richard St Barbe Baker convinced Franklin Roosevelt, US president, toplant billions of trees.Garrison Kieler of Prairie Home Companion recently wrote a pieceabout a family which had decided not to mow.Other sites: http://www.mad-cow.org/ http://www.mccruelty.com/http://indymedia.org/ http://www.sierraclub.org/http://ww...t/fruitarian---(The city of Takoma Park, Maryland is one of many communitiesor countries which prohibit the cutting of trees of a certainage without a permit. India, Thailand .. which has bannedall lumber.. the UK are some tree respecting countries.)--- End forwarded message ---Mowing destroys animal habitat.last revised June 24, 2003

THIRTY SEVEN WAYS TO HELP TREES
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nom...t/fruitarianWhy is the area of most heat and light, theequator, only 70 degrees in equatorial rainforest and 130 degrees intemperate zone desert? Trillions of Trees. Trees as nature's weatherstabilizers, trees, accounting for a 60 degree difference betweenrainforest on the equator and temperate zone desert, have been felledat an unprecedented rate. Harming trees causes fire, flood, famine,tornado and hurricane. 29 ways to help trees:1. plant trees Work for city, state, country and UN tree plantinghttp://www.freetree.org/ 2. stop mowing http://www.epa.gov/greenacreshttp:/...sages/nomow/266 http://www.nrdc.org/These websites have files on not mowing3. eat tree products.. fruits and nuts.. say yes to orchard growershttp://www.acorn.net/fruitarian4. build with stone stucco brick and block not wood. You will a.prevent termite destruction nonviolently, b save the $,time, and environmental damage of paint, c have natural insulationwith its energy savings, d. prevent rotting woode. have better insulation in summer & winter f. end thedisease related to living near the mold from rotting wood g.reduce the arsenic in the watersystems, flowing in from pressedwood factories and h. have increasing rather than decreasing equityin your home. Use natural barriers such as bushes, or chain link,rather than wood fencing. http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/5. cancel daily newspaper..and magazines and newsletters printedon felled trees, as 72% of the young have get your news on the webhttp://www.protest.net/ Daily newspapers account for trillions oftrees slaughtered annually and most promote anti environmentcorporations.6. Print on cotton, recycled or scrap paper in downloading7. Use a water spray instead of toilet paper8. Buy food naturally packaged.. nuts in nut shells,bananas inpeels.. buy in bulk. Fruit is nature's most perfectly packaged food.How many trees go into cereal boxeshttp://www.goveg.com/meetmeat.html9. Use canvas bags for shopping.. neither plastic nor paperhttp://www.sierraclub.org/10. Stop eating meat, since cutting forests for cattlegrazing is a major cause of deforestation.. Animal fleshyields a maximum of 1000 lbs an acre. Tri level agriculture (fruittrees, vines and fruit bearing plants) yields over 450,000 lbs. peracre.) Meat's trioxypurine is more addictive than caffein'sdioxypurine.11. Work for peace.. work for an end to giving 10 million a dayto violent governments, for the outlawing of membership on armsmerchant boards by government officials (Lynne Cheney on theboard of Lockheed which wants to keep a 70 billion dollar planecontract) and elsewhere radically affecting weather patterns.. work for an end to CIA, Army and other weathermanipulation. In 1972 Seymour Hersh reported in the NY Timesthe CIA's attempts through cloud seeding to cause flooding inN Vietnam. [url]http://www.peta.net/feat/
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12. Save fruit seeds and scatter them in wild places
http://www.ran.org The average evaporation of mature trees is 42
gallons a day..which becomes mist, then clouds, and then rain,
eliminating drought.
13. Buy books and greeting cards published on cotton, rice, or other
nontree paper.
14. Purchase furniture which is used and refurbish it
or buy metal furniture with cotton padding. There are many nontree
furniture options. The furniture, lumber, and construction businesses
have lobbied for the cutting down of US forests, whereas the UK, some
cities in Maryland and California require a permit to cut down
old trees.
15. Vote out earth abusers.. Vote out the GOP which sometimes
receives 10 times the political contributions from earth abusers
that any other party receives. Vote in
Democrats or Greens or Libertarians depending on the situation
http://www.truthout.org
http://www.greens.org http://www.democrats.org (in some instances)
16. Avoid fast food places which deforest for their
packaging and create litter which fills dumpsites and requires
labor pickup http://www.vegdining.com http://www.mccruelty.com
17. visualize sun and green trees everywhere
18. pray
19. Outlaw junk mail (as telemarketers have been). File a form with
the main post office in your area. Return to sender. The GOP & junk
mailers are requiring you to subsidize their treekilling and
invasive practices as your postal rates go from 34 cents to
37 cents, an 8.1 cent inflation rate.
20. Recycle cardboard cartons at commerical establishments. Recycle
your own scrap paper.
21. Replace the purchase of dead Christmas trees which
cause many fires annually.. with artificial trees.. or
living ones planted each year in the year. Oregon is the biggest
Christmas tree killer with 7 billion a year in slaughter sales.
22. Save seeds of trees, vines, bushes, plants and
scatter them where mowing does not occur
23. Ban the cutting of trees entirely as Thailand has
down.(The United Kingdom has banned the cutting of trees
after they reach a certain width.. while Takoma Park Maryland in
the US and other cities have required a permit to cut older
trees. The United States is still a land of skinny trees, because
of present control of the Forest Svc. and National Park Service
by lumber mining oil and cattle interests) In Mumbai elephants
are threatened by logging, as well as by poaching and war.
24. Stop through lawsuits, networking etc. the 'controlled fires'
deliberately set by the US Park
Service and the Forest Svc... fires which often are made more lethal
by the unpredictable wind.. fires which at their best destroy
trees, animals, insects.
25. Work for workplace, home, library and other printouts
on cotton, recycled, or the back sides of already printed paper.
26. stop the control of national and state executive branch,
legislatures and courts by corporate contractors
27. network with other environmentalists
28. Disinvest mutual funds, pension funds from earth abusing
corporations such as Georgia Pacific and other tree killers.
29. Replace paper towels with washed cotton rags.
30. Contact the USPO to give you a Direct Marketing Assoc. form
.. which will stop both commercial and nonprofit junk mail
delivered to your home http://www.the-dma.org/
ADVO is the world's largest junk
mailer, killing trees both at the
beginning and at the end as
trees are bulldozed to make more
landfill in which to put ADVO junk
31. Fax gives trees the ax... phone and email are more direct
32. Toilet paper used for urine only can be put in paper
recyclers.
33.
please boycott insurance companies which mandate
the killing of trees... (sometimes land speculators buy homes
just long enough to put them on the market and profiteer
from the sale... after axing centenarian trees...
health departments too have joined in this anti health measure)
34. Legislate underground power lines to save trees. This is
done in several countries in Europe.
35. Clearcutting lumber and mining
companies have caused flash
floods around the world. One such
began over the destruction of
5000 homes near Beckley W. Va.
36. Lumber companies have put
a variety of poisons into the waters.
37. Lumber companies have
caused fires from dust accumulation
such as the one occurring in
Schofield Wisconsin in Oct. of 2005.
Fire chief Doug Jennings: "It is
my belief (the fire was caused by)
a dust explosion."

Raking leaves
1. wastes time 2. fills landfills 3. costs communities money
4. removes blanketing leaves from Mother Earth during winter
5. removes nuts which feed squirrels

http://www.keeper.org RFK suing the EPA over Buckeye in Ohio
which is giving cattle parts to chickens
http://www.ran.org Rainforest Action Network
http://www.greenpeace.org
http://www.sierraclub.org
http://www.mad-cow.org
http://www.paperretriever.com/ puts huge bins in parks
and elsewhere to collect newspaper, magazine, junk mail
and other paper waste

Father Mother God make the earth warm where it is cold
and cool it down in Indian areas in which it is too
hot. Make earth weather gentle and nonviolent now and forever.
Cause all to obey Your commands not to kill animals.. not to
kill plants. Genesis 1 29

Revised: Nov 23, 1926
Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and many other films,
made his first film at age 8.. an anti mowing film which
showed the nature of mowers' attacks on lawns.

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houses built with wood do not last in a tornado
as well as brick, stone, stucco, block homes

wood houses are painted.. painters often dump
their leftover toxins into the streams
Posted by sb11 on 02-25-2004 03:52 AM:

Court Cases, Books, Links

COURT CASES

In 1976 a federal court in Cleveland
Ohio ruled that the Akron Health
Department's forced mowing of
a woman's lawn violated her
1st Amendment freedom of religion
since it is impossible to mow without
killing beings. Attorneys William
Whitaker and Beverly Rose wrought
a $500 judgment against the
Health Dept.

Staff of the pre Bush EPA of Chicago (Atty Rappoport
and others) have developed supportive
briefs for those wishing to challenge
compulsory mowing ordinances.

BOOKS

In 2006 Ted Steinberg, an
environmental historian in Cleveland,
published American Green.

A number of newspapers
and magazines have done
stories on not mowing. Lew Regenstein
wrote an article for the Atlanta
Constitution, Richard Cohen for
the Washington Post, whlie
Organic Gardening published
a version of this post.

GROUPS

CALMM of Takoma Park Maryland
works to promote lawn alternatives.
Takoma Park is also a tree protecting
city.

The National Wildlife Federation
which promotes the killing of animals
by hunters nevertheless also
promotes wildlife habitat, with
special emphasis on making the back
yard wild.

The Fruitarian Network of Akron Ohio
works for all aspects of plant rights
and nonviolence.

Robert Frost, Robert Redford, Ted Steinberg & Others

Utah resident Robert Redford said Ohioans are really into lawnmowers. This
is still true of a majority of landowners,
but Ohioans have won federal and local court victories
against compulsory lawnmowing.

Alice Herrington, deceased president
of Friends of Animals: re her unmowed
acreage: 'the bunnies like it'.

Femka R: Our Serbian trees were
burned in bombing by the US regime.

Ted Steinberg, Cleveland environmental historian and author of American
Green: (re the American
obsession with a crewcut layer
of monotypic chipped blue grass)
Long Island or Lawn Guyland as it
is sometimes called.

(While scythes too can kill toads
and butterflies and sapling trees,
they don't kill as many as machine
harvesters)
The Scythe Book: Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains, With Hand Tools (Paperback)
by David Tresemer

Edward G Bulwer-Lytton:

"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."
* Stephen King in The Lawn Mower Man:

"The neighbor's dog chased the cat under the mower...
they cleaned off the blades. Harold decied to get rid of the mower."

.... "the mower spat out the mole..
in a series of entrails"

"The lawnmower was tearing through the unfortunate grass like an
avenging devil from hell."
* ------
Walt Whitman:
We are the journeywork of the stars, no less than the leaves of grass."

There does seem to be something in the human phsyche that loveth a mown expanse, though. Is it rooted in our evolution? A wide expanse of short grass would have been much safer and more predictable than some other habitat. What looks beautiful to us is probably a reflection of this kind of evolutionarily advantageous dynamic.

I gave up after the first couple of rabid sentences.

As for letting gardens run wild.. I have a hawthorn hedge, brambles for blackberries, and nettles in the borders. All under control, and until I find something better to fill the space, I'm enjoying the wild and woodlandy look. :)

Melanie

If one has a small lawn it can easily be handled with human-powered equipment, and if one has acres of lawn then it should be grazed, or at least cut for mulch or hay.

Perhaps that's why this is a separate Forum for the UK?

NEVER ever thought I'd feel this way, but BRING BACK SPIKE!!

I did read most of it but in bits and pieces over days, I need to get another book from the library!

You know, every time I post on this forum, sooner or later somebody mentions that only brits should be allowed to post here. And yet, often enough I have seen posters from the UK contributing to other GW forums and never once have I seen this sort of narrow-minded sentiment directed at them.

I also live on an island, but I try to remember that there is a larger world out there.

I can't speak for other people only my own experience but it may have a lot to do with the delivery of the original post. Preaching of any sort is something many in the UK find uncomfortable, had this been a straight forward, fairly short essay it would have probably been received differently.

I'm yet to see a post that out and out states only British should be allowed to post here, apart from the fact that the UK includes Northern Ireland as well, however the two posts I have seen mentions that this is the UK forum have been this one and another on which I received a personal and uncalled for remark by a US citizen.

Personally I don't care where any poster is from as long as we're not treated as another mission someone needs to minister to.

When I was in England in my real body, nobody suggested that I shouldn't be there, even by implication.

Anyway, regarding these kind of crusades or missions, like the non-mowing rant; they often have some valid or interesting philosophy behind them but of course they are couched so extremely that they turn most everyone off, british or otherwise.

Speaking of brits, do any of you like Gilbert White's writings?

Come to think of it there's a fair expanse of mown grass in that garden ;) I'd post a photo but I've never got the hang of that on these forums!

"The National Wildlife Federation
which promotes the killing of animals
by hunters nevertheless also
promotes wildlife habitat, with
special emphasis on making the back
yard wild."

then,

"The Fruitarian Network of Akron Ohio
works for all aspects of plant rights
and nonviolence."

This I find amazing (and totally contradictory). So it's quite OK to go round murdering wild animals, but it's cruel to cut grass to maintain a neat area in your own back garden!!! Or am I missing something?

There have been several posters here from other countries in Europe who can make positive contributions because they garden in fairly similar conditions.

I am afraid I do not warm towards people who make posts which do not relate to gardening in the UK (such as the spam which began this thread) from people who do not take the time or trouble to understand our gardening conditions or our more restrained and diffident way of expressing our views.

The original post is irrelevant to 99% of gardeners in the UK. Over here, a garden 100' x 100' is BIG, and most people live in towns, where it is illegal to keep animals.

I think the growing conditions in coastal new england must be fairly similar because most of our common weeds are imports from southern england. Also most of our garden crops, and we grow them at the same time of year. In some other parts of north america such is not the case. In northern scotland it probably isn't the case either, is it?

The town I live in was settled in the 1600's by people from Tisbury, england. My lawn is tiny, less than 100x100, and I am not allowed to keep a cow, nor goats, nor sheep. (strangely, we are allowed to have any number of large, troublesome dogs). Nevertheless, even small patches of grass do need to be cut at some point, or else they will become small patches of brush and brambles. So even there in irrelevant england you will be reaching for some sort of cutting implement, and I am guessing it will likely be powered by an engine of some sort?

A small, rarely-used poorly-maintained motor can do some champion polluting in a short time. I believe that is part of the point of that aggressive manifesto. As I said, the basic thrust of it is valid (and applicable everywhere). But of course, since it was posted by an american, and other americans have read it here on your UK forum, you mustn't concern yourself.

Good day.

Sorry it is so difficult for us to communicate. Is it a language thing? A patch of grass, were it 5'x5', still if not cut regularily will not remain a patch of grass for long, y'all will agree?

I'll keep mowing my lawns whenever they need it, weather permitting, as I don't want to be suurrounded by jungle conditions.

I'm still amazed that apparently "The National Wildlife Federation ... promotes the killing of animals
by hunters." Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me.

I suppose some people do have acres of grass to mow as lawn, but that isn't particularily common here, despite whatever stereotypes exist. Grasslands of that size are generally used for grazing or hay, sensibly enough. Some folks find themselves stuck with a bunch of fields but don't want to be bothered with animals and don't want tall grass for bug and critter reasons - but nobody in their right mind wants to do that much mowing, not even a suburbanite american. Those who do have lawns of such size to mow and maintain tend to be wealthy (I guess that goes without saying?), and so they can have somebody else mow it.

It's a safe bet they aren't going to be concerned with this non-mowing mission.

By the way, I actually do not usually cut my lawn with powered equipment. I have six guinea pigs and a rabbit in runs that are moved frequently; they keep the grass down and fertilize it at the same time. Obviously it's never a flat even lawn, but it is lush and green! Now and then, when we've had lots of rain, or are expecing 'company', we need to use the lawnmower for a proper trim.