EASY BREEZY ECO-FRIENDLY ACTIONS IN THE GARDEN



EASY BREEZY ECO-FRIENDLY ACTIONS IN THE GARDEN 

v Improve the ecological health of all lakes and their watershed by saying no to chemical pesticide poisons and quick-release fertilizers. 

v  Provide food, shelter, and  protection for wildlife by planting native plant species in green spaces wherever possible!

v Do not use pesticide poisons on your lawn. They kill everything that flies, slithers, and crawls.

v Use organic lawn care! 
Since the advent of synthetic pesticide poisons in the 1940’s our air, water, food, blood, mother’s milk and adipose tissue contain significant residues of a variety of harmful pesticide poisons.

v Use organic products for all your landscape needs. After waging an ever increasing war on pests, using enough poisons to literally contaminate the entire world we have not managed to control or eliminate, even one pest species!
v Use free water for your garden by installing a rain barrel.

v Trees absorb a store of CO2 and filter out pollution. Help reduce greenhouse gases by planting as many native  trees as possible.

v Use free fertilizers by leaving grass clippings and a sprinkling of leaves on your lawn.  Compost all yard waste as  organic material  dumped into landfill sites creates methane gas which IS  30 -40 times more potent than CO2 in preventing the sun’s hear energy from escaping back into space. The more you compost the more you help to reduce global overheating!  

v When you water your lawn, electricity paid by tax payers, is used to pump water to your house. Save your own money and tax payers’ money by letting Mother Nature water your lawn.  Should we really be applying water that has been treated at great expense for drinking, on our lawns?

v Reduce the amount of nitrous oxide in the air we breathe by avoiding the of use chemical fertilizers.

v Stop 48 kilograms of green house gases from entering our atmosphere by replacing your air-polluting power mower!

v Do not wash your car in the driveway as all the pollutants and detergents on your driveway end up in our lakes  and cause great harm to the aquatic life in the lake.



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