{"id":125661,"date":"2022-09-16T18:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/despite-angry-notes-from-neighbors-people-are-ditching-grass-lawns-for-sustainable-substitutes-and-it-s-the-absolute-best"},"modified":"2022-09-16T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:16:02","slug":"despite-angry-notes-from-neighbors-people-are-ditching-grass-lawns-for-sustainable-substitutes-and-it-s-the-absolute-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/despite-angry-notes-from-neighbors-people-are-ditching-grass-lawns-for-sustainable-substitutes-and-it-s-the-absolute-best","title":{"rendered":"Despite Angry Notes From Neighbors, People Are Ditching Grass Lawns For Sustainable Substitutes, And It&#8217;s The Absolute Best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, our planet is not okay. Global warming is only getting worse , and 36.96% of the United States is currently in a drought , with 241.2 million acres of crops affected. ^^^Look at these sad, dried out almond trees!!! Bloomberg Creative \/ Getty Images\/Bloomberg Creative Photos Thankfully, there are a lot of magnificent people out there who have come up with sustainable alternatives to grass lawns. These include &#8212; but are not limited to &#8212; wildflower yards, bee sanctuaries, clover fields, succulents, vegetable gardens, wood chips, and pathways. With some of these lawn substitutes, you&#8217;re not only saving water; you&#8217;re also promoting biodiversity (aka the variety of different lifeforms in our ecosystems). TED A subreddit called r\/NoLawns is my favorite place to peruse how people have transformed their boring (gr)ass lawns into beautiful, biodiverse sanctuaries. Here are 16 examples I was wowed by: 1. This person turned their front lawn into a vegetable garden: reddit.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, 36.96% of the United States is currently in a drought. Giving up our grass lawns is a great thing we can do to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,1],"tags":[80,215,317,6,55],"class_list":["post-125661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-news","tag-advocacy","tag-environment","tag-home-garden","tag-lifestyle","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}