Climate Change
Replacing Grass Can Help Save Water, but Just How Much?
Advocates say replacing “nonfuctional turf” with hardscaping or even artificial grass can have trickle down benefits beyond the actual gallons conserved.
Way before spring, when the trees are leafless skeletons and the grass is dry and beige, the people in charge of helping plants blossom at the University of Northern Colorado were hard at work. Chris Bowers, the school’s energy and sustainability manager walked through the churned-up dirt of a construction site near the campus commons building. Sparse and brown on a chilly January day, he laid out a vision for the space’s future in warmer months.