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EPA GreenScaping Brochure
Our yards are our outdoor homes: fun, beautiful, great spaces for relaxing. By taking care of our lawns and gardens properly, we can save money, time and help the environment. GreenScaping encompasses a set of landscaping practices that can improve the health and appearance of your lawn and garden while protecting and preserving natural resources.
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EPA Protect the Environment
Tips for home safety, avoiding potential risks, and preventing pollution by recycling and conserving water and energy.
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EPA Beneficial Landscaping
Traditional landscaping and current landscape maintenance practices, while frequently meeting human needs and aesthetics, often have harmful impacts. The clearing of native woodlands and other natural habitats for urban/suburban growth and subsequent planting of grounds with vast lawns and manicured arrangements of exotic ornamental plants place a heavy toll on environmental and human health. This type of a landscape requires extensive use of mechanical equipment, unnecessary consumption of our limited natural resources (water and fossil fuels), frequent application of fertilizers and pesticides, and the generation of significant quantities of solid waste. As a result, our surface and ground waters are being polluted; destructive flooding is more commonplace; our neighborhood's tranquility and air quality are compromised by noisy, polluting landscape equipment; and our landfills are being consumed by yard waste. Furthermore, the biodiversity of our ecosystems is suffering from the introduction of invasive exotic landscape plants.
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USDA Eco-Friendly Landscaping
Looking for plants and practices that will help your landscape thrive? Find information about plants that have adapted naturally in your area and how to use them in the landscape to maintain and improve the environment.
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USDA Ecological Pest Management
Do you have a pest problem? Find information about the combination of complementary methods to control pests that minimize or eliminate the use of toxic pesticides.
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USDA Soil & Water Management
Manage natural resources wisely! Find information about methods to improve or protect your soil and use water with care on your land.
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