Green Spaces Facts

From cleaner air and cooler temperatures to enhanced social connections and improved mental health, healthy green spaces deliver a wealth of benefits to individuals and communities. Read on to discover just a few of these vital advantages.

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Green Space Benefits

Green Spaces: More Than Just a Pretty Place

“I just spent $15,000 on my new landscape to save $40 a month on my water bill!” Seem efficient to you? It’s a question worth asking, especially as more communities across the country are encouraged to change their landscapes in pursuit…

Water Management

Sponge Cities: Designing for Drought, Flood, and Fire in a Changing Climate

As climate extremes become the new “normal”, cities must do more than just make space for people—they need to absorb water, heat, and unexpected environmental conditions. With worsening floods, longer droughts, and wildfires creeping into…

Turfgrass

How to Maintain Sustainable Turfgrass

Turfgrass is often criticized in water conservation conversations. I’ve seen it everywhere from media headlines to municipal rebate programs and the message is clear. If you want to save water, rip out your lawn. But is grass really the villain…

Green Space Benefits

Nature is Our Neighbor

Parks, green spaces, and urban landscapes are not just pretty or pleasing to the eye, they are vital to health and community well-being. We know, for example, that people living near green spaces have a 55% lower risk of developing psychiatric…

Water Management

Every Drop Counts

Every Drop Counts in Healthy Green Spaces Healthy green landscapes—parks, sports fields, home lawns, gardens, and urban forests—perform essential environmental functions like mitigating urban heat, slowing stormwater, sequestering carbon,…