Fun or conformity - lawnmowing
from Up This Way
At some point this summer many of us, who are lucky enough to back yards, have probably taken out the lawn mower and spent a sweltering afternoon cutting the grass. But have you ever thought about what that simple act tells us about our relationship to nature? In a time of eco-consciousness and climate change concerns, our environmental battles are often not the big corporate deforestations but rather the small things we do on our properties. Nick Holm is a Cultural Studies expert at Massey University who has been researching these connections.
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