Why you should kill your lawn

May 21, 2026 · 21 min · YouTube

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0:00You're listening to Life Kid from NPR.
0:05Hey, it's Marielle.
0:07I grew up in a suburb of New York City, and our neighborhood was the definition of post-war development.
0:14Lots of houses in the same style, evenly spaced, with bright green, manicured lawns.
0:20And the lawns were good to us.
0:21My brother and I, we played barefoot in the sprinklers.
0:24We drove around in our little electric red Jeep.
0:27We tossed the ball to our dog, who was big and blonde and full of energy.
0:32What I'm saying is, grassy lawns, they have their appeal.
0:36But the reality is that we do, let's be honest, have a lot more lawn than we actually use.
0:43A lot of it is basically just kind of like for the look, right?
0:46It's kind of like aesthetic.
0:48This is Celia Yopis-Jepsen, a science reporter at Harvest Public Media and the host of their environmental podcast, Up From Dust.
0:56If you add up all this manicured grass turf that we've got in the U.S.
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