Take that lawn by the grass and grow something!
Sources: International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; U.S. Department of Agriculture; U.S. Census of Agriculture; U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service; Habitat Network; University of Florida; Texas Commission on Environmental Quality; The Land Institute; University of Minnesota Bee Lab; National Gardening Survey; Fleet Farming.
Jennifer Luxton and Erin Sagen created this comic for YES! Magazine. Jennifer is a journalist by training, graphic designer by profession, illustrator by passion, and amateur taxidermist by moonlight. She is the lead designer at YES! Follow her visual endeavors at www.jenniferluxton.com.
Erin is an associate editor at YES! Magazine. She lives in Seattle and writes about food, health, and suburban sustainability. Follow her on Twitter @erin_sagen.
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