“”But I suppose this might require an alteration in the cultural stipulation that values very green yards?”
Not necessarily, but it isn’t easy to get there because the soils are so screwed up, particularly because of allelopathic hormones from non-native plants stressing the natives.
I had green grass until October with no water at all. There are many hundred degree days here over the summer and our soil is silty sand.”
Would you suppose that it is possible for every lawn in Califorina to be made cost effectively green to fit the cultural stereo type?
Or should Californians instead embrace their regions specific geographic conditions as “beutifull”. Ts it the 1950’s stile desire for uniformity destructive & non-cost effective?
Probably not, but then, "cost effective" presupposes an impressed valuation system that is subject to manipulation, as you suggested.
Or should Californians instead embrace their regions specific geographic conditions as “beutifull”. Ts it the 1950’s stile desire for uniformity destructive & non-cost effective?
I think our entire land use model is all screwed up, but you would need to read a great deal of what I've published and what I haven't yet published to get even an inkling of just HOW messed up it is. For example, some of the most effective vegetation and predation management processes are most efficiently executed by a nomadic culture. How would that fit in our latter day era?
It's doable, but it would take a rethinking of contract law, tort, and insurance regulation to make it pencil.
Seriously, take a serious look at the two book sites linked from my FR page. They will give you a few ideas of some of the possibilities.