Sustainable Gardening 101
By Jan Scow
The concept of sustainability has been brandished about in recent years as the mantra of a broad new collation of activists and citizens pushing to get traction on global environmental problems. Sustainable is the new buzzword for a public awakened to the pressing concerns of global warming and its attendant impacts on the environment. We've been convinced: global warming is real and we're eager to do something to help. We're ready to be sustainable.
But what does the term sustainable garden imply?