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The factors that make a home is valuable are undergoing a fundamental transformation. One of the factors in transition is landscaping. | |||
Ornamental landscaping is OUT. It's becoming a sign of a wasteful person (the proverbial grasshopper) that's unprepared for what is coming. A sign of moral and intellectual weakness. | Ornamental landscaping is OUT. It's becoming a sign of a wasteful person (the proverbial grasshopper) that's unprepared for what is coming. A sign of moral and intellectual weakness. | ||
Productive landscaping is IN. Productive landscapes can be summed up as the ability of a home's land (and by extension, the land of the community it is a part of ) to produce valuable products and services efficiently. | Productive landscaping is IN. Productive landscapes can be summed up as the ability of a home's land (and by extension, the land of the community it is a part of ) to produce valuable products and services efficiently. | ||
Or, looked at another way, how good is your land at: | Or, looked at another way, how good is your land at: | ||
* capturing solar energy/nutrients/water (measured in volume), | |||
* transforming those inputs (the production system measured in the number of different processes at work and efficiency), and | |||
* producing beneficial products that sustain you or make you income ($$ or lifestyle equivalent)? | * transforming those inputs (the production system measured in the number of different processes at work and efficiency), and | ||
* producing beneficial products that sustain you or make you income ($$ or lifestyle equivalent)? | |||
Those homes (and communities) with highly productive landscapes (little labor, zero energy, little irrigation, few wastes, etc.) over as many yards/acres as possible are the homes to own. | Those homes (and communities) with highly productive landscapes (little labor, zero energy, little irrigation, few wastes, etc.) over as many yards/acres as possible are the homes to own. | ||
Latest revision as of 05:54, 20 November 2011
Description
John Robb:
"The factors that make a home is valuable are undergoing a fundamental transformation. One of the factors in transition is landscaping.
Ornamental landscaping is OUT. It's becoming a sign of a wasteful person (the proverbial grasshopper) that's unprepared for what is coming. A sign of moral and intellectual weakness.
Productive landscaping is IN. Productive landscapes can be summed up as the ability of a home's land (and by extension, the land of the community it is a part of ) to produce valuable products and services efficiently.
Or, looked at another way, how good is your land at:
- capturing solar energy/nutrients/water (measured in volume),
- transforming those inputs (the production system measured in the number of different processes at work and efficiency), and
- producing beneficial products that sustain you or make you income ($$ or lifestyle equivalent)?
Those homes (and communities) with highly productive landscapes (little labor, zero energy, little irrigation, few wastes, etc.) over as many yards/acres as possible are the homes to own.
In a sign of how unprepared we are: the US ornamental landscaping industry is composed of 90,000 companies that generate $50 billion a year in revenue." (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/11/journal-productive-landscaping.html) "