We are on artificial turf, folks, pretending that what we are doing as a society is good and healthy and sustainable (or knowing that what we are doing is not, and either feeling powerless to […]
Tag: artificial turf
Plastic places
So I have discovered enough of a pattern happening to start a new photo essay. I call this one Plastic Places, and it features both private and public spaces covered with artificial turf. It joins […]
Build me up, buttercup, just to let me down
So I see this gorgeous field of buttercups (as I was Traveling at the Speed of Bike to see the last of the peach trees my 90-year-old friend planted five years ago, hanging heavy with […]
More fake
Oh, for goodness, sake — am I the only person who is concerned about the increasing amount of fake (and potentially toxic) turf being installed literally everywhere? Dog parks, ball fields, public open spaces (which […]
New attacks of artifice
I see new attacks of artifice almost every time I’m out Traveling at the Speed of Bike. Dog parks, ball fields, playgrounds, public greenspaces, everywhere. Suburban, urban, you name it — artificial turf is out of […]
Play here?
Dog parks. Playgrounds. Soccer fields at transit stations. Baseball fields at schools. “Greenspaces” at the center of “Live! Work! Play!” developments masquerading as town squares. Artificial turf is seemingly everywhere, and I seem to be […]
Real talk about artificial turf
My suburb-city recently cut down 300 trees to install two artificial turf playing fields at a public middle school (see Stumped). These are being used for sports leagues at night and on weekends, and for […]
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