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Lincoln Center's main plaza is now a verdant playground, with 14,000 square feet of a plush, synthetic lawn covering the Josie Robertson Plaza.
THE GREEN, an installation by designer Mimi Lien, opened on Monday and will be open through September 2021. The lawn—made from SYNlawn, a turf product with a "high soy content"—includes swooping sides (perfect for lounging), arches, an inverted arch, and built-in seating.
Basically, Lincoln Center is one huge advert for fake grass.
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SYNLawn® is green on top, in the middle and even underneath. Beyond the color, SYNLawn® goes a long way towards better environmental sustainability which makes it truly “green.” We take measurable steps in providing products that have an extended lifespan, reduce your carbon footprint, conserve water, and use renewable and recycled materials in manufacturing.
Engineered using the EnviroLoc™ backing system, these products replace up to 60 percent of the petroleum-based polymers with renewable soybeans to create superior strength, dimensional stability and healthy contribution to environmental sustainability. The primary backing helps extend the product life cycle by using 10% less material compared to traditional artificial grasses. Product lifespan is further extended on the face by incorporating nylon 6 in the fibers adding up to 50% longer life. Additionally, the secondary backing incorporates an environmentally-friendly polyurethane that replaces a large portion of the petroleum-based polymers with soybean oil, a renewable resource.
These products replace up to 60 percent of the petroleum-based polymers which means 40% are still made with fossil fuel. Never mind the energy used to manufacture this.
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As huge swathes of land are converted, habitats are lost and vital ecosystems destroyed, triggering wide-scale biodiversity loss. The Cerrado Basin, Brazil’s tropical savannah region, is a prime example of this. As the world’s most biodiverse savannah, the Cerrado is home to a menagerie of wildlife, sheltering some 5% of Earth’s living species.
Sadly, with a climate and terroir favourable for farming, limited conservation protection, as well as negligible penalties for clearing forestland, recent decades have seen nearly half of the Cerrado’s native vegetation lost to intensive agribusiness – of which soy forms a central portion.
Satellite imagery taken between 2006-17 revealed 170,000 hectares of Cerrado forest was cleared to grow soybeans. And, in large part, this is legal – in fact, under Brazil’s Forest Code, only 20% of privately owned Cerrado land (compared to 80% in Amazon rainforests) needs to be set aside for conservation – which means the remaining 80% can be legally deforested for soy farming Recent research projected that if agribusiness were to continue in the Cerrado at its current pace, by 2050 this extraordinary landscape, and the species within it, would have largely disappeared.
Real grass has life. It breathes in carbon dioxide from the air and produce the oxygen. There are insects breeding in it which feeds birds and wildlife.
Artificial grasses are "fake grasses." It should be illegal.
Lincoln Center's main plaza is now a verdant playground, with 14,000 square feet of a plush, synthetic lawn covering the Josie Robertson Plaza.
THE GREEN, an installation by designer Mimi Lien, opened on Monday and will be open through September 2021. The lawn—made from SYNlawn, a turf product with a "high soy content"—includes swooping sides (perfect for lounging), arches, an inverted arch, and built-in seating.
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