Let’s Crunch the Numbers: How Your Lawn Contributes to a Greener, Cooler, Healthier Earth

New Clean Air Calculator Lets You Measure the Positive Environmental Impact of Your Property

It’s easy to underestimate the power of a lush, green lawn—it’s a place of beauty, a boost to your home value, and a venue for play, socialization, and even rest. On top of all that, your yard is actually an environmental powerhouse!

Healthy green spaces, like residential lawns, provide essential ecosystem services, like producing oxygen and capturing carbon, majorly giving back to the environment in urban and suburban areas. Now, it’s easier than ever to measure the positive environmental impact of your property!

Our friends at Project Evergreen just launched the Clean Air Calculator! This new tool lets you see the environmental impact of your property, broken down by the numbers.

The Environmental Benefits of Lawns

The Clean Air Calculator measures four important environmental factors that are positively affected by the grass, trees, and shrubs on your property:

• Carbon Dioxide: Plants naturally sequester carbon from the air and store it in stems, roots and the soil. The Clean Air Calculator measures the reduction of CO2 levels in a given area per year.
• People Benefitted: This refers to the number of people who benefit from the oxygen plants release including your family and neighbors.
• Miles offset: Americans drive on average 12,000 miles per year leaving emissions in the areas that they travel. This calculation shows how many of those miles are offset by healthy plants.
• Your clean air score: Clean air is crucial for good health. The Clean Air Calculator estimates the amount of clean air plants produce in a given area per year.

Try the Clean Air Calculator

Don’t take our word for it. Give it a try yourself! Visit Project Evergreen’s Clean Air Calculator to calculate your impact.

1. Find your property on the map
2. Draw your greenspace! Outline areas of your property that include grass, trees, and shrubs.
3. Click submit to see your annual environmental impact!

Maintaining Your Healthy Green Space

A responsibly maintained residential lawn is a clean, green, carbon-sequestering machine! When we take care of our lawns and green spaces—by keeping up with mowing, watering, and professional services like fertilization, weed control, and aeration—our green spaces take care of us too!

Weed Man is here to be your teammate and partner throughout the lawn care season—but your lawn is the MVP. Find a Weed Man near you and get a free quote today!