The movement to reduce lawn and stop the resource-wasting, polluting conventional care of them has been with us for nearly 20 years now but is really building steam in the 2000s. Here are writings on the subject, with the newest listed first in each category, as of the launch of this website in September of '09. To find newer publications, visit our New and Coalition Update page. 
Lawn Reform in Books
The American Meadow Garden: Creating a Natural Alternative to the Traditional Lawn by John Greenlee, with photography by Saxon Holt.
Edible Estates: Attacks on the Front Lawn by Fritz Haeg, Diana Balmori, Rosalind Creasy, Michael Pollan, Lesley Stern, Michelle Christmas, Stan Cox and Michael
The Organic Lawn Care Manual by Paul Tukey, founder of SafeLawns.org and member, Lawn Reform Coalition.
American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn by Ted Steinberg, Case Western Reserve Professor of History and Law. And here's the review in the New York Times.
Shrink Your Lawn: Design Ideas for Any Landscape by Evelyn Hadden.
Food Not Lawns by Heather Coburn Flores.
Lawn Care Without Pesticides by Cornell's Frank Rossi is free, in pdf.
Requiem for a Lawnmower by Sally Wasowski and Andy Wasowski (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2004).
Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony, by F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori, and Gordon T. Geballe, (Yale University Press, 1993).
The Wild Lawn Handbook: Alternatives to the Traditional Front Lawn by Stevie Daniels. Manual of turf alternatives - moss, grass and wildflower mixes, and shade- and sun-loving groundcovers - with input from "pioneers" in natural landscapes.
Water-Wise Gardening: America's Backyard Revolution by Tom Christopher
How to Get Your Lawn Off Grass: A North American Guide to Turning off the Tap Water and Going Native by Carole Rubin.
The Lawn: History of an American Obsession, by Virginia Scott Jenkins (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994).
Michael Pollan chapter about lawns in Second Nature back in 1991 raised the radical question of whether one must have a lawn in America.
Lawn Reform in Newspapers and Magazines
Wall Street Journal on how water shortages are changing the amnounts and types of lawns in new developments: "Turf Battle Heats up over Limits on Water-Guzzling Landscapes".
Philadelphia Inquirer on the difficulties in ridding your lawn of toxic risks. It ain't easy going green.
In the San Francisco Chronicle: Ditching Your Lawn? Plan the Replacement Carefully.
For San Antonio Express News, Artificial Grass has Grown a lot since the '60s.
Lawnlets: Less is More in Carolina Gardener Magazine.
The American Lawn, Unplugged by Frank Hyman for the Durham Independent.
Turf Wars: The Battle over the American Lawn"[pdf] by Evan Ratliff, in Ready Made Magazine.
Michael Pollan's 1991 article in the New York Times called for the White House to rip up its lawn.
Lawn Reform Online
Ontario's Royal Botanic Gardens is on message with its "No Mow, No Blow, No H2O" campaign.
"Coming Soon: The Death of the Great American Lawn" by Susan Harris on WowOwow.com
In Golf Digest, Chemical-Free Golf Courses are Few and Far Between and How Green is Golf?
The Grass Roots Program offers practical information about the best-rated, sustainable turf and lawn watering systems for the West. To make these choices most affordable, the program currently provide incentives and identifies other available rebates to streamline the savings process.
In "Bring on the front-yard farmers," we learn that Fritz Haeg is looking for examples of "full frontal gardening" - of vegetables inyour front yard, on The Green Fork.
Six Pieces of Evidence that Clover is not a Weed by Paul Tukey for the Daily Green.
The Perfect Lawn Doesn't Require a Gas-Powered Mower by Paul Tukey for Grist.
Lawn alternatives from across the country are compiled on Sustainable-Gardening.com.
The American Lawn: An Unrequited Love by Martin Quigley for Ohio State.
"Why lawns are not sustainable in conservation landscaping" on Conservation Landscaping.
"The Lawn Less Mowed" podcast by Ginny Stibolt in Florida explains how to reduce lawn and why it's a good idea.
Old joke about what God thinks about lawns. Remember this one?
Lawn Alternatives in USA Weekend by Fran Sorin.
LessLawn.com, launched in 2001, is written and edited by lawn reform advocate and Coalition member Evelyn J. Hadden.
Kathy Green, the Gardening for Nature writer in Colorado's Front Range, promotes diversified gardens, not lawns.
