CHANDLER, AZ — Over the past several months, Josh Farra, an employee at the Artificial Grass Superstore in Chandler, has noticed a trend in the phone calls he’s received from potential customers.

Let’s start with some common sense: Covering the Earth with plastic carpet is a terrible idea. And yet we continue to cover an ever-growing swath of our public and private open spaces with artificial ...

Disneyland has rolled out the green carpet with more artificial turf over the past few weeks and months as part of a drought-fighting water conservation effort that has largely gone unnoticed — and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As Colorado cities set stricter limits on the types and amounts of grass that homeowners can plant, especially on new or redeveloped properties, many ...

This story was produced in collaboration with CivicStory as part of the New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project. It was originally published in August 2023 and has been updated with additional ...