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CURB APPEAL
Why a green driveway
is environmentally sexy.
BY JANE SORENSENW
ho knew that climate
change, biodiversity
and curb appeal are
synonymous?
I grew up on a farm with a
big circular driveway. The farm
yard, where everyone parked,
was a lot of gravel for my tender
feet to navigate, but in front of
the house, two tall rows of cedars
arched over two wheel paths,
with a grassy, mossy strip
down the middle. It was there I
would play.
Another family we knew took
Dallas as the model of country
prosperity. When they paved
their long farm driveway with a
few inches of blacktop, I asked
Dad to do the same. “Why would
we want that?” he asked. It
wouldn’t get muddy in the spring,
I’d never throw a stone with the
lawnmower, and it’d be great for
playing basketball.
He laughed. “How often do you
throw a stone anyway? You know
not to mow on the driveway,
except when you’re taking
shortcuts,” he said. We already
had a basketball hoop in the
south port of the barn. I realized