Get rid of your lawn

The City of Winnipeg is offering a workshop by a Living Prairie Museum expert on putting native plants in your yard. I took that as my inspiration to finally write to Great West Life (now Canada Life Co) about all the grass on their property. 

It’s only a Facebook comment, so it likely won’t go anywhere, but a letter or email would be totally ignored, whereas this comment is available to the whole wide world and might just inspire a few random “likes” to show I’m not the only human who thinks this. 

We all have a responsibility to do what we can  to mitigate the coming climate change crisis. 

As an insurance company, Canada Life Co., you are aware of how this will affect your bottom line as people suffer more ailments due to heat waves and polluted air due to increased forest fires. 

The vast swaths of grass around your buildings in Winnipeg, particularly the north lawn along Broadway which no one ever walks on, offer Canada Life Co the opportunity to be a responsible citizen and a climate leader by replacing all that biodiversity squelching monoculture with native grasses and flowers. These will require much less water (or none at all), will contribute to the flourishing of much needed pollinators and will even fix carbon in the soil. 

Spring planting season nears; there is no time to lose to consult with native plant experts to redesign and replant your lawns.