Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Roundup use in common areas (Joan Huntley)

[Melanie G (gomelaniego]

I applaud the community for wishing to get rid of the grass.  It is nearly
100% certain that people who live near golf courses for example, are more
likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson's.

As someone who has been diagnosed with Parkinsons 4 years ago, I implore
you to consider cardboard, or some other covering to suffocate, and switch
out the grass.  It is becoming well known that such toxins likely lead to
neurological (and other) diseases.  Please consider the possibility that
this could cause great harm to your community members years and even
decades from now.  Not to mention all the living community such as dogs,
cats, birds, squirrels, insects and trees.

There are surely landscape designers who would be willing to use an
alternative method.  Roundup harms, everyone, in many more ways than just
not having access to your lawns.  If I lived in your community and this was
the plan, I would absolutely begin my moving process.  I hope you and
anyone else reading this is willing to heed my warning.  Then at the very
least, I will have served as your canary in the proverbial coalmine.