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WHY GREEN MATTERS
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Environmental Benefits
Green spaces are a great benefit to our environment. They filter pollutants and dust from the air, they provide shade and lower temperatures in urban areas, and they even reduce erosion of soil into our waterways. These are just a few of the environmental benefits that green spaces provide.
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Lifestyle Benefits
Imagine your local park completely devoid of green. It’s not a pretty picture. It’s easy to take for granted the importance of green spaces in our lives. Project EverGreen has compiled some interesting research that shows the lifestyle benefits of green spaces.<<read more>>

Economic Benefits
Green spaces benefit the economy in many ways. Studies have found that employees are more productive when working around interior plants, and that hospital patients recover faster when they have a view of green space.<<read more>>

This resource for North Carolina's gardening community is sponsored by . . .
The North Carolina Nursery & Landscape Association and
The North Carolina Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.