Gimme Green.(Brief article)(Children's review)(Video recording review)

Gimme Green. DVD. 28 mix. Cinema Guild. 2008. ISBN 0-7815-1167-4. $89.95 (Rental $65).

Gr 6 Up--This documentary uncovers the costs of the American obsession with the suburban lawn. Filmed in the American southwest, where lawn maintenance is depleting an already scarce water supply, Gimme Green consists of interviews with a "Lawn of the Month" contest judge, a city code enforcer writing citations for unkempt lawns, a manager of a grass farm, an artificial tuff dealer, and others. The film argues that lawn maintenance uses many resources while providing few benefits, and that pesticides contaminate groundwater and contain known carcinogens. The picture and sound …