{"id":234457,"date":"2023-09-29T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T17:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/swedish-island-of-gotland-holds-second-annual-ugliest-lawn-contest-seeks-entries-for-new-global-contest\/"},"modified":"2023-09-29T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:06:23","slug":"swedish-island-of-gotland-holds-second-annual-ugliest-lawn-contest-seeks-entries-for-new-global-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/swedish-island-of-gotland-holds-second-annual-ugliest-lawn-contest-seeks-entries-for-new-global-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Island of Gotland Holds Second Annual Ugliest Lawn Contest, Seeks Entries for New Global Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMarcus Norstr\u00f6m, winner of Gotland\u2019s Ugliest Lawn 2022 competition. Region Gotland, Sweden                <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__trust \">\n                    <noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ecowatch\/assets\/img\/dist\/who-we-are-wrapper-6.webp\" class=\"article__trust-img\" alt=\"\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tWhy you can trust us                    <\/p>\n<div class=\"article__trust-tooltip\">\n<p>Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On the Swedish island of Gotland, neighbors aren\u2019t bothered by whose grass is greener. Instead, locals are competing for the second year in a row for the \u201cugliest\u201d lawn, a competition that began in 2022 amid a ban that prevented irrigation for grassy yards.<\/p>\n<p>Irrigations bans were first put in place in 2017 in Gotland to conserve water during the summer, as an influx of tourists in recent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/ugly-lawn-contest-sweden-gotland.html\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at www.ecowatch.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Norstr\u00f6m, winner of Gotland\u2019s Ugliest Lawn 2022 competition. Region Gotland, Sweden Why you can trust us Founded in 2005 as an Ohio-based environmental newspaper, EcoWatch is a digital platform dedicated to publishing quality, science-based content on environmental issues, causes, and solutions. On the Swedish island of Gotland, neighbors aren\u2019t bothered by whose grass is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":234458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Swedish Island of Gotland Holds Second Annual Ugliest Lawn Contest, Seeks Entries for New Global Contest - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/ugly-lawn-contest-sweden-gotland.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swedish Island of Gotland Holds Second Annual Ugliest Lawn Contest, Seeks Entries for New Global Contest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marcus Norstr\u00f6m, winner of Gotland\u2019s Ugliest Lawn 2022 competition. 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