You’ve seen the Solar Sheep, now meet Google’s Grazing Goats!

From the googleblog:

Last year, in our quest to minimize our carbon footprint (and keep people on their toes), we turned to an unlikely solution for mowing an overgrown field: goats. More than 200 goats from California Grazing have once again arrived at our Mountain View headquarters where they’ll stay for over a week chomping away on grassy goodness. The cost of bringing in the goats is comparable to hiring lawn mowers for the same job and the green benefits are clear: the goats eliminate mower emissions, reduce noise pollution, restore plant species and fertilize while grazing.

If you’ve got to have a lawn, why not complete the ecosystem with a grazing animal?  It seemed to work well on the western plains for a few hundred millennia, and all without herbicides, fertilizers, or gasoline!

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