This stream of my work has focused on examining environmental practices at the household and neighborhood levels (non-point source pollution) with a range of colleagues on NSF grants. In particular, my projects which have included Michael Vandenburgh at Vanderbilt (former Chief of Staff of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Clinton) on non-point source pollution examining yard care practices and the use of nitrogen and pesticides to produce aesthetic lawns that conform to different standards finds that neighborhood-level governance institutions, particularly homeowner’s associations which constitute about 80% of new development in the United States, play a pivotal role in developing and enforcing lawn norms which translates into a range of power dynamics both within neighborhood and outwardly connecting these to the political-economic ambitions (as well as cultural) of cities who want to shift government to governance (state-civil society relations). From our study, we have published work looking at linkages between housing market stability and environmental management and household practices and model how homeowner associations mediate these in both positive and punitive manners. I believe that one area of importance for continued human-environment interaction research in this area (and it could broaden beyond lawns and yards) is to provide research for organizations like agricultural extension agencies to play a more significant role in working with neighborhoods to produce desired landscape aesthetics in a manner where the nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching (depending on many factors but land use legacy, soil composition, and alternative ornamental designs) could be addressed not only through policy but through initiatives that show benefits to stakeholders that want to maintain a certain ‘yard-scape’ aesthetic.