Sod creates a healthy environment. Turf-sod cleans the air and helps recharge our groundwater supplies. Turf-sod is one of nature’s finest and least expensive filters, and works to improve the overall air quality of the environment. Sod reduces heat, glare, and noise. On a hot summer day, a lawn will often times be 30 degrees cooler than asphalt and 15 degrees cooler than bare soil. The front lawns of just 8 homes has the cooling effect in hot weather of about 70 tons of air conditioning.