🍃Ending the harmful use of gas leaf blowers! 🍃

Gas leaf blowers emit massive amounts of carbon pollution!

In 2020, fossil fuel-powered lawn equipment emitted more than 30 million tons of carbon dioxide, the leading driver of climate change. To put that in context, that’s as much carbon pollution as comes out of the tailpipes of 6.6 million cars over the course of a year. And that’s more carbon pollution emitted by gas-powered lawn equipment in one year than was emitted by the entire city of Los Angeles in 2021. A 2011 study by Edmunds found that a two-stroke gasoline-powered leaf blower spewed out more pollution than a 6,200-pound Ford F-150 SVT Raptor pickup truck.

“Hydrocarbon emissions from a half-hour of yard work with the two-stroke leaf blower are about the same as a 3,900-mile drive from Texas to Alaska in a Raptor.”

Pollinators need leaves!

Let’s protect pollinators who are working hard protecting us all! The trouble with leaf blowers isn’t only their pollution-spewing health consequences. It’s also the damage they do to biodiversity. One of the most valuable things you can do to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, that’s pretty easy; all you need to do is do less yard work.

Protect humans who use gas leaf blowers

The people hired to use these machines are working class people, often people of color, who are most impacted by environmental racism and classism. Let’s protect all humans!

With gratitude for these resources & organizations:
https://environmentamerica.org/center/articles/leaf-blowers-arent-just-noisy-theyre-also-huge-climate-polluters/
https://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/story/60841/how-fall-yard-maintenance-can-help-protect-pollinators/
https://xerces.org/blog/leave-the-leaves
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2015/OctNov/Gardening/Leave-the-Leaves