REPORTS:
A Report to the California Legislature on the Potential Health and Environmental Impacts of Leaf Blowers
Submitted by the California Enviromental Protection Agency - Air Resources Board / February 2000 - This is a professional & technical report 79 pages long available here as a pdf download or go its web site for doc or pdf versions.
ARTICLES:
Cohasset, Massachusetts: Restrictions sought on leaf blowers
The Boston Globe - March 9, 2008 (read)
Leaf Blower Battles
San Barbara Independent - August 10, 2007 (read)
Greenburgh weighs new limits on leaf blowers
The Journal News - July 8, 2007 (read)
Remaining bills await action from Arizona Governor Napolitano air quality (and leaf blowers)
The Arizona Republic - July 1, 2007 (read)
Mamaroneck To Refocus on Leaf Blower Law - Town & Village of Larchmont Join Environmental Initiative
Larchmont Gazette, June 21, 2007 (read)
Cambridge, MA: Citizens Want Blowers Banished - Leaf-clearing power tools are ‘making others suffer,’ ban advocate tells council
Harvard Crimson - November 07, 2006 (read)
A remedy for the global blaring crisis
Union Tribune (San Diego) - August 29, 2006 (read)
Leaf Blowers' Noise Stirs Group To Seek Ban through Labor Day
Greenwich Citizen - June 6, 2006 (read)
Dangerous Noise Levels In Everyday Work
Channel 3000, Madison, WI - May 22, 2006 (read)
Proposed leaf blower ban sparks debate in Yonkers
Journal News-Weschester (NY), May 7, 2006 (read)
Interesting pro-con arguments
Leaf Blowers
Magic City Morning Star (Millinocket, ME) Apr 21, 2006 (read)
Silence of the Leaf Blowers, Wired, September 23, 2005 (read)
Ruling would further muzzle landscapers: Environmental Commission seeks year-round Sunday ban on blowers, Montclair Times (NJ), August 3, 2005 (read)
It's Time to Place a Ban on Intrusive Leaf Blowers, Los Gatos Weekly Times, June 2005 (read)
Leaf-blower ban blows both ways, The Chapel Hill News, October 9, 2004 (read)
The Sound and the Infuriated: Outdoor Noises Drive Some Neighbors Crazy, Washington Post, September 11, 2004 (read)
Campaign to Ban Leafblowers Gathers Momentum, Westside Today, July 4, 2004 (read)
What is the Most Annoying Noise, Atlantic Highlands Herald, November 13, 2003 (read)
The Sound and the Fury
MetroActive (Santa Cruz) - December 12, 1998 (read)
Actress Julie Newmar and Others
Struggle With Noisy Leaf Blowers
The Wall Street Journal - December 3, 1997 (read)
The Leaf Blower Battle
Hearnet (Palm Springs, California) - Date ? (read)
RANTS:
Leaf Blower = Brain Vacuum
by Virgil Rogers, St. Simons Island, Georgia (read)
Laguna Beach - Laguna North Neighborhood Association
P.O. Box 292
Laguna Beach, CA 92652
Email: jhegly@aol.com
Long Beach - Residents for Less Pollution
Los Altos - Blowers Annoy Neighbors (BAN)
Contact Myra Orta at meemaa@aol.com
Menlo Park - Citizens Against Leafblowers in Menlo (CALM)
Mountain View - Blowers Out Of Town (BOOT)
Palo Alto - Magic, P.O. Box 5894, Stanford, CA 94309, (650)323-7333
Email: magic@ecomagic.org
Piedmont - Peace In Our Town
Santa Barbara - Ban Leafblowers And Save our Town (BLAST)
P.O. Box 55, Santa Barbara, CA 93102,website: http://www.nonoise.org/resource/activist/blast/blast.htm
Walnut Creek - Walnut Creek Citizens Against Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
www.radiocamp.com/leaf/
Email: leaf@radiocamp.com
ZAP - Zero Air Pollution (Los Angeles Chapter)
P.O. Box 3441, Santa Monica, CA 90408, (310)364-3980
Email: zeroairpollution@aol.com
ZAP - Zero Air Pollution (Manhattan Beach Chapter)
www.nonoise.org/quietnet/zap/index.htm
INFO SOURCES NOISE:
Noise Free America: www.noisefree.org
Noise Pollution Clearinghouse: 888-200-8332; www.nonoise.org
Noise Center of the League for the Hard of Hearing: 888-664-7388; www.lhh.org/noise
Nolo Law For All: www.nolo.com; see section on neighbor law, then click "Noise FAQ"
Outdoor Power Equipment Institute: 703-549-7600; www.opei.org See Web site section called "Blower Log" for information about newer, quieter leaf blowers.
Right to Quiet Society: 604-222-0207; www.quiet.org
Rutgers Noise Technical Assistance Center: 732-932-8065; www.envsci.rutgers.edu/org/rntac
