Category Archives: Leaf Bowers
Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers
There are earlier posts of mine about gas-powered leaf blowers: read them here and here. Washington, D.C., recently enacted a ban on gas-powered leaf blowers, to take full effect by 2022. The journalist James Fallows and his wife Deb were among a small group of neighborhood activists who started working toward this in 2015. You can read here a short article by Fallows at The Atlantic with links to additional information.
“Well, it’s because we simply don’t deserve what Charleston has.”
Inman Park Loves and Hates Its Leaf Blowers!

Recently, Tree Watch sponsored a somewhat biased survey on leaf blower use in Inman Park.
Opinion was sharply divided. To say the least!