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Inman Park, why are we still doing this?
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.
Jim vs. Jim
Hi, Jim. What’s shakin’? You got a minute?
Sure, Jim. What’s on your mind?
Time.
Time?
And space.
Time and space, huh?
Yep.
Tell me more, Einstein. Continue reading Jim vs. Jim
“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!
Education
Which of these is false?
- Lake Claire’s tree canopy is currently twice as dense as Inman Park’s, and taking into consideration how much of Inman Park is “non-vegetative land cover,” Tree Watch is limited to about half the total area of the neighborhood when it is looking for places to plant trees.
- A recent study in Portland found that a single shade tree increases a homeowner’s property value by an average $7,130, while street trees add $8,870, on average, to a house’s sale price.
- A two-stroke, gas-powered leaf blower releases into the air about 300 times the hydrocarbons of a heavy-duty pickup.
- In the front yard of a house on Elizabeth Street is a 70-foot tall, multi-trunk redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) — a Pacific coast redwood, that is, roughly 2,700 miles distant from the California forests where it has its true home, and which is said to be comprised of the suckers that sprouted from the stump of a tree planted by Joel Hurt himself!!!
- There is absolutely no connection between knowing more about the natural world and caring more about the natural world.
If you chose #5, congratulations!
Tree Watch needs your help in identifying topics, issues, speakers, experts, activities, venues, media outlets, and so forth, to educate Inman Park residents about the critically important work we must do to ensure that Atlanta remains a city with an environment that is supportive of human health and prosperity. Contact us!