Do You Want Clean Air In California?
Chinzanso --- Landscaping Japanese Style Stanford --- 'Landscaping' American Style
You Can Have Clean Air You Will Get All The Filthy Air You Deserve
But You Must Choose Clean Air If You Do Not Choose Clean Air
. . . no person shall discharge from any source whatsoever such quantities of air contaminants or other material which cause injury, detriment, nuisance, or annoyance to any considerable number of persons or to the public, or which endanger the comfort, repose, health, or safety of any such persons or the public, or which cause, or have a natural tendency to cause, injury or damage to business or property . . .
 California State Health and Safety Code Section 41700

This web site aims for the complete elimination of leaf blowers from California, and Nation-wide if possible.

There are over three million leaf blowers in California. The majority are gasoline-powered leaf blowers. If growth trends continue, soon there will be over six million leaf blowers in California, at which time, air pollution, water pollution, blown dust, and noise, will be twice as bad as today.

Details (illustrated with trend charts and other data) of the daily dose of pollution and noise visited upon residents of California by over three million leaf blowers are published in a ninety-two-page (including contents and index) manifesto that can be downloaded from this web site.

Manifesto updated 2007 December 13.

The first recipient of this manifesto is Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is determined to enact sweeping legislation to reduce or eliminate emissions and pollution from California.

Download Manifesto
Download Manifesto

You can download this ninety-two-page manifesto with details of the daily bombardment of pollution and noise perpetrated by over three million leaf blowers. The manifesto is an Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) file. Use control-mouse or option-click (Macintosh) or right mouse (Windows) to download the PDF document to your file system instead of displaying the document in your web browser window.

Download Adobe Acrobat Reader
Get Adobe Acrobat Reader

If you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the downloaded PDF (Portable Document Format) file, you can obtain it from the Adobe web site.

Contact Office of the Governor
Contact the Office
of the Governor

You can help in this campaign:

  • Bookmark this page
  • Contact the Governor's Office to add your voice to support elimination of polluting noise bazookas.
  • Tell your friends and ask them to add their support

Visit the page linked via the button on the left to get in touch with the office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and voice your support for eliminating three million polluting noise bazookas from California.
Short Tour of Pollution and Noise

For a short tour of the main points of the manifesto, push the button to the left. In the meantime, here are “high-lights“ of the manifesto. Maybe “low-lights“ more appropriately describes the environmental destruction spewed into California cities and towns every day of the year by over three million noise bazookas).

Unburned Fuel Spew Numbers

Every day, those gasoline-powered leaf blowers spew over one-and-a-half million gallons of raw unburned two-stroke fuel into your California air at two hundred miles per hour, or over five-hundred-and-forty million gallons per year.

Cumulative Fuel Spew Numbers

Since the beginning of the gasoline-powered leaf blower and noise-making era in California, those gasoline-powered leaf blowers have spewed eight billion gallons of raw unburned fuel into your environment.

Carbon Dioxide Numbers

Every day, gasoline-powered leaf blowers spew over forty-eight thousand tons of Carbon Dioxide into California air at two hundred miles per hour, or over eighteen million tons per year, contributing to global warming.

Boosted Dust Numbers

Every dry day, leaf blowers boost over ninety thousand tons of dust into your California air at two hundred miles per hour, creating potential health hazards, for over eighteen million tons of dust per year.
That boosted dust potentially contributes to the huge increases in asthma, allergies, and respiratory ailments over the past thirty years.

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The Obvious Conclusion . . .

The clear answer to this out-of-control source of pollution and noise is to
exercise your choice and eliminate leaf blowers from California.

 

This Web Page Updated 2007 December 14