Green Corner: Don’t Blow It!

Whether you love them or hate them, there’s no debate that leaf blowers are extremely harmful to the environment and to humans’ hearing. In half an hour of use, traditional gas-powered blowers pollute as much as a Ford F-150 pickup driven 3,900 miles. Electric blowers are better, but they are only as green as their power source, and they still damage the insect/leaf ecosystem.

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