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Green Roofs for Healthy Cities

Roofscapes

Life on a Large Lot: Acres of Turf, Days of Din. In a Washington Post article on an American obsession, the author asks a simple question: “How did we ever wind up as lawn lackeys anyway?”  As an alternative, consider transforming your backyard into a certified backyard habitat providing food, water and cover for insect-eating birds and bats, beautiful butterflies, and honeybees and other pollinators.

Noise Pollution Clearinghouse

Lower Merion Conservancy

Testimony given before the House Committee on Agriculture.

Congressional Research Service Report.

End of the Wild, Stephen Meyer

National Wildlife Federation

In a letter to the Township Commissions dated 7 May 2007, Bradford Whitman describes the goals of the Lower Merion Citizens for Action Against Leafblowers and outlines a proposed ordinance for the regulation of leafblowers.

Do You Want Clean Air in California? including a  Manifesto against leaf blowers.