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November 9, 2022 / Last updated : March 10, 2023 Chris website

Nuevos fondos disponibles para ayudar a los profesionales de jardinería a comprar equipos a batería

Como escribimos en octubre, California dejará de vender equipos de jardinería a gasolina (y algunos otros “pequeños motores todoterreno”) en el estado a partir de 2024. Es un paso importante, aunque no pone fin a su uso. (Las ciudades y condados pueden regular sus uso). Y ayer, lanzó un programa de incentivos para ayudar a […]

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November 8, 2022 / Last updated : March 10, 2023 Chris Uncategorized

New Funds Available to Help Landscapers Buy Battery Equipment

Yesterday, California kicked off an incentive program to help commercial landscapers purchase new zero-emission leaf blowers, lawn mowers, hedgers, and other ZE landscape tools and batteries.

leaf blower burning money
August 6, 2022 / Last updated : January 14, 2023 Chris Uncategorized

Gas vs. Battery Power–Which is More Expensive?

But we couldn’t find any comprehensive studies that compared the cost of buying and operating new battery-powered leaf blowers with the cost of running gas-powered ones. So we rolled up our sleeves and ran the numbers ourselves.

zero-e expo
March 25, 2022 / Last updated : March 25, 2022 Chris website

Upcoming Battery-Power Demo Event

A big expo and demonstration day is coming up on April 19th where pro landscapers, city parks departments, and others will be able to check out the latest equipment from numerous manufacturers.

capitol building
October 18, 2021 / Last updated : October 18, 2021 Chris Uncategorized

Did California Just Ban Gas-Powered Tools? (No)

…The law will only affect the future sale of new gas-powered tools. It’s still up to cities and towns to pass their own local ordinances to restrict the use of them while we still live and breathe.

May 3, 2021 / Last updated : May 3, 2021 Chris Uncategorized

New Bill Could Bring Cleaner Air to CA by 2024

AB-1346 would require all new ones to be zero-emission (e.g. battery/electric) by 2024

January 4, 2021 / Last updated : January 4, 2021 Chris Uncategorized

News and Updates for a New Year

Happy new year from C.H.A.S.E.! As of January 1st, residents of Monterey began enjoying somewhat cleaner air and less noise, but the new ordinance is full of holes—the gas leaf blower ban excludes commercial and industrial zones, parks, schools, and more, where plenty of people work, study, and exercise. And last we checked, noise and […]

yardsign
October 12, 2020 / Last updated : October 12, 2020 Chris Uncategorized

Expanding Outreach & Growing Support

Even as many of us at C.H.A.S.E. are following and engaging with national issues and politics, we haven’t neglected the local. It’s where we live and breathe. Lately we’ve been accelerating education and outreach to help reveal the costs of gas-powered leaf blowers and the benefits of kicking them. For instance, some people think gas-powered […]

CHASE yard sign
September 10, 2020 / Last updated : August 25, 2022 Chris Uncategorized

Yard Signs on the Way, Help Get the Word Out!

A big welcome to all the new residents who have signed up to support this cause. We know the proportion of people who want action on this is overwhelming, but it’s only when people step forward and demand change that we will see that change, and bring peace and cleaner air to Santa Cruz. So […]

smoke and haze
August 27, 2020 / Last updated : August 28, 2020 Chris Uncategorized

Amid Smoke and Ashes, Residents Demand Relief

The wildfires bathed Santa Cruz in ashes. Now leaf blowers are blowing dangerous ash back and forth around the neighborhood. When will City Council say, Enough?

3 leaf blowers
August 6, 2020 / Last updated : August 6, 2020 Chris Uncategorized

Sheltered in Place, Surrounded by Leaf Blowers

But now that the pandemic has forced so many people to work from home (or worse, put them out of work), many more people are stuck at home during the week. They, too, are forced to live among the leaf blowers. They’re realizing that the whining, revving, obnoxious cacophony isn’t something that comes and goes in 15 minutes—it rises up here, and there, and everywhere, invading our houses and our heads over and over, near every day, as one crew after another fires up another blower to do war on … leaves.

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July 12, 2020 / Last updated : December 1, 2020 Chris Featured

It’s Time to Ban Leaf Blowers in Santa Cruz

“Why did we wait so long to do something as simple as protecting the health of our families and our community?” This is what people have wondered in cities across the country that decided to ban the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in their neighborhoods. No doubt you’ve been talking on the phone, working, or […]

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Nuevos fondos disponibles para ayudar a los profesionales de jardinería a comprar equipos a batería

November 9, 2022
battery mower santa cruz

New Funds Available to Help Landscapers Buy Battery Equipment

November 8, 2022
leaf blower burning money

Gas vs. Battery Power–Which is More Expensive?

August 6, 2022
zero-e expo

Upcoming Battery-Power Demo Event

March 25, 2022
capitol building

Did California Just Ban Gas-Powered Tools? (No)

October 18, 2021

New Bill Could Bring Cleaner Air to CA by 2024

May 3, 2021

News and Updates for a New Year

January 4, 2021
yardsign

Expanding Outreach & Growing Support

October 12, 2020
CHASE yard sign

Yard Signs on the Way, Help Get the Word Out!

September 10, 2020
smoke and haze

Amid Smoke and Ashes, Residents Demand Relief

August 27, 2020

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