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"Ten years ago, when Michael Hall retired as dean of students at the Pacific
Northwest College of Art and began to spend more time at home, he noticed an
ear-splitting noise — something he’d never been around during the day to hear.
“The neighbor’s contractor was rattling my windows and assaulting my ears!” he
says. One day, he went out and met the contractor at the curb and said, “Can
you dial back on the leaf blower? There’s only 10 feet between our houses and
it’s really a nuisance.” The contractor responded, “If you kept better care of
that side of your house, I wouldn’t have to do that.”
That launched Hall on a mission that he’s still leading to this day. “At first
I started out as Don Quixote out there, tilting at windmills,” says Hall, who
describes himself as an old Berkeley hippie. Today he’s not only a co-chair of
Quiet Clean PDX, a grassroots organization that’s pushing to ban the use of
gas-powered leaf blowers city-wide, but part of a growing national movement.
More than 100 US cities have banned gas-powered leaf blowers and over 45
different organizations across the country are part of the Quiet Clean
Alliance, from Quiet Clean Philly to Quiet Clean Seattle."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
