MooPig Tech Coroner :: "Good-bye to Gas-powered Lawn Mowers"

Lawn Mower | Lithium-Ion, Cordless, 56V | Egopowerplus.com | EGO: "The EGO POWER+ Mower is the most powerful rechargeable mower on the market today! Powered by the industry’s most powerful battery, the first ever 56-volt lithium-ion battery has 40% more power than the leading 40-volt battery. The EGO POWER+ Mower delivers the performance of gas without the noise, fuss and fumes."

'via Blog this'

CONCLUSION
It's in my CART.


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http://www.cnet.com/products/ego-power-plus-lawn-mower/
http://egopowerplus.com/products/mower

UPDATE!! More News from Michigan :: "Veggies are Shrubs, too!"

As Seen on FaceBook HERERetrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Bryan TX

 Photo Credit: Julie Bass

Michigan Woman Faces 93 Days in Jail for Planting a Vegetable Garden : TreeHugger

93 Days in Jail :: Veggie Tales
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  July 9, 2011  |  Bryan TX
This is a really great article about our lives in the neighborhoods. I have thought of planting veggies and herbs in my front yard because it is the only place we get sufficient sunshine year round. Why not?

EXCERPT  |  " ... This is not some gated community with HOA regulations. This is an ordinary, working class neighborhood in Oakland County, Michigan. Like nearly every other city in my home state right now, Oak Park is facing financial issues. Here at home, people are amazed that a cash-strapped city has the resources to investigate, charge, and prosecute a resident for something as innocuous as planting a vegetable garden. (Vanderlinden, Colleen. 7/08/2011. LINK) ..."

Oak Park, MI, city planner Kevin Rulkowski could only repeat what is common to front yards is acceptable. "... He said suitable means "common:" lawn, nice shrubs, and flowers. ..."

The city ordinance is not specific though, as to what plants are in those categories. Ninety-three days in jail, hearing on July 26th, creates a Go to Jail Card from the Monopoly Game, for planting the "wrong" plants.



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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/michigan_woman_faces_jail_planting_veggie_garden.php?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150253469533550_17522158_10150253773193550

How to Help

If you want to help support a gardener's right to grow food for her family (even if it is -- gasp -- in the front yard!) there are several things you can do:

1. Email or call officials for the city of Oak Park. Mrs. Bass has listed contact information for the mayor, city manager, and other city officials in the sidebar of her blog.
2. "Like" the Oak Park Hates Veggies Facebook Page.
3. Spread the word via Facebook and Twitter. By gaining attention to this particular issue, with this particular homeowner, the hope is that other cities will reconsider before they harass another homeowner for something like this.

What do you think? Should a front yard vegetable garden be a crime?

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Oak-Park-Hates-Veggies/184553881597878

Thursday Quiz :: Riding Lawn Mower OR Watermelon

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Watermelon

OR -- Riding Lawnmower

MooPig "I Don't Want to Skeer ya' Now..." Department:

Your Lawn-Care Big-Foot Print

Retrieved by Pat Darnell and the Sasquatch Family Hoard

Can we actually figure out how to transcend human destruction of Nature, and Nature's propensity to cleanse itself with extinction level events? In this era?

*[CLICK] MooPig Example: Texas = 42 mows per year\a quarter acre = 11000 Square feet +\- and 5 acres = 217,800 Sq ft
The Clean Air Lawn Care Web site even has a calculator to show how much you can reduce your carbon footprint by using this green service. ...Just select "lawn calculator" at the bottom left of the home page... [HERE]

Green Gardening: A new green choice for lawn lovers
By ANN LOVEJOY | SPECIAL TO THE P-I
It's a sunny Saturday morning. A soft spring breeze mingles birdsong with the roaring of mowers as millions of Americans prepare to attack their lawns.
[ ... ]
During the coming mowing season, about 800 million gallons of gas will burn to trim American lawns. According to EPA estimates, lawn equipment produces as much as 10 percent of all air pollution. That's a huge amount.
[ ... ]
In Washington and across the country, every major waterway is contaminated with almost two-dozen toxins, about half of which comes from lawn and garden products. Again, the lawn and garden contribution is enormous.
[ ... ]
Commercial services can use even deadlier toxins than those available at your local garden center.
[ ... ] Clean Air Lawn Care also buys certified renewable energy credits to offset the emissions of their trucks. The Clean Air Lawn Care Web site even has a calculator to show how much you can reduce your carbon footprint by using this green service. (Just select "lawn calculator" at the bottom left of the home page.)
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Ladd Smith, co-owner of In Harmony, said, [ ... ]"The Street of Dreams was a catalyst for change," he says. "We believe that educating the public and providing them with solutions is the way to get people to convert to a greener way of thinking."
[Ann Lovejoy is the author of many gardening books. She can be reached via mail at: 8959 Battlepoint Drive N.E., Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.]
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*MooPig Example Results: TX 42 mows, for gas powered lawn equipment... 1/4 acre at 11,000 Sq ft
Annual Pounds of Air Pollution = 301.70 pounds
Comparable Annual Vehicle Miles = 9240.0 miles

*Second Example Results: TX 42 mows, for gas powered.. 5 acres at 217,800 Sq ft
Annual lbs of air pollution = 5973.75 lbs
Comparable Annual Vehicle miles = 182,952.0 miles