Small Off-Road Engine Fact Sheet
Websites
American Green Zone Alliance (AGZA)
NY Department of Environmental Conservation
Sustainable yard practices
Leave Leaves Alone: The lowdown on mulching, composting, brush piles
Falls Church Forward website, Leave the Leaves
Xerces Society website, Leave the Leaves: Winter Habitat Protection
WY DAILY, More Virginians Leaving Leaves, Oct 13th, 2025
Homegrown National Park website: Leave the Leaves: Why Less Cleanup Means More Life
General articles and videos
Telecommuting: Big Demographic Trend in VA, Cooper Center, University of Va
Risks to Landscape Workers’ Health, Maryland Matters, April 2023
TV interview with Dr. Lucy Weinstein and Bonnie Sager, July 2017
All Electric Yard Care — Ditch the Gas, webinar, June 2021
The problem with gas-powered leaf blowers, Washington Post, 11/5/2023
Noise harms plants
Seagrass Posidonia is impaired by human-generated noise, Communicatons Biology, June 2021
Traffic noise induces oxidative stress and phytohormone imbalance in two urban plant species, Basic and Applied Ecology, May 2022
Audubon Magazine, “Why Cities are Taking Action to Limit Loud, Polluting Lawn Care”, Spring 2021
Atlantic video on leaf blower noise by writer James Fallows, 2019