1. When you replace your lawn equipment, purchase electric powered, battery operated equipment. It will reduce your greenhouse gas emissions as well as noise pollution.

2. You might prioritize replacing the equipment you use the most and/or the ones with two stroke engines since they’re the worst polluters. 

• Note: Does your equipment use the two stroke or the four stroke engine? If you mix the gas and oil before adding it to your machine, it’s a two stroke, and if you add the gas and oil separately to different tanks, it’s probably a four stroke engine, which is only somewhat less polluting. Two stroke engines, such as many leaf blowers, also tend to be louder and are major culprits of noise pollution.

3. If you hire a lawn care company, find one that uses electric powered equipment. 

4. Use hand powered tools when feasible -- for example, rake your leaves rather than blowing them. (Or leave some of them in place to add nutrients back into your lawn.)

Read an article in the Atlantic about how a writer and activist worked to get leaf blowers banned in Washington, DC.  

Check out a study from scientists in the Boston area estimating emissions from lawn and garden equipment.