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The “CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood” show’s segment about Quiet Orinda, its founders, and the broader debris blower debate should air Sunday morning, November 6 on your local CBS [...]

This week’s broadcast of nationally-syndicated Sea Change Radio, hosted by Alex Wise, is dedicated to examining debris blower pollution. Alex interviews Gretchen Biggs, founder of GreenwichCALM from Greenwich, CT, [...]

Tad Friend’s humorous and insighful article about Quiet Orinda created massive publicity for us and for our city. This is a pdf file, scanned at high resolution:
The New Yorker Magazine [...]

Wendy Morton’s poem about Quiet Orinda and our debris blower pollution blight, called “Anger”, is published on our Resources page and on the QO Forum. Here is her biography, from [...]

Famous Canadian Poet Wendy Morton read about Quiet Orinda’s campaign to restrict the use of debris blowers. Moved by her own experiences with blower pollution, and by her empathy for [...]

Orinda Council Member Sue Severson recommends Triple Pane Windows Here’s an audio clip from the Nov. 16, 2010, wherein Council member Sue Severson, after hearing pro- and anti-ban arguments, offers [...]

A new online petition has been set up, and is currently online for signing.
Follow this link to sign the petition.
You will be required to connect through a social service to [...]

As you know, our online petition is up and running. However, many folks don’t have access to the internet, so we created a Quiet Orinda petition that you can print [...]

The Quiet Orinda Video is Now Online!
Now that our much-anticipated Quiet Orinda video made its April, 2010 debut at the California Independent Film Festival in Orinda, it’s time to make [...]

The professionally-produced short documentary called “Quiet Orinda” will debut at the California Independent Film Festival, on Sat., April 24, 2010 at 7:15 p.m. at the Orinda Theater. We submitted our [...]