Resources

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 [...]

Quiet Orinda Letter to City Council, Oct. 5, 2010This is the report we hand-delivered to the Orinda City Council members, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 5, 2010. Several QO members spoke [...]

We took the Haaga 670 commercial-strength sweeper to several downtown Orinda locations to clean up some debris and leaves. No noise, no fugitive dust emissions, no exhaust pollution, and all [...]

Stihl and Echo claim their latest backpack debris blowers are ever so much cleaner and quieter than… before. We tested a brand new Stihl BR-500 backpack debris blower. Stihl markets [...]

Quiet Orinda tested a consumer-grade WeedEater brand electric debris blower. Since electric models are often claimed to be much quieter than gas-powered blowers, we decided to find out for ourselves. [...]

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 [...]