This link will take you to the Staff Report prepared by the City of Orinda, summarizing the presentation by Quiet Orinda, comments by the public, and closing remarks made by all five city...

Orinda's 2005 Noise Ordinance has not changed in the past seven years. The City posts it on its website, but it's not easy to read the full text of the ordinance.

The ordinance is buried in the Zoning section and is called "Noise Control"...

We prepared this 5 x 8" brochure as a handout for our Farmers' Market events, and other community outreach efforts. Feel free to use or modify it to suit your needs. Downloadable as a .pdf file, or as a Microsoft Publisher file.

Tad Friend's 2010 article about Quiet Orinda and the leaf blower blight reached an audience of over 4 million readers worldwide. The publicity "QO" received, and the attention paid to the pollution caused by debris blowers, has been...

Often cited by the industry as proof that a broom resuspends particulate matter as effectively as a blower (not true), this is nevertheless the only scientific study (before the Edmunds exhaust emissions study of 2011) that proves how settled...

This is the exhaustive study of the time and money savings from swicthing away from debris blowers.

Here's the link to the related study:

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This is Henry McGilton's landmark work on blower pollution, incorporating many illustrations, data, and explanations. A must-read for anyone interested in understanding the way blowers operate, pollute, and can be replaced.

This is the report we hand-delivered to the Orinda City Council members, on Tuesday evening, Oct. 5, 2010. It lays out the comprehensive case against neighborhood debris-blowing, including articles, an noise pollution footprint map, residents'...