Most people find gas-powered leaf blowers annoying but are surprised to hear the harms they also cause to our communities. Using clean alternatives such as battery blowers and rakes makes neighborhoods not only quieter but safer and healthier.
Action Alert! Help Get the Word Out!
While the City has committed to phasing out gas leaf blowers citywide starting in January 2026, we need your assistance in notifying property owners and contractors in Portland about the new policy, so everyone has time to transition to safer tools.
Please help this effort by distributing the notifications below to friends, neighbors, and social circles. Feel free to print and disseminate any of the following (your choice), or ask us for copies at info@quietcleanpdx.org. Thank you!
- Take Charge! – flyer in English & Spanish
- Time to Switch – flyer in English & Spanish
- Notice from City – postcard in English & Spanish
Other Actions You Can Take to Help the Cause:
- Sign up for our newsletter for the latest information and resources.
- Join our Facebook group to stay current and support the effort.
- Share your thoughts and ideas on Nextdoor.com – people care about what their neighbors say. Let them know about Quiet Clean PDX.
- Help us distribute postcards about the harms of gas leaf blowers. Contact Albert to get cards to distribute or mail to your neighbors & friends, or download these image files and share on social media.
- Share our QCPDX leaf blower presentation and gas leaf blower emissions fact sheet with landscapers, friends and neighbors, hand them out at public events, share on social media, and use them to give your own presentations.
- Use our eco-landscapers directory to find a contractor committed to cleaner, quieter yard care.
- Ask your landscaping contractor to avoid using gas leaf blowers, and other gas-powered yard equipment. Here’s a tip sheet for talking to your contractor, and here’s a letter to your contractor that you can personalize as you wish (here’s the Spanish version.)
- Do you live in a development with a Home Owners Association? Ask the HOA to require its landscape contractor to use electric blowers… or no blowers. Here’s a template letter you can tailor and send to your HOA.
- Replace your gas-powered yard equipment with safer tools, and practice healthy, sustainable yard care. Sometimes doing less work can actually be better for your yard!
For Whom the Leaf Blower Blows
Consumer grade cost cutters
available in mildly indifferent and turbo screw all y’all models*
shift the burden of debris
faster than you can say externality
*inline deregulators sold separately
Contributed by Jennifer Martenson