An Academy Award-winning actress known for camouflaging work on the big screen, as a mother of four, the enduring style icon never fails to serve looks.
Just when we thought we knew everything there was to know about Cate Blanchett, we learn one new factoid: She really hates leaf blowers.
And, no, we’re not talking about her making one salty comment on a podcast: TikToker Kate Wheeler posted a nearly minute-long compilation of Blanchett talking smack about leaf blowers to the press.
I could be here talking to you for three hours about leaf blowers, Blanchett said during one red carpet interview. I hate them so much.
The recent hush for the real estate’s switch to electric leaf blowers, string trimmers, and other motorized tools used to maintain lush grounds dotted with popular trees and roses.
We have neighbors very close to us on one side, so they appreciate that the equipment is quieter, doesn’t pollute, Allyson Whalley, the director of buildings, gardens, and grounds at Tudor Place, told Insider.
The gas-to-electric transition at the neoclassical landmark, which has stood for more than two centuries in Georgetown, came ahead of a ban on the use of gas-powered leaf blowers that went into effect in the nation’s capital last year.
With summer heating up, so too are the instruments of tidy lawns. Increasingly, these totems of suburbia are electric.
That’s in part because more than 150 municipalities across the USA now limit or prohibit the use of gas-powered leaf blowers, which produce an outsize amount of pollution and a din that can ruin even the nicest of summer days.
There’s more action to come. California next year will ban the sale of new gas-powered leaf blowers and lawn mowers, among other equipment, though the state will still allow existing devices to be used.
Operating a commercial leaf blower for an hour generates as much pollution as driving a cheap on gas small car about 1,100 miles, according to the California Air Resources Board.
That pollution — and the noise — are particularly hazardous to the people using the equipment. That’s in part because about 30% of the oil-and-gas mix that powers so-called two-stroke engines, which often run tools like leaf blowers and string trimmers, isn’t burned.
Instead, it gets kicked off in tiny droplets that users of the equipment can then inhale.
Environmental groups have argued that lawns, in general, are the bigger problem.
Our collective obsession with emerald-toned backdrops makes grass the largest irrigated crop in the USA. It requires enormous amounts of water and synthetic fertilizers — all for something that isn’t consumed by anyone but for a few lucky goats.
Companies can invest in charging infrastructure that goes in the back of a van or a work truck, Roach said. And they can acquire extra batteries that can be swapped out when other ones run low.
On the other hand, NASCAR, Truck Series, Motocross, etc., probably uses more fuel in a year than all the gas powered tools in America and no one is complaining about them!?!
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I looked all through Kate Blanchett,s life history nowhere can I find any sign of engineering knowledge ,what I do know from reading all American media is that one of the most rising “professions ” are online “influencers ” . They get paid by big business USA to promote lines of clothes -perfumes-makeup -food- and any other product that a manufacturer wants to promote. As an ex engineer in need of money I think I should start doing the same. Of course this is a product of the Biden Democrat policy yet it doesn’t stop rich people traveling in private… Read more »
Just got the latest information –King Charles was in Scotland and visited an Alloa foodbank in his £6 Million private helicopter which expelled -0.3TONS of carbon emissions in 11 minutes –that’s more than the 0.2 tons a member of the public uses in a week.
He left London in the same helicopter and returned over 684 miles burning 4.6 TONS of carbon.
You can see the class system in the UK is alive and well.
According to Dutch news approx 1,700 livestock farmers have applied for voluntary government buyout schemes standard buyout price is 100 % of value =665 farmers ,those near nature reserves get 120 % value those numbers are 920 ,smaller farms =104 . The government has run out of money at present -notice the low number of small farmers as they rely on their livelihood for their existence. What should be born in mind is that this will raise up the price of food ,wont worry the rich but the poor will suffer. Ger Koopmans chairman of the farmers organisation LTO isn’t… Read more »