VOTE FOR PUSH POWER GRASS MOWER ZERO EMISSIONS ON 350.ORG

http://northamericanfund.350.org/projects/douglasnadler
Name
Push Grass Mower Zero Emissions Project
Amount requested
$1,000.00
Status
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Round ended
2010-08-09
Push Grass Mower Zero Emissions Project for $1,000.00
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PROJECT SUMMARY
Georgian Triangle Earth Day Celebration will have youth use the three push mowers (made by Fiskars) to encourage our Great Lake community to stop using climate changing and small creature (amphibians for example) harmful gas grass mowers. We will culminate our campaign that will include educational flyers on 10/10/10 with a rally. We will then start in the spring of 2011 a business to hire more youth and have more push mowers take over grass cutting in our area. This project will then work with our clothesline zero emission project starting this August 3.

PROJECT RESULTS
The Environment Protection Agency’s statistics on gas and even electric grass mowers is shocking: 880 million gallons of gasoline used with 53 plus million gas mowers; one gas mower going for one hour is equivalent to 8 new cars going 85 Km an hour; 18 million gallons of gasoline being spilt just filling up gas mowers and the list go on. Our project clearly helps lower emissions to zero. Youth no longer will breathe in the fumes nor be subject to ground ozone while they do their summer work. Our community will lower its greenhouse gas emissions (EPA says that gas mowers account for 5% of pollution emissions) and mentor adults so they give up the gas mowers completely, and finally join us in promoting gardens instead of lawns.

TIMELINE
We will start our project before the end of August, 2010 with our Eco Action Centre resident 10 youth and continue the project till October 10, 2010 to be continued in the spring of 2011.

COMMUNITY
Our Georgian Bay community of Collingwood, Thornbury and Wasaga Beach, Ontario is made up of fewer than 25,000 people, but there are many people over the age of 50 in this area who hire youth to cut their lawns . Everyone will be impacted by our project: no noise, stronger people pushing these fantastic mowers, no pollution to breathe in, zero emissions from the project as Georgian Triangle Earth Day Celebration has now tested connecting a push mower to a bicycle and we’ll go from one place to the next without the use of cars to transport the mowers, engage youth to mentor their community in being responsible for climate stabilization and pay youth to have Earth supportive work during the spring and summer of 2011 and beyond .

BUDGET
Each Fiskars “Momentum” mower is around $320, including tax. We will buy 3 mowers to start with 350.org grant and have $40 for flyers to educate people on the huge benefits of push mowers.

ONGOING AND ALTERNATIVE FUNDING
We will have this project ongoing until we end the use of gas mowers in our area for homes. If you do not fund this project, and what a shame that would be, we’ll apply to TD Bank’s “Friends of the Environment” to fund the project before spring of 2011.