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If you are not doing anything Wednesday at 3 you may find it profitable (in the highest sense) to tune into the webinar SUSTAINING GROUNDS, produced by myself with the help of Boston University student Axel Blumberg. What does that title mean? If you are a business, or an institution, a hospital, a school, anything with some land around it, those grounds of your facility need to be sustained. They need to be protected from peril, first of all, and that’s the first thing we will talk about. Some time ago I had the luck to hear a presentation by the National Fire Protection Association’s urban/wildfire interface expert, Michele Steinberg. It was a great presentation and it had information in it about how to make your facility safer. It was once true that you only had to worry about this in the arid West. But global warming is causing wildfires to happen in places where they didn’t happen before.
That’s the peril part. The promise part is what you do to take care of your grounds. Are you using gasoline-powered equipment? These often two-stroke engines are the most polluting kind. The workers are often breathing some of that toxic gas. It is contributing to air pollution. Its use causes spills and wastes. Once you mix gas and oil there’s no good recycling option for what results. It is easy for people who don’t like the noise of gas-powered lawn care to pass restrictions on their use, and I am one of those advocates. But it is not easy for companies to transition to electrical lawn care, or for inhouse grounds care staff. We should invest in a transition that starts with education, allows time to phase in new practices, and offers help with the change. One who has figured out how to make it work is George Carrette, who founded Ecoquiet Lawncare, and who is a member of the American Green Zone Alliance.
This is the paradox of each day, full of peril, full of promise. Maybe we get through ok if we fend off one and embrace the other.
Here’s the flyer – the link to register:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/JCxXzwA8TKWYMxinKAsmTQ#/registration
It will be recorded and posted at www.bu.edu/rccp at some point in the near future.
That’s the peril part. The promise part is what you do to take care of your grounds. Are you using gasoline-powered equipment? These often two-stroke engines are the most polluting kind. The workers are often breathing some of that toxic gas. It is contributing to air pollution. Its use causes spills and wastes. Once you mix gas and oil there’s no good recycling option for what results. It is easy for people who don’t like the noise of gas-powered lawn care to pass restrictions on their use, and I am one of those advocates. But it is not easy for companies to transition to electrical lawn care, or for inhouse grounds care staff. We should invest in a transition that starts with education, allows time to phase in new practices, and offers help with the change. One who has figured out how to make it work is George Carrette, who founded Ecoquiet Lawncare, and who is a member of the American Green Zone Alliance.
This is the paradox of each day, full of peril, full of promise. Maybe we get through ok if we fend off one and embrace the other.
Here’s the flyer – the link to register:
https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/JCxXzwA8TKWYMxinKAsmTQ#/registration
It will be recorded and posted at www.bu.edu/rccp at some point in the near future.
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