DC banned gas blowers effective January 2022 & it's been wonderful. It's so much more peaceful. I do think the alternate version also was compelling, where cit

DC banned gas blowers effective January 2022 & it's been wonderful. It's so much more peaceful. I do think the alternate version also was compelling, where cities make loud & quiet hours. Part of the really painful hard thing about noise pollution is that it ends up becoming perpetual. There's 10 minutes of peace, then another gas blower starts up someplace else. Trying to make hours for noise sounds great, but it's also notable that in the US at least, a huge amount of the grounds-keeping is a limited number of roving contractors. It's their full time job to be doing effectively making noise. If we were super advanced we could schedule some kind of roving zone system, changing hour by hour or day by day... but simply getting rid of the really bad noise offenders has proven to be cheap & enormously effective. Shout out to Seth's Blog, leaf blower parable. May we all collectively find the courage to do obvious easy winning change. https://seths.blog/2022/11/the-leaf-blower-parable/ https://seths.blog/2022/11/the-leaf-blower-parable/