Welcome to a Greener Chatham
Green LandscapingBetter landscaping techniques can make Chatham a cleaner, quieter, more peaceful place. Whether you’re hiring a service or doing it yourself, there are steps you can take to make your landscaping healthier and more sustainable.1 Hour of lawnmowing = 100 mile car tripThat’s right. A Swedish study found that just 1 hour of using a gas lawnmower spews out the same amount of pollution as a 100 mile car trip.Gas leaf blowers are even worse: running a gas leaf blower for an hour is as polluting as driving a car from Chatham to Disneyworld.Electric equipment is a quieter, cleaner, healthier solutionNo more gas spills on your lawn and gas smell in your garage and on your clothes. No more waking the whole neighborhood with Saturday morning mowing and blowing. Switching to electric mowers, trimmers, and blowers dramatically reduces the air and noise pollution that harms our health and our environment.Use our handy checklists to help make more sustainable choicesDeveloped by lawncare experts, these checklists provide a great foundation for sustainable landscaping, from electric equipment use to leaf-mulching. This one is a checklist for communicating with your landscaping professional in English, Spanish, or Portuguese. This one has DIY suggestions from the most basic to the best practices for experienced gardeners.