Zero Air Pollution : slogans

FOR YOUR PERSONAL OR GRASSROOTS GROUP USE:

Copyrights do not allow you to sell these designs for monetary gain.
Where the following phrases or slogans have been created and/or published by another person or entity, references precede the quote.

HAVE FUN:

Be able to laugh at your own predicament. Joke or complain about machines that blow high and wide, that overpower your senses with odors and noise, the health problems they create or aggravate.

Consider pathetic, quirky or witty reactions most people have, that are on the verge of getting out of hand, when a blower intrudes on life. Come up with funny or clever twists, advertisements, jingles, plays-on-words, short jokes, sketches, or cartoons.

HOW TO USE THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTED IDEAS
DESIGNS:	When you create your own designs or slogans, focus on problems, not people. Exaggerate. Copy easily recognizable design ideas that are not protected by copyright, such as a circle with a slash across a picture of dirt, leaves and dust blowing up, to convey the idea “No Blowers”. Create sports “warning” cards, Yellow (a warning card), Red (a violation) to distribute to blower users or their employers. Create a “Neighborhood Watch” type sign with the caption: “Blowers are intruders into our neighborhood”

USES: Make Extras for friends and family, and/or as “Gag Gifts.”	Personal correspondence on post cards or greeting cards (you can print out postcards and greeting cards, or make stickers to add to plain card stock). Business cards. Pass them out to violators. Print them on “personalized” checks. Make bumper stickers Magnetic cards for refrigerators or file drawers. Enlarge them for posters, yard or door signs. If you are campaigning for blower legislation, use sparingly in reports or lavishly on signs and banners.

HOW TO:	1. Print out, or copy slogan onto a disk, to take to a photocopy or printing business for reproduction as posters, cards, decals, or on T-shirts or other fabric (make a Bar-B-Q apron whose statement appeals for “NO Blowers – at least until we’re done with dinner”). Note: Iron-on colors may appear lighter than originals. You can also use a photo transfer paste found at craft shops to transfer a color photocopy that is on regular paper. Colors are lighter and a little different shade. 2. Print out on sheets especially made for computer printouts. These might be poly-silk adhesive-backed sheets, magnetic sheets to cut to your desired shape or already in business card sizes, or design borders and/or eye-catching shapes to print out on white full sheet adhesive paper for cutting to size yourself. Check out suppliers online, such as www. Avery.com. Haines T-shirts may still have a kit, but we couldn’t find the link.

Internet Single Item Orders	Our search turned up www. blg-dallas.com (That’s BLG, not BIG), (also goes to www. stickersetc.com) is the only one we found that will take an order for ONE bumper sticker or other item. One bumper sticker =$5-$10, six-ten=$3-$6 each, plus minimum of $5 shipping or 15% of the order. Their www. tshirtstoo.com at the time of the origination of this ZAPLA.org site, has ONE shirt for $20-$26, or six-ten for $13-$15 each, plus the same shipping costs. They also do hats and visors. It appears that they print out the same transfer paper decals you could do yourself with a color printer. But, their prices include help with design, too. We haven’t used them, so let us know if you are satisfied or if you try another company that will take small orders for reasonable prices. For other companies, search the Internet or Yellow Pages under business, advertising, promotional items, labels, stickers, bumper stickers.

T-SHIRTS, VISORS, CAPS	Print out a list of dates when and cities where CA blower bans were enacted. One list is on www. nonoise.____/cqs. or LINK list of when CA blower bans were enacted: use on T shirts, with titles: LINK to our Laws page for information.

SLOGANS and PHRASES TO QUOTE (See also Debate 5: Complaints, Comments and Comparisons of Ban Advocates)
James Fennimore Cooper	“There is something commanding in honest indignation.”
Margaret Mead	“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does."
World Health Organization Definition	“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
(96.11.2) AQMD	“A lot of our pollution comes from the products and services we use everyday. All of us can help by making some simple changes in the way we live.”
(97.11.1) Robert A. Jones, Reporter.	“Knowledge is power, after all. If we use it correctly, this knowledge could get us a long way.”
(97.8.3) Landscaper	“It’s really not a leaf blower, it’s a power broom”
(98.11.1) Menlo park resident	“There’s nothing you can say to defend the blower itself.”
(98.2.1) Robert Smaus, L.A. Times Garden Editor	“Clean carpets are great; a swept garden is not.”
(98.3.6) Nanette Blanchard, Reporter	“The most frequent complaint Americans make about their neighborhoods is noise “
(98.7.1) Dr. Harvey Gardener, Huntington NY audiologist	“Annoyance isn’t very measurable”
94.?.1 Roger B. Swain, Ph.D., Science Editor at Horticulture magazine, host of PBS Victory Garden	Amish: We are Quiet on the Land (ck)“.. .secondhand noise is every bit as irritating as the secondhand smoke from cigarettes” (ck) “Noise is an emission, too”
97.10.1 Noise Pollution Clearing house:	“Good Neighbors keep their noise to themselves”
97.11.4	Knowledge is Power – if used correctly.
98.11.1	Blowers “create an illusion of usefulness” Definition: Blowers: technical irrationality Definition: Blowers: a barbarous grotesquerie . . .a noise so terrible as to negate any possible benefits of the machine Why are blowers accorded the respect, the deference and the legitimacy they do not deserve? Blowers: The latest weapon in the arsenal of technological terror No one is safe from leaf-blower terrorism. Webster: terrorism - n. - the use of force to demoralize and to intimidate....
Southern California Air Quality Management District	“Leaf blowers contribute emissions, which cause health detriments to thepublic.”
Adam Sandler	For goodness sake please use your wooden rake.
CA Health and Safety Code 41700	“No person shall discharge from any source air contaminants that cause injury, detriment, nuisance or annoyance to the public”
Manufacturer User Manual	“Spectators . . . must be warned”
Manufacturer User Manual	“Children and animals prevented from coming nearer than 15M [50 feet]”
Manufacturer User Manual	“. . .equip. . .any other person working within the 15M [50 feet] Safety Zone with the required Protective Equipment and clothing.”
Manufacturer User Manual, approx. 1997	WARNING: The engine exhaust from this product contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm.”
Public Health Nurse Maureen Cruise,	The blower is an equal opportunity polluter. It tends to affect the gardener with more ferocity.
Steve Heckeroth, speaking at an ARB Board Meeting, June 28, 2001:	“Another way to test [pollution of automobile exhaust] is to take a lawn mower or a leaf blower, put it in your living room, turn it on and then sit there and explain to your family why it's more important to use this energy saving equipment or time saving equipment over a regular a push mower.
Julie Newmar, Actress Interview with Wall Street Journal reporter, Peter Gumbel	“At least I got his attention.” Regarding an illegal act she committed to call her neighbor’s and the neighbor’s gardener’s attention to leaf blower noise.
Dr. Robert Blum Emergency Room night shift physician.	“The ear is exceedingly delicate” ”The rip of a gas blower induces a startle response. . “ “The instinct is fight or flight”
Emile Bayle, Mayor, San Marino, CA	“Power tools are abused all the time.”

ZAP's Greatest Slogans

	“Leaf” Blowers: The LOUDEST Garden Pest.
	Leaf blowers are also dirt blowers.
	Customers not willing to pay more?. . . Educate . . . then negotiate
	Yellow soccer warning cards: “WARNING: You are endangering your health and that of your neighbors by using a blower”. OR: “WARNING: You are violating the law by your use of a blower.” Red soccer warning cards: “VIOLATION”
	AQMD has the 5% Solution. Use a Rake and Broom (About 5% more work time than blowers, if at all)
	Silence is Golden The truth is drowned out by the Noise
	Just say “NO” to leaf blowers: Report violations to ________. (community group number or city hotline report number)
	Just Say “NO”. . .When Leaf Blowers Blow
	This Family Supports Blower-Free Gardening (yard sign or bumper sticker) or This is a Blower-Free Zone (yard sign)
	Lack of complaints encourages lack of compliance
	Efforts to ban blowers have fallen on deaf ears
	Neighborhood peer pressure is the Key to Compliance
	This is a blower-free neighborhood
	We don’t blow dust into your house, why does your yard worker blow dust into ours?
	You CAN make a difference. Be informed. (list websites)
	Patience is not always a virtue!!! Enforcement Now!
	Compliance with leaf blower ban Now! or Compliance with leaf blower regulations Now!
	I’m still coughing, and the blower ban is several years old! REPORT VIOLATIONS to _____________________
	A law unenforced for even one day is one day too long. Enforcement Now!
	Compliance Now!
	What do Polluters do to protect their profits? Answer 1, ”Anything” or Answer 2, “Violate the law.”
	If concerned citizens groups are in your way and you are [insert name of manufacturer], you [insert tactics used against your efforts]:
	Why have we worked [a year] to “work it out”, while _____ demands no ban at all???
	Manufacturers think your constituents are all gardeners. You know better.
	“No person shall discharge from any source air contaminants that cause INJURY, DETRIMENT, NUISANCE or Annoyance to the Public.” California State Health and Safety Code Sec. 41700 Pair the above with the following: “Leaf blowers contribute emissions, which cause health detriments to thepublic.” Southern California Air Quality Management District
	This car pollutes less than a leaf blower! (Some cars are quieter, too) (Definitely true in California, with its strict emission regulations.)
	Blowers are used in this neighborhood ___ days a week, for up to ___minutes/hours a day, blowing dust, debris, pesticides, dried feces, road dust onto our cars, and into our houses and lungs
	If there is no electricity, what do you do? Use a rake and broom.
	Someone in this family works at night. Sleep is more important than a clean sidewalk! [Use a graphic with blower cleaning grass clippings and dust]
	Would you want the pilot of your next airplane flight to lose sleep because of leaf blowers? or Would you want to fly with a pilot who missed sleep because of leaf blowers?

AD CAMPAIGNS AND SPOOFS	“Tired of breathing clean air? Use a dirt blower.” “Want to reduce your lung capacity? Open your door to a blower.” “You, too, can have cardiopulmonary problems. Go out to your garden when you hear a neighboring leaf blower.”

CARTOONS and COMIC STRIPS	Since the mid-1700s, editorial cartoons, using simple text and a single image, have been vehicles for public criticism and political commentary. It's accessible to the public, and can respond powerfully and even more vividly to current events. When Harper’s Weekly and cartoonist Thomas Nast set out to expose the corruption of William Macy Tweed, leader of New York’s Tammany Hall political machine, "Boss" Tweed was claimed to have cried: "I don’t care what the newspapers print about me. Most of my constituents can’t read anyway . . . But stop them damn pictures!" Specifically for ZAPLA, the rule of thumb is this: Don’t make the blower operator the “bad guy” instead of the machine and the problems it causes. The blower operator should not be shown in full. Hands, perhaps with legs and feet could be enough. If shown at all, operator should be unaware of the turmoil blower is causing. Have a side-splitting or provocative idea, but fear you can't draw a stragith line? Share it with us, or better yet, actual cartoonists and syndicates with national distribution! See our comic strip contact list for ideas on where to contribute.