Earthfriendly Landscapes does it again! Just finished our company’s newest addition to its green fleet: a 48″ lithium-ion lawn mower that proves to be as effecient in cutting grass as its pollution bellowing gas brother. Boasting a 2-hour run time between charges, this battery powered bohemoth proves again, “You dont need gas to cut your grass!”
Congrats to Oak Terrace Preserve in North Charleston SC, for going one step further in their pursuit of being one of America’s greenest communities.
By using Earthfriendly Landscapes zero-emission, chemical-free maintenance program, they are greatly reducing their carbon footprint, effectively removing in one day the same pollution as a semi-truck spews out in 100,000 miles!
Oak Terrace Preserve’s claim to fame: “The only neighborhood in North America listed by the industry-leading Green Builder, the green-built Oak Terrace Preserve is also only one of two developments named by the magazine in the Southeast US.”
The Columbia division of national food delivery giant U.S. Foodservice is pioneering a program to turn greasy used frying oil from kitchens it serves into biodiesel to help gas up its fleet of more than 150 trucks.
With regular diesel topping $4 a gallon and rising, the division has plenty of incentive to make the program successful, both in lowering its fuel costs and its carbon footprint.
The program, which could be a model for the rest of the company nationwide, already has received the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control’s 2011 Earth Day Award, division president Durwood Owens said from his office in Lexington.