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Companies Work Together to Raise Water-Waste Awareness

As part of the Irrigation Association 2013 Smart irrigation Month Competition, Central Turf & Irrigation Supply has teamed up with Hunter Industries. Central Turf & Irrigation Supply will help promote the importance of using water by offering incentives to customers who conserve water.

July 16, 2013

Business

Landscaper Offers Tips To Produce Greener Lawns

Wasted water is a huge concern across America, especially during the dry months. Landscape sustainability expert and professional landscaper, Joe Lamp’l of “Growing A Greener World,” has given a variety of tips to maintain a healthy lawn.

June 28, 2013

Business

Educate Clients on How to Keep Lawns Healthy

Helping a client understand the importance of maintaining a healthy lawn can potentially make your job easier. Here are few helpful hints from The Telegraph Herald to encourage your clients to maintain a healthy lawn and potentially make a worthwhile investment.

May 28, 2013

Business

Bill Passes to Allow Xeriscaping

One bill was passed in the House on Friday to prevent homeowner’s associations from restricting homeowners to xeriscape their lawns. Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, said it’s unreasonable for a landscape design to be refused because it doesn’t fit in with the other lawns in the neighborhood, according to The Dallas Morning News.

May 20, 2013

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Students Create Device to Cut Down on Lawnmower Emissions

A few California-college level engineers got a little creative to help the environment. The team has developed a device that can be attached to lawnmowers that will cut down on emissions, according to the Medical Daily.

May 14, 2013

Lawn maintenance

What to know about the tawny crazy ant

As fire ant populations dwindle in some southern states, a new pest is spreading like crazy. Fire ants are no longer the hot topic they once were in Texas and along the southern coasts of the United States. Whether their numbers are in decline from efficient control measures or the recent extreme hot and dry summers in those areas, the red imported fire ant has unwillingly passed the torch, so to speak, to a new Public Enemy No. 1.

May 1, 2013

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Project Seeks to Harvest Fog for Irrigation

The man-made mist is part of an effort to help slum-dwellers in Peru harvest moisture from the air. With a small grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, UW students and professors are building and testing fog catchers – and hoping to reel in a bigger grant to mount a full-scale operation in Lima. “It’s like a cold sauna in here,” UW ecologist and civil engineer Susan Bolton said recently, ducking into the plastic “hoop house,” where industrial-grade misters spewed out a cloud of fine water droplets. A noisy exhaust fan drew the cloud through a drape of black plastic netting.

April 1, 2013

Business

Gas with Ethanol Can Make Small Engines Fail

The Environmental Protection Agency has approved gasoline with 15 percent ethanol for use in cars year 2001 or newer, yet it prohibits its use in mowers and other power equipment, stating it may cause damage. A Department of Energy study found that E15 caused hotter operating temperatures, erratic running, and engine-part failure. But even gas with the usual 10 percent ethanol (E10) could help destroy small engines.

March 29, 2013

Landscaping equipment

Equipment matters: Cut back on down time

Here are four tips to enhance the life of your mower. As the icy chill of winter starts to melt away, welcoming in the green of spring, it’s time for landscapers to pull off the tarps and gas up their lawn mowers. But before they crank up the machine and lower the blade, they should […]

March 4, 2013

Business

Court Denies Challenge to EPA Ethanol Ruling

A federal court on Tuesday preserved an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruling that permits the sale of a high-ethanol fuel blend. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied a rehearing on the EPA decision that put fuels with a 15-percent ethanol concentration, known as E15, on the market.

January 22, 2013

Business

Propane Mower Incentive Program Renewed

PERC has renewed its Propane Mower Incentive Program into 2013, giving landscape contractors a full year to apply for more than $1 million in incentives toward the purchase of new propane-fueled commercial mowers or propane mower conversion kits.

January 18, 2013

Business

WeatherTrak Earns EPA WaterSense Label

HydroPoint Data Systems, Inc.’s WeatherTRAK Smart Water Manager Solution, including all models of WeatherTRAK ET Pro2 and WeatherTRAK LC weather-based irrigation controllers, have earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) WaterSense label by meeting the program’s water-efficiency and performance criteria.

December 17, 2012