Vermont residents are being offered the opportunity to go green at a discounted price. Thanks to grants from the Agency of Natural Resources, National Life Group, Green Mountain Power, Central Vermont Public Service and Burlington Electric Department, Vermont homeowners will get a chance to exchange their gas-guzzling lawn mower for a brand new NeutonR battery-powered lawn mower. NeutonR is the nation's top-selling cordless electric mower, distributed by Vermont-based Country Home Products, at $150 off the retail price.

The discounted mowers will be available to the first 88 customers at each of five, Saturday events, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the following locations:

April 25 - Burlington - City Market

April 25 - Montpelier - National Life Group Building

May 2 - Middlebury - Otter Creek Brewery Parking Lot, Exchange Street

May 9 - Brattleboro - Windham Solid Waste Management District, Old Ferry
Road

May 16 - Upper Valley - Hartford Community Center for Recycling and Waste
Management

Sale models available at each onsite event include: the Neuton R CE 5 with 14-inch blade (retail $399 / sale $264) and CE 6 with 19-inch blade (retail $499 / sale $370) - sale prices include Vermont sales tax. Residents are encouraged to recycle their gasoline mowers for free thanks to participating Solid Waste Management Districts.

The goal of the Vermont Mow Down Pollution project is to empower consumers to do their part for cleaner air and less noise, something very achievable considering that:

* A typical gasoline-powered lawn mower emits more than 87 pounds of climate-changing carbon dioxide a year.
* Mowing with a gasoline-powered mower can pollute 100 acres of a neighborhood with noise.
* With over 54 million Americans mowing their lawns every weekend, producing a staggering 4.6 billion pounds of CO2 each year.
* Gasoline-powered lawn mowers cause at least 5 percent of the nation's total air pollutants.
* Just one gas-powered lawn mower used for a year can pollute as much as 43 new cars driven for a year.
* Each year homeowners spill 17 million gallons of gasoline when refilling their lawn equipment, which contaminates soil and groundwater.
* Replacing 450 dirty gas-guzzling mowers with the Neutrons sold through this event will keep 2.2 tons of smog-forming volatile organic compound emissions out of the atmosphere each year.

This project is made possible through the collaboration of several Vermont non-profit, business and government entities including Community Climate Action, 10% Challenge, Sustainable Energy Resource Group, Brattleboro Climate Protection, Middlebury Area Global Warming Action Coalition, National Life Group, City Market, participating Regional Solid Waste Management Districts and Country Home Products, a Vermont company that supports lawn mower clean air programs across the U.S. and is proud to be a major sponsor of this project.

About Country Home Products: Located in Vergennes, Vermont; designs and markets the nation's number one selling line of battery-powered lawn mowers. Since 2003, NEUTON mowers have helped prevent over 33 million pounds of greenhouse gas pollution from entering the atmosphere. For more information
on the complete line of NEUTONR products, please visit <http://www.neutonpower.com/>; www.neutonpower.com. For more information on the Neuton Battery-Powered Mower or please contact John Roderick, <mailto:john@jroderick.com> john@jroderick.com, 631-656-9736.

To learn more about the Mow Down Pollution program, visit <http://www.neutonpower.com/VT>; www.neutonpower.com/VT or <http://www.10percentchallenge.org/>; www.10percentchallenge.org or call Paul
Cameron at 802-251-8135. No advanced reservation of mowers is necessary, simply show up at one of the five events, with a gas-powered mower to recycle for free, if possible. The discount price is available even if participants do not have a gas mower to recycle while supplies last.