madbury's Profile

Name: FixItYourself.com
URL: http://www.fixityourself.com

I'll add to the comment about snowblowers only being for people who are lazy: While I certainly am lazy ;-) there's also the fundamental problem that the city snow plow likes to leave a 36 inch wall of heavy wet snow across my driveway. It can be a long haul to dig out of it by hand.

There aren't actually a lot of green snowblowers out there other than the shovel and the wovel. Honda has a hybrid that you can't buy in the US, and Ariens is coming out an electric model that they claim is as powerful as a two-stage gasonline snowblower. (more info here: http://www.snowblowers.net/green-snowblowers)

My guess is that there's not more innovation because people don't use snowblowers very often, so their aggregate impact on the environment doesn't compare with refrigerators, cars, etc, which have seen tremendous "green" innovation.