One lawn mower does minimal damage... But how many lawnmowers are there? Some of the comment here are... Ignorant and rude.

I personally prefer push mowers as light, no cable and noise... or the electric mulching one to deposit nutrients where they are needed...

Ian, Freiburg,

Buy him a goat - it's greener than a push mower and you can spend the time saved to think up more ingenious ways of obliterating your husband's hard earned free time.

Wives can be greener too and throw out your hoover and resort to hanging your carpets once a week and beating them. Fair's fair.

iain, Manchester, UK

Gas Lawn mowers unfortunately pollute our air much more than we think. I use a Neuton Battery Powered mower and am very pleased with it. No cords and no gas to ever buy again and it's very quiet and yet gets the job done well. You can check out their site:
http://www.neutonpower.com/

John Arnold, Las Vegas, USA

Since you're the one that considers it important, buy the push-mower and mow the grass yourself.

If you think that would take too much effort, please note that that's what your husband thinks, too. Rejoice - it's good that married couples have values in common.

David, San Marcos, Texas

David, San Marcos, Texas

How much fuel will be used to manufacture your hand push mower? Would the fuel run the mower for the rest of its enviromental life?

tony, romsey , uk

How many who are so concerned about the planet keep pets whose eco footprint is greater that a Humvee doing 20,000 miles per annum as an average size dog's eco footprint is?
Forget lawn mowers they really don't matter..

David Cage, Highworth, UK

I agree with Rod. But I'd go further to say Environmentalism is Communism by Stealth and fairy story to get more tax from the population. Constantly our freedom is being eroded, restrictions are placed on us in the name of saving the planet.

Dave Wilson, Glasgow,

Im a Grounds Maintainance worker for a Housing Association,and use a mower pretty much all day long most of the year.A Push mower is in my mind, quicker,and more manouverable to get into those tight corners,and edges.The damage exhaust fumes cause ,against the environment goes without saying....

Brian Dennis, Orpington ,Kent, .U.K.

If you are so interested in saving the planet, buy a hand mower and do it yourself! On second thoughts, I am going to suggest to the other five households in my street that we all buy a hand mower, and we can say 'we saved the planet' You are a mug!

robin biles, gainsborough, lincs

Don't bother. His power mower is as likely to affect climate as much as a teaspoon of water taken from the Thames will prevent world flooding. Oh what government scaremongering has done in brainwashing the unknowing!!!

Rod Eaton, Melksham, UK

Typical woman, expect the man to do everything. No sign of sex equality here! Try walking to work or the shops for once and the fuel saved will power the mower for the season!

John, Ayr, UK

Easy,just tell him that regular use of a manual mower will give him a six pack that even David Beckham would envy.In other words appeal to his vanity.

Rita Cocking, Plymouth, England

How can i get my wife to quit using makeup and mow the lawn with a pair of hand clipers?

David Beach, Boise, USA

I'm only small but find it perfectly easy to use a manual lawnmower. I deliberately leave long edges for bugs to live in. Earth is suffering enough, we don't need to scour our gardens with electric and petrol tools. Why not just leave areas wild?

smith, reading,

Lady, get out here and push it yourself.
You could always mow topless which should get him out ino the garden.
Give it a go

Derek, Perth, Australia

do it yourself

if it is that easy to do

knight, aberdeen, uk

Wives are Luddites. They hate to see their main man kicking back a little. Not only do they want to keep him busy, frequently on time-wasting, unnecessary chores, but now prefer him to work inefficiently. Illustrates the folly of allowing someone to supervise a task they can't do themselves.

Andrew Milner, Karuizawa, Japan