FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Doctor, Environmentalists to Talk Lawn Care on June 14 in Potomac, Md. [caption id="attachment_3492" align="alignleft" width="533" caption="Dr. Alan Vinitsky will be among the panelists at the June 14 event in Maryland."][/caption] POTOMAC, MD. — As May turns toward June the dandelions go to seed and the clover begins to flower on lawns across the Chesapeake Bay region. That inevitable ...

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011 6:30 PM, Cape Elizabeth Town Hall Paul Tukey’s award-winning 2009 documentary film, A Chemical Reaction, will be shown. It tells the compelling story of Hudson, Quebec, the first town in North America to ban lawn and garden chemicals. Mr. Tukey and other local natural lawn care experts will be present to discuss natural lawn care and hands-on environmental stewardship. The event is ...

May 17, 2011 Langley Advance Growing reaction More and more communities are banning cosmetic pesticide use. Find out why. By Heather Colpitts The issue of cosmetic pesticides will be examined when the documentary A Chemical Reaction is shown at a special viewing May 18. The Canadian Cancer Society, in partnership with Langley Environmental Partners Society (LEPS), Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s School of ...

[caption id="attachment_3227" align="alignleft" width="540" caption="The village of Sparwood welcomed lawn expert Paul Tukey with an electronic greeting spanning the town's entrance. "][/caption] After a whirlwind five-day tour that included more than 20 speeches, professional and homeowner training sessions, movie screenings and school assemblies, the Kootenay region of British Columbia in Canada appeared ...

"People were so enthralled, you could hear a pin drop . . . " "Seeing the film galvanized the people in the town to take action . . . " "If Canada can ban lawn chemicals, we should, and can, do it here, too . . . " THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE THOUSANDS OF COMMENTS we have heard in the past 16 months since the film, A Chemical Reaction, premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival in Montreal. Director Bret ...

In a fairly recent development, The Belfast Free Library in Maine has come to an agreement to host a screening of the film, A Chemical Reaction, and I'll follow up with a question-and-answer session about the pesticide issues presented therein. Here is a news article about the event: http://www.maineville.com/detail/166477.html ...

Just a few days shy of the fifth birthday of the SafeLawns Movement (Feb. 27), our cause is chugging along. We were in Maryland this past Monday putting together the pieces of what we hope will one day become the largest organic lawn research project in the nation's history. We can't wait to tell you more about it. Tonight, our film, A Chemical Reaction, will be shown as part of the Precautionary Principle ...

Peter Kettenbeil of Brossard, Quebec, is Vice Chairman of the Technology Transfer Committee of the Solar Buildings Research Network and consultant to numerous environmental projects. He submitted this guest blog on the subject of the Canada Blooms flower show voting to overturn its decision to screen the film, A Chemical Reaction. [caption id="attachment_2450" align="alignleft" width="563" caption="If you z ...

[caption id="attachment_2428" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A Chemical Reaction, a movie the chemical industry doesn't want you to see"][/caption] UPDATED AS OF 3:28 p.m. Dec. 1 TORONTO — Reaction to the news that Canada Blooms has opted to ban the film A Chemical Reaction has brought instant shock and even outrage from environmental supporters across North America. "I am disappointed that your sho ...

The film A Chemical Reaction is screening in Old Lyme Connecticut tonight at 7 at the Lyme Senior Center on Woods Road. The Conservation Commission has requested to the Board of Selectmen that the town switch to organic treatment of the playing fields at Town Woods Park. Dr. Jerome A. Silbert, executive director of the nonprofit Watershed Partnership Inc., will discuss the impact of pesticides on people's h ...