Archive | January, 2011
New Jersey Debating Pesticide-Free Playgrounds
As I write this at 1 p.m. on the final day of January, a committee of New Jersey state senate recommended approval of a bill that, similar to New York and Connecticut, would make pesticides illegal on school grounds. The vote was 5-0 in favor. New Jersey joins Maine and New Hampshire with almost identical [...]
Continue reading...Organic Lawn Video: Seeing is Believing
28. January 2011
Check out this new video created by Brett Plymale, the director of the film A Chemical Reaction. In the short clip (1:30), Brett compile footage of lawns that are tended organically at 25 locations across North America. Next time someone tells you organic lawn care doesn’t work, or means you have to settle for a [...]
Continue reading...More Research Points to Same Bee Conclusion
28. January 2011
Earlier this week we reported on USDA research that further implicated synthetic nicotine pesticides in the widespread bee deaths that have been categorized as Colony Collapse Disorder. A report out of a major California university today reached the same conclusion: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jan/28/another-pesticide-link-vanishing-honeybees/
Continue reading...Hell Breaks Loose: USDA Allows Genetically Modified Alfalfa
27. January 2011
It’s nauseatingly pathetic. I don’t know how else to say it. Despite hundreds of thousands of pleas to keep a vastly destructive technology under wraps, the Obama administration’s choice for Secretary of Agriculture opened the door for genetically modified alfalfa today. This marks the first widespread genetically modified perennial crop: http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/01/breaking-news-usda-to-fully-deregulate-monsantos-genetically-engineer-alfalfa-gene-contamination-of-feed-milk-meat-and-other-products-to-follow/. The move, what some people call [...]
Continue reading...Mainers Express Outrage at Governor’s Plan
27. January 2011
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Carol Kelly (207) 210-0789 Moms, Businesses and Doctors Demand Action on Toxic Chemicals Advocates Confront Governor’s Proposed Repeal of Maine’s Chemical Safety Laws and Recognize Republican and Democratic Legislators for Ongoing Leadership AUGUSTA, MAINE — Parents, business owners, doctors, and environmental health advocates converged on the State House on Thursday to express their outrage at [...]
Continue reading...Maine May Join New York, Connecticut With Statewide Pesticide Legislation
27. January 2011
The Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine will announce its support at noon today for a new bill presented to the state legislature that would eliminate synthetic pesticides from school grounds statewide. Following the lead of Connecticut (2005) and New York (2010), Rep. Mary Nelson of Falmouth, Maine, has submitted the Safe School Grounds Bill. [...]
Continue reading...New Maine Governor Continues to Mortify
26. January 2011
So far, in just a few months on the campaign trail and a few weeks since being sworn in, new Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R-Waterville) has infamously told President Obama to “Go to Hell” and then the NAACP to “Kiss My Butt.” Now, however, he has really pissed some people off, to use his vernacular. Included [...]
Continue reading...Connecticut Will Try to Take Back Local Pesticide Control
26. January 2011
Bill SB 244 Would Overturn State Preemption CONNECTICUT WILL ONCE AGAIN try to take the national lead on the control of lawn and garden pesticides. The state that passed the first law banning pesticides outside of schools and daycare centers in 2005 now has a bill in the legislature that would overturn a pesticide preemption law [...]
Continue reading...SafeLawns Announces Approved Products & Services for 2011
26. January 2011
Though the list is expected to evolve continually as it has for the past five years, the SafeLawns Foundation is delighted to announce the initial 2011 list of Approved Contractors and Products. All of these entities have pledged not to utilize or sell any synthetic fertilizers or pesticides in their formulations or services (SafeLawns makes [...]
Continue reading...Ingham to Lead Rodale Institute Research
25. January 2011
Soil Food Web Founder Joins Smallwood at Historic Organic Birthplace The nation’s most important organic farming research is now in the hands of one of its most capable scientists. The Rodale Institute, the defacto birthplace of the organic movement in the United States, is announcing the appointment of Dr. Elaine Ingham as director of research today. Considered [...]
Continue reading...- Miracle Gro Deal with Wildlife Federation Outrages Environmental Community
- Citing Guilty Plea, Wildlife Federation Ends Agreement with Scotts
- Chemical Industry Convinces Toronto Flower Show to Ban Film
- Researcher: Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriages in Cattle, Humans
- Groundcover Wednesday: Lemon Thyme
- Amidst Wildlife Federation Firestorm, Scotts Miracle Gro Fined $4.5 Million for Toxic Bird Seed, Falsifying Records
- SafeLawns T-Shirts & Lawn Signs Now Available
- Good Morning America to Showcase Natural Pesticides
- Use New Neem Product for Grub Control
- As Wildlife Federation Defends Its Greed, Scotts Continues to Assault Our Sensibilities
- Elisabeth Beaubien: howdy Paul, sodium laurel sulfate... perhaps no...
- Karina Zedalis: Many school & municipal sports fields are heav...
- jack: One sign is not enough. On our soccer fields, the...
- Tom: I just got unwanted service from Scotts. They spr...
- The Weed's Network: Great environmental eductation Paul. Thanks. Dav...
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