Archive | February, 2011
Guest Blog: Attract Pollinators With These Plants
This is the final installment of Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn, a four-part series by High Country Gardens founder and chief horticulturist, David Salman. Salman also writes The Xeric Gardener. Click here for Part I, Part II and Part III. News Flash: Dandelions Are Flowers, Too Villainized by chemical lawn-care companies for decades, these harmless little [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: New Hampshire Pesticide Vote Due Tuesday
27. February 2011
NOTE: Last Tuesday advocates for and against the Child Safe Playing Fields Act in New Hampshire made their arguments. What follows is a recap from Ellen Fine, founder of the Leah Collective. Witnesses, like Dr. Alex Lu of Harvard who is on an ad hoc committee overseeing the Environmental Protection Agency, testified in favor of HB [...]
Continue reading...EcoSMART Joins SafeLawns Movement
27. February 2011
This will hit the national media wires on Monday, Feb. 28 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA, GA. — EcoSMART Technologies, Inc., the world’s leading producer of organic pesticides, and the only company that produces a complete line of EPA Exempt pesticides in the United States, announced today it is joining forces with the SafeLawns Foundation on a series [...]
Continue reading...A Week for Reflection
27. February 2011
The SafeLawns Foundation Turns 5 Today THIS WILL BE ONE OF THOSE WEEKS in life where reflections slap you in the face, hit you over the head and buckle your knees. For me, it’s a time when life’s work and clock will make a rare convergence to force a rather peripatetic person to just stop, at [...]
Continue reading...Monsanto Begins Smear Campaign on Huber
26. February 2011
NOTE: This is the second in a two-part series centered around our conversations with Howard Vlieger in the past two weeks, including additional information that has come to light about Monsanto, the manufacturer of Roundup, in the past 48 hours. Bio-Chem Giant Openly Lies About Scientific Studies Concerning Roundup AND SO IT BEGINS. Just as Col. Don [...]
Continue reading...Taking Action in Your Community: Movie is Major Tool
26. February 2011
“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 [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Take Roundup Warnings Seriously
25. February 2011
NOTE: Since our publication of Col. Don Huber’s letter to the United States Department of Agriculture warning of the dire consequences of too much weed-killer known as Roundup in the soil, validation of his concerns has come from numerous sources. This note is from Jim Martindale, a consultant with North American Ag-Gro and President of [...]
Continue reading...Northwest Lawn & Garden Pesticide Summit Set For Seattle
25. February 2011
SAVE THE DATE/MEDIA ALERT National Leaders to Focus on Emerging Legislation, Product Alternatives SEATTLE — Amidst an avalanche of disturbing scientific data and proposals of sweeping legislative reform, North America’s leaders in the lawn and garden alternative pesticide industry will gather in Seattle, June 4, for the first Northwest Lawn & Garden Pesticide Summit. Presented by the Rodale [...]
Continue reading...Organic Lawn Care: Step by Step
24. February 2011
WITH THE LAWN CARE NATION fixated on the so-called four-step plan perpetuated in the past generation by the chemical fertilizer and pesticide industry, one of the most common questions we receive is: “How many steps is your organic plan?” In its purest form, organic lawn care doesn’t really follow a “step” program. Success is based on [...]
Continue reading...Roundup Warning Letter Came Before USDA Decision
23. February 2011
News that Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriage Has Been Slow to Catch On Just as Col. Don Huber’s letter that we revealed here seven days ago is becoming widely circulated on the Internet in various sites, a key piece of information has become available this evening. Huber, a former Emeritus Professor at Purdue University and coordinator [...]
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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28. February 2011
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