Archive | August, 2011
A Tale of Two Photographs
I mowed the lawn. Or, I should say, I prepared to mow the lawn. I should begin by telling you that I enjoy mowing; I always have, ever since we upgraded from the hellaciously heavy wood and steel reel mower when I was 9 and I was able to push our new gasoline-powered mower all [...]
Continue reading...Company Boss: TruGreen ‘Didn’t Meet Expectations’
30. August 2011
In a surprisingly candid interview with his hometown newspaper, the Memphis Daily News, the CEO of ServiceMaster offered up yet another scathing commentary on the performance of TruGreen, the company formerly known as ChemLawn: http://www.memphisdailynews.com/news/2011/aug/26/ceo-shift-in-strategies-necessary-for-trugreen/. Saying the long-suffering division of ServiceMaster “didn’t meet expectations,” company CEO Hank Mullany took his own shot at the sales and service [...]
Continue reading...In the Wake of Irene: Assess & Overseed
29. August 2011
More than a few SafeLawns followers and media members have called and emailed today about what to do with lawns after such a huge deluge of water along the East Coast. And a few other friends from Texas emailed to say, “Send the rain this way!” The good news is that lawns are remarkably resilient. If [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Lawn ‘Care’
26. August 2011
By Jane Wingate The people in my town are well educated—claiming, among them, enough fancy college degrees to have kept a small university afloat. In pursuit of the healthy, sensible life, they engage in all forms of aerobic exercise, monitor their cholesterol levels and their daily fiber intake, serving wholesome raw-vegetable platters at every party, scorning [...]
Continue reading...Our Organic Lawn Trials: Month 13
23. August 2011
Anyone feel the earthquake today? Wow! It was my first earthquake experience in my 50-plus years and, for 30 seconds or so, the world literally seemed to be twisting and turning. I’m guessing it will be one of those “do-you-remember-where-you-were-when” moments. I happened to be at Glenstone, the modern art museum in Potomac, Md., where the [...]
Continue reading...A Man the U.S. Should Have Known Better
22. August 2011
Cancer Claims Canadian Leader at 61 SafeLawns and the environmental community lost an amazing ally this morning when Jack Layton, the leader of the New Democratic Party in Canada, passed away at 61 after a swift battle with cancer. A ferocious advocate for seniors, children and his nation, Layton struck us as someone who made environmental advocacy [...]
Continue reading...Persistent Pesticides Appear to be One Cause of Diabetes
20. August 2011
While a study out of Sweden earlier this year reported a link between Type II Diabetes in the elderly and persistent organic pollutants, a more recent study out of Finland appears to have found that POPs cause Type II Diabetes in some people. According to an article published by CBS News, Finn researchers found that [...]
Continue reading...Another Kissing Bandit Strikes
19. August 2011
We never know when they’re going to strike next, but another one arrived today — adding to the growing legion of Kissing Bandits who protest their neighbors’ use of toxic lawn chemicals wearing nothing more than our “Kiss My Grass” T-shirts.
Continue reading...Weekly Video Tip: Fighting Lawn Grubs that Become Beetles
19. August 2011
A few weeks ago we blogged about a new product, Azasol, available for the fight against lawn grubs and other insects: http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2011/06/fight-japanese-beetles-and-lawn-grubs-with-new-neem-formulation/. In this week’s video tip for NBC, we demonstrate how to use the product: http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=168995.
Continue reading...Who Will EPA Believe About Atrazine?
18. August 2011
As the country awaits the results of the Environmental Protection Agency’s second review of atrazine since 2003, its manufacturer- Syngenta- is taking advantage of this feet-dragging process, funding research that exonerates the popular herbicide and submitting it to the EPA. According to Mother Jones Food and Ag blogger, Tom Philpott, the case against atrazine [...]
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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31. August 2011
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