Archive | February, 2012
New Book Celebrates Outdoor Childhood Games
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TAG, TOSS & RUN: 40 CLASSIC LAWN GAMES PROMO VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cac4kCAMm0w As children growing up on farms in rural Maine, Victoria Rowell and Paul Tukey say there were unaware of a social transformation that began in 1972 with the launch of the world’s first video game known as Pong. Forty years later the co-authors are [...]
Continue reading...Doctor: The Best Treatment for Pesticide Related Illnesses is Avoidance of the Toxins
28. February 2012
Among the presenters on Monday, Feb. 27, at a District of Columbia hearing on behalf of the Pesticide Education and Control Amendment Act of 2012, Dr. Alan Vinitsky offered some of the more compelling information to the committee that evaluating the legislation: INTRODUCTION I am a Board Certified Pediatrician and Internist, practicing in Montgomery County for 33 [...]
Continue reading...DC Considers Making Pesticide History
27. February 2012
Bill Would Place Nation’s Capitol at Forefront of Pesticide Reduction WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interviewing witnesses with the precision of a prosecutorial judge, District of Columbia councilwoman Mary Cheh set the stage for an American pesticide showdown Monday afternoon. In a remarkable session on behalf of the DC Committee on the Environment, Public Works and Transportation the [...]
Continue reading...NRDC Renews Call to Ban Most Common Lawn Weed Killer
25. February 2012
Center for Food Safety Asks for Public Comment to Fight Increased Use of 2,4-D What would you think of a product that had these types of warnings on the label: “EMERGENCY OVERVIEW: WARNING-POISON . . . Keep out of reach of children . . . Avoid contact with skin, eyes and clothing . . . Do [...]
Continue reading...Trying to Ban Pesticides? Get Your Strategy Correct First
23. February 2012
It’s been a full generation now, 21 years this May, since the town of Hudson, Quebec, became the first community in North America to ban pesticides — weed killers, insect killers and fungicides used for aesthetic purposes. And it’s amazing that now, all these years later, the same exact arguments that preceded the Hudson prohibition [...]
Continue reading...Scotts Lawn Service Fined $160,000 for Intentionally Polluting Water
23. February 2012
Coming just a month after Scotts Miracle Gro pleaded guilty in federal court to falsifying documents and selling bird seed tainted with pesticide, a the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined a Pennsylvania branch of Scotts Lawn Service $160,000 for dumping its waste water directly into a stream. In June of 2010 a Scotts [...]
Continue reading...Steingraber’s New Book Reissues Call for Protection from Pesticides
21. February 2012
As a modern-day Rachel Carson, she is the titular queen of the environmental movement in the United States today. As a mom, she faces many of the same challenges that all of us encounter in an insanely busy world. In one month, Dr. Sandra Steingraber will keynote the 30th annual convention of Beyond Pesticides in [...]
Continue reading...NEW STUDY: Genetically Modified Corn Toxic to Humans
20. February 2012
A study published last week in the peer-reviewed Journal of Applied Toxicology revealed that genetically modified corn containing the genes for Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) is toxic to humans. The study further revealed that the herbicide known as Roundup is toxic to humans, even at small exposures. The vast majority of the corn grown in the [...]
Continue reading...Connecticut’s Historic Pesticide Legislation Threatened by IPM Bill
18. February 2012
Anti-Pesticide Activists Ask for Support at Feb. 22 Hearing The state that made pesticide history in 2005 may roll back its protection of children if a new bill supported by the chemical industry is successful. Bill 5155 — “AN ACT MODIFYING THE BAN ON PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS ON SCHOOL GROUNDS” — is sending shock waves through the [...]
Continue reading...‘Organic-Based’ Products Are Rarely Organic
17. February 2012
NOTE: This is an update of a position paper I first published in 2007. As I’ve traveled around the nation on our organization SafeLawns.org, I’ve sensed a tremendous amount of confusion about organic products. “What’s really organic, and what isn’t?” people ask. Just yesterday, on the phone with Consumers Digest magazine, a reporter was asking [...]
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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