Major American Lawn & Landscape Conference Set for Chicago in March
One of the nation’s best educational opportunities for professionals and homeowners is coming to the Midwest in late March. Titled the “Lawn & Landscape Summit: Chicago 2012,” the event will bring together two leading golf course superintendents, along with a renowned arborist and several of the most progressive landscape products companies for two days of [...]
Continue reading...Bee Evidence Builds . . . The Government Sleeps . . . And YOU Need to Take Action
Monday, January 16, 2012
Will you help? It’s been five years since SafeLawns blew the whistle on the fact that a group of pesticides was responsible for the sudden die-off of bees known as colony collapse disorder. We were threatened with lawsuits and endured a smear campaign, but ultimately our bee story has been picked up by thousands of [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: ‘I Gave You This Knowledge . . . And What Did You Do With It?’
Thursday, January 12, 2012
We received this personal note recently. We receive dozens of notes weekly that arrive like little pep pills to carry us through the days, but this one reached out and grabbed us even more than usual — maybe because it reminded us of a poem we have cited here before by Drew Dellinger titled Hieroglyphic [...]
Continue reading...NOFA Organic Lawn Certification Courses Set for Northeast
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
One of the main questions we get here at the SafeLawns Foundation concerns training for professionals. While we offer one-on-one consulting for businesses and municipalities in the U.S. and Canada, there’s no question that best training in a classroom setting in North America comes from the Northeast Organic Farming Association’s accredited Organic Land Care Program [...]
Continue reading...All Eyes on New Jersey School Pesticide Bill
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Our colleagues in New Jersey are mobilizing anxiously in anticipation of next week’s critical vote in the state legislature that could remove toxic pesticides from school grounds and day care centers. Suzanne Aptmann of the Northern New Jersey SafeYards Alliance did a great job of getting the issue covered in her local newspaper: http://westdeptford.patch.com/articles/legislature-could-move-on-school-pesticide-ban-next-week. Safe landscape [...]
Continue reading...SafeLawns to Open 2012 Tour in Sacramento
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The SafeLawns Foundation announced today it will open its 2012 international tour in California at the EcoLandscape 2012 conference in Woodland, just outside of Sacramento. The conference, which will focus on economically and environmentally sustainable business practices in the green industry, will be keynoted by SafeLawns founder Paul Tukey, as well as Jeff Lowenfels of [...]
Continue reading...New Jersey Child Safe Playing Fields Law Up for Vote on Jan. 9
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
With 44 co-sponsors in the New Jersey legislature hopes are high for the passage of the Childs Safe Playing Fields law: http://montclair.patch.com/articles/no-more-exposure-to-lawn-pesticides-for-children-at-school
Continue reading...Living in America . . . With Pesticides Everywhere
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
This is an amazing article from the Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201201/parkinsons-pesticides.aspx
Continue reading...Miracle Gro Sales Continue to Plummet
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Are consumers waking up to the general wastefulness and toxicity of the chemical lawn care industry? Based on the ongoing decline in the finances of the world’s largest purveyor of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides — coupled with the increase in the sales of organic products — all indications point to a major market shift. Scotts [...]
Continue reading...National Pesticide Forum Coming to Yale in 2012
Friday, December 16, 2011
Beyond Pesticides announed that the 30th annual National Pesticide Forum will be held at Yale University in New Haven, Ct., on March 30-31, 2012. Titled “Healthy Communities: Green solutions for safe environments,” the forum will be co-sponsored by numerous organizations including Environment & Human Health Inc., and The Watershed Alliance at the Yale University School of [...]
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