Child Safe Playing Fields Act Takes A Step Closer to Reality in New Jersey
A legislative committee in New Jersey has approved legislation that would allow the state to join New York and Connecticut with laws that would protect schoolchildren from pesticide exposures. If approved by the entire legislature, the law would ban products like Roundup and weed ‘n feed from school grounds. Here’s the story: http://njtoday.net/2011/12/15/bill-to-protect-school-children-from-pesticide-exposure-advanced-by-assembly-committee/.
Continue reading...Report: Genetically Modified Food Crops an Utter Failure
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Institute of Science in Society published this concise report detailing the myriad evidence that overwhelmingly concludes that corn crops bio-engineered to contain Bt have been a complete failure: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_crops_failures_and_hazards.php
Continue reading...Dr. Huber Lays it All Out: Roundup is Killing Us
Monday, December 12, 2011
Lips quivered on ashen faces. Hair stood on forearms. Heads shook and, in some cases, tears formed. The forum, at the Acres USA conference in Columbus, Ohio, last Friday, lasted two and a half hours. For 150 minutes, Dr. Don Huber dispassionately laid out fact after fact, more research than was possible to digest, with [...]
Continue reading...The Cover Art is In: Here’s the Next Book
Monday, December 5, 2011
Calendar Filling Fast for New Lawn Games for Life Tour & Book Signings Although our next book, co-authored with actress Victoria Rowell, is still at the printer and won’t be unveiled until the Philadelphia Flower Show and numerous other venues in March, the official cover was released by the publisher today. Titled Tag, Toss & Run, [...]
Continue reading...EPA’s New Head of Pesticide Approval Raises Concerns
Monday, December 5, 2011
Long-time chemical industry shill Jim Jones has been named acting head of the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), which has the responsibility for regulation of pesticides. He replaces Steve Owens, the current OCSPP director, who announced he will leave the position at year end. Jones, who has been at the EPA for [...]
Continue reading...Pesticides on Trial: The Video Testimony
Monday, December 5, 2011
As reported here last month, the world’s six largest manufacturers of pesticides are being put on trial for their crimes against humanity. And while the proceedings are largely symbolic, they are providing a valuable forum for folks impacted by the toxicity: http://www.grist.org/industrial-agriculture/2011-11-30-pesticide-on-trial
Continue reading...Wisconsin Woman Charged With Having an Ugly Lawn
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Happy Holidays . . . Louise Quigley has the seventh day of her Advent calendar marked for a not-so-warm celebration. She’s headed to court to defend her right to grow native plants on what some in the neighborhood think should be a traditionally mown lawn. While she claims that in the past 20 years numerous people [...]
Continue reading...Report: Widely Used Weed Killer Spurs Reproductive Problems
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
An international team of 22 researchers released a report yesterday that reiterated the overwhelming evidence that a commonly used synthetic chemical weed killer causes birth defects and other problems related to reproduction in many forms of life including mammals. Here is the link: http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/195601/herbicide_spurs_reproductive_problems_in_many_animals:_research.html
Continue reading...Time to Plant Grass Seed . . . in the South
Monday, November 28, 2011
While those of us in the North are primarily concerned with collecting those last few leaves from the lawn to avoid winterkill next spring, many folks in the South are actually preparing to plant. When December arrives, the cooler temperatures turn many Southern lawns brown — which is the natural dormant state. To combat that appearance, [...]
Continue reading...Research Indicates Weed Killer Has Unintended Consequences
Monday, November 28, 2011
Purdue University professors Angus Murphy and Wendy Peer, partnering with scientists at the Institute of Experimental Botany at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, have revealed the mechanism by which the popular weed killer 2,4-D also harms grass plants, in addition to killing the surrounding weeds. Since the mid 1940s, 2,4-D’s claim to fame [...]
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