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National Poison Prevention Week: 8 Tips to Stay Safe on the Lawn

In recognition of National Poison Prevention Week beginning Sunday, March 18, the SafeLawns Foundation is joining the Environmental Protection Agency and numerous other agencies in urging parents to take extra steps around their homes to reduce the more than 150,000 calls to poison centers involving pesticides and disinfectants. In just the past year, America’s 57 [...]

The Augusta Syndrome: 45 Years Later, Is Golf the Environment’s Worst Nightmare?

Few industries around the world can point to a single weekend as the date of their origin. Sure, lawn care has been around ever since kings ordered peasants to scythe their meadows for comfortable strolling, but in terms of the modern lawn care industry it really all began during the second weekend of April of [...]

Nation’s Leading Landscape Experts To Convene in Chicago

Professionals and Homeowners Invited to 2-Day Symposium They are the major issues facing the lawn and garden industry on our continent today: How do you deal with fertilizer runoff from lawns? How can you safely save your trees in the face of exotic invasive insects? How can golf courses deliver championship conditions and still be environmentally [...]

Consider Low Mow Grasses This Spring

COMPANIES MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE Pearls Premium, www.pearlspremium.com ECO-LAWN, www.wildflowerfarm.com High County Gardens, www.highcountrygardens.com With the calendar barreling toward spring, I’m like many people this time of year . . . dreaming about how to make my lawn and garden better. I waited too long last fall on a big seeding project, so I’ll be out there again as [...]

Girl, 8, Steals the Lawn Games Show in Philly

On the compact platform meant for expert potting and pruning demonstrations at the world’s largest indoor botanical exhibition, an 8-year-old wasn’t about to give up center stage Sunday at the Philadelphia International Flower Show. Shortly after authors Paul Tukey and Victoria Rowell took the stage to introduce their book, Tag, Toss & Run, that went [...]

Final Preparation: College To Send Students Outdoors to Play

BOSTON, MASS. — On April 17, one of the last full days of classes for the spring semester at Boston’s Northeastern University, administrators have come up with an old-fashioned way to help students decompress before final exams. Paul Tukey, author of Tag, Toss & Run: 40 Classic Lawn Games and founder of the Lawn Games for [...]

National Pesticide Forum Set to Convene in New Haven, Ct.

NOTE: SafeLawns members receive $10 off registration to this conference FROM BEYOND PESTICIDES With Members of Congress attempting to gut pesticide protections from the Clean Water Act and state legislators threatening to repeal Connecticut’s historic pesticide ban on school grounds, environmentalists from the Northeast and beyond are joining with researchers, authors, beekeepers, organic business leaders, elected officials, [...]

Study Suggests Toxic Exposure Impacts Our Progeny

Here is a new study that suggests the environmental toxins we inhale, touch or ingest have the potential to harm not only our children, but also our grandkids, great great great grandkids: http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/03/02/effects.environmental.toxicants.reach.down.through.generations

Lawn Games For Life Debut Rousing at Philadelphia Flower Show

Fight is on to Save Connecticut’s Landmark Pesticide Bill

A group of community and health advocates and legislators will gather this Thursday, March 8, at 1 p.m. to draw attention to a bill in the state legislature that would revoke Connecticut’s 2005 law that restricts the applications of pesticides on school grounds. “Connecticut’s landmark law banning the use of toxic pesticides on elementary and middle [...]