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Earth Day’s Newest Sponsor? . . . ChemLawn
Jim Bartasavich of It’s Only Natural Organic Landscaping, Lawncare & Gardening brought this press release to our attention today: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/trugreen/42463/. Apparently ChemLawn, which now calls itself TruGreen, is the exclusive U.S. organic and sustainable lawn and landscape care sponsor of Earth Day Network. First, Major League Baseball decided to make money from Scotts to re-ignite the [...]
Continue reading...Just One Week to Saskachewan Premieres
9. March 2010
Only a couple of hours from the Texas premiere of A Chemical Reaction as I sit here, I’ve just finished a round of preparations for my upcoming trip to Saskachewan, a western province of Canada. The film will play in Saskatoon next Tuesday, March 16, and in Regina on Wednesday, March 17. The details can [...]
Continue reading...Worm Composting: A Step-By-Step Guide
8. March 2010
The conclusion of our film screenings are always capped off with drawings for door prizes. A consistent favorite is the gift certificate from Gardeners Supply, the Vermont company with loads of options for gardening tools and supplies, as well as other household items. At Sunday’s screening in Hartford, audible shrieks of delight could be heard from [...]
Continue reading...From Hartford to Houston and On . . .
7. March 2010
The North American Spring Tour of A Chemical Reaction officially kicks into high gear this week. Fresh off a standing ovation at Hartford’s Cinestudio on the Trinity College campus today, I’ll be in Houston on Monday and Tuesday, back in Maine for the annual Portland Flower Show on Wednesday, in Ottawa for the Ontario premiere [...]
Continue reading...Big League Block: Bunning Gives More Time to Senate Debate About Ag Nominee
5. March 2010
Back in October we blogged about a controversial nomination by the Obama administration and SafeLawns endorsed an open letter from more than 100 groups demanding the nomination be overturned: http://www.safelawns.org/blog/index.php/2009/10/obama-nominates-controversial-agriculture-diplomat/. Despite those efforts, the nomination appeared headed for an easy passage — until Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning spoke up yesterday. I haven’t been a big [...]
Continue reading...Get . . . er . . . Stop the Drift: Tweet About Pesticides
4. March 2010
I got a kick out of this blog today. Seems that Twitter is nearing a milestone that may garner a lot of media attention: the 10 billionth Tweet. This blogger has a good idea: http://unearthed.earthjustice.org/blog/2010-march/be-10-billionth-person-tweet-about-pesticides
Continue reading...High Irony: Afghan War Seen as Boon to Organics
19. February 2010
The calls and emails, at first, were no more than a trickle. First Greece. And a few days later Hungary. Soon, contacts from several nations all across Eastern Europe had made their way to SafeLawns.org all asking for the same recommendation: “What can we use to replace our ammonium nitrate fertilizer?” This phenomenon began near the [...]
Continue reading...Senate Hears Testimony About Pesticide Toxicity
5. February 2010
Our friends at the Pesticide Action Network North America posts bulletins to its members known as Panups. Two of the items in the Panups today included items from the SafeLawns.org blog: www.panna.org/resources/panups/panup_20100205, the Canadian lawsuits and the news of next week’s showdown in New Hampshire, plus an additional item about how the U.S. Senate heard [...]
Continue reading...March Movie News
4. February 2010
We received word this morning that our film, A Chemical Reaction, has been accepted to the Delray Beach Film Festival on March 27. No firm time yet. Other dates in March: Hartford, March 7 Houston, March 8-9 Ottawa, March 11 New Jersey, March 13 Saskatoon, March 16 Chicago, March 19-20 Washington, DC, March 26 More details will follow in the day and weeks ahead.
Continue reading...New Hampshire: The Next Pesticide Battleground
2. February 2010
With a state motto of LIve Free or Die, perhaps it’s fitting that New Hampshire appears to be the looming pesticide battleground. On one side, local lobbyists are rallying all their allies — including the national groups such as SafeLawns — while the chemical industry is warming all of its constituents to stay on alert. The [...]
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