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The Cover Art is In: Here’s the Next Book
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...Wisconsin Woman Charged With Having an Ugly Lawn
1. December 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...California Town Bans Fake Lawns
23. November 2011
One of the few issues I can agree on with folks on both sides of the organic vs. synthetic chemical lawn debate is this: Artificial grass has no place in our society. Giant petroleum-based blankets that will never biodegrade in anyone’s lifetime, artificial lawns emit all sorts of toxins, reflect heat that increases the earth’s [...]
Continue reading...Canadian Judge Orders Review of Roundup’s Impact on Frogs
22. November 2011
Citing the precautionary principle invoked in the historic Supreme Court Hudson v. Spraytech and ChemLawn decision in 2001 — profiled in the documentary film, A Chemical Reaction — a Canadian federal justice has ordered a full review of the impact of the herbicide Roundup on frogs and other amphibians. Justice Michael A. Kelen, who has served [...]
Continue reading...ACT NOW: Senate Moves to Gut Clean Water Act
16. November 2011
Our friends at Beyond Pesticides are leading a national call to action to stop a bill that would gut the Clean Water Act of a key provision regarding the discharge of pesticides into open water. Here’s the background: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/7106/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6307
Continue reading...Another Week, Another Whirlwind Tour to Support Natural Lawn Care
14. November 2011
Stops Include Iowa, Wisconsin, California and Florida The coming week, even by our standards, will be feature a whirlwind tour that crisscrosses three corners of the nation and several points in between in the pursuit and promotion of natural lawn care. The plane leaves Providence later this morning for Fort Dodge, Iowa, the home of Calcium Products [...]
Continue reading...Keep the Organic in Organic
10. November 2011
Do you like knowing that your organic food was grown with the appropriate safety measures? Do you feel comforted knowing that the government takes real, tangible steps to ensure poisons are kept out of food labeled as “organic?” The National Organic Standards Board is considering numerous changes to these safeguards and is accepting public comments [...]
Continue reading...Get Your Lawn Questions Answered Live Wednesday
8. November 2011
The popular Internet radio program Ecoman and the Skeptic will air a 30-minute live interview with SafeLawns founder Paul Tukey on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 3 p.m. Eastern time. Hosted by professors Rob Fleming and Chris Pastore, the long-running show can be reached at 888-346-9141 and listened to live at http://www.voiceamerica.com/show/1463/ecoman-and-the-skeptic
Continue reading...Illinois Residents Take Weed Spray Issue Into Their Own Hands
1. November 2011
As reported here last month, a group of Illinois residents successfully fought a plan to spray local playing fields for weeds. To show they’re serious, those same folks are offering to pull the weeds by hand to satisfying the aesthetic expectations of the community at large: http://highlandpark.suntimes.com/news/8526419-418/park-board-rounds-up-volunteers-to-weed-fields.html.
Continue reading...The Compost Champs
24. October 2011
I had six cubic yards of compost delivered today that needed spreading across my lawn. Not to worry, I had plenty of help . . .
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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