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Guest Blog: Lawn ‘Care’
By Jane Wingate The people in my town are well educated—claiming, among them, enough fancy college degrees to have kept a small university afloat. In pursuit of the healthy, sensible life, they engage in all forms of aerobic exercise, monitor their cholesterol levels and their daily fiber intake, serving wholesome raw-vegetable platters at every party, scorning [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: If G-M Foods are Safe, Why Doesn’t Biotech Industry Allow Them to be Labeled?
12. May 2011
by Donna Morin Miller On October 1, South Africa will become the latest country to require that genetically-modified foods be labeled. I am envious. No, I’m angry. Genetically-modified foods have been in the U.S. food system for nearly 30 years now. There have never been any long-term studies done to prove their safety, despite claims by [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Investigation into Young Woman’s Death Points to Popular Insecticide Used on American Farms
11. May 2011
By Donna Morin Miller Twenty-three-year old Sarah Carter, of New Zealand, was enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime kind of holiday with two girlfriends. Tragically, she never made it back home. All three young women were guests in a Chiang Mai hotel in Thailand. They awoke the morning after their stay with sore stomachs and soon began to vomit. [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: On Earth Day . . . To Lawn, or Not to Lawn?
22. April 2011
Or Maybe That’s Not the Question By Donna Morin Miller SEEMS LIKE EVERY TIME I READ about organic lawn care, I see a comment from the purist sector that argues how lawns are wrong and wasteful. They require inordinate amounts of water to maintain and provide little environmental benefit. I agree. Lawns are resource-intensive, not only in terms [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: What’s Gotten Into Us, a Review
19. April 2011
Author McKay Jenkins has been a friend to SafeLawns ever since he agreed to appear in the film, A Chemical Reaction, to summarize America’s obsession with lawns. We were thrilled and honored when Jenkins and his publisher, Random House, included a long discussion of the SafeLawns movement in his new book, What’s Gotten Into Us, [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: A Mom’s Guide to Pesticide Activism
1. March 2011
Kim Barletta of Freeport, Maine, is a home schooler and avid outdoor adventurer. RESPECTFUL PRODDING CAN GO A LONG WAY TOWARD PESTICIDE REDUCTION Spring is on its way, and I wanted to write to you about pesticide applications at health care facilities (and any other public place where folks go and don’t want to be exposed [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Take Roundup Warnings Seriously
25. February 2011
NOTE: Since our publication of Col. Don Huber’s letter to the United States Department of Agriculture warning of the dire consequences of too much weed-killer known as Roundup in the soil, validation of his concerns has come from numerous sources. This note is from Jim Martindale, a consultant with North American Ag-Gro and President of [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Rethinking the American Lawn, Part III . . . Great Groundcovers
22. February 2011
This is the third installment of Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn, a four-part series by High Country Gardens Founder and Chief Horticulturist, David Salman. Salman also writes The Xeric Gardener. News Flash: Groundcovers Grow Where Grass Won’t Groundcovers like sweet woodruff form a weed-resistant canopy while speedily filling in shady and irregular plots. February 21, 2011 SANTA FE, N.M. [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn, Part I
9. February 2011
AS A PART OF OUR year-long campaign to reduce the impact of the American lawn, we’re launching a new guest blog series with our sponsoring partners at High Country Gardens in New Mexico. Rethinking the Traditional American Lawn is a four-part series by High Country Gardens Founder and Chief Horticulturist, David Salman. Salman also writes [...]
Continue reading...Guest Blog: Make Your Activism Personal
12. January 2011
Barbara Rubin, AKA, “the Armchair Activist, (http://armchairactivist.us) sent this along to share with the SafeLawns Foundation: Why have we made so little progress in pesticide activism during the past decade? We know profits are at the heart of this but that has always been the case. An additional impediment is that we are also a people [...]
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