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Book Excerpt: Here’s The History of Clover’s Demise as a Lawn Plant

17. March 2011

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In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, I always like to espouse the virtues of clover, once considered the greatest lawn plant of all because it’s low-growing, evergreen, drought tolerant and manufactures its own fertilizer by storing atmospheric nitrogen on its roots (see photo). I also highly recommend watching this video, which features my friend and [...]

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More Research Points to Same Bee Conclusion

28. January 2011

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Earlier this week we reported on USDA research that further implicated synthetic nicotine pesticides in the widespread bee deaths that have been categorized as Colony Collapse Disorder. A report out of a major California university today reached the same conclusion: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jan/28/another-pesticide-link-vanishing-honeybees/

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80 Percent of Canadians Protected by Pesticide Laws

25. January 2011

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U.S. Lags Far Behind in Pesticide Protection Researchers Propose GMOs for 2,4-D Resistant Plants In May of this year 20 years will have passed since Hudson, Quebec, became the first community in North America to ban synthetic lawn and garden pesticides. With the passage of a bylaw banning certain lawn and garden pesticides in the town of [...]

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Poisoned by Pesticides? Here’s Help

22. January 2011

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I was contacted this weekend by a Missouri mother whose 22-year-old son is suffering with Stage 4 lymphoma at the Mayo Clinic. She said the doctors showed her a map of lymphoma distribution in the United States, which showed a heavy concentration of the disease in Minnesota, Iowa and Northern Missouri. Her son was immediately [...]

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Guest Blog: Make Your Activism Personal

12. January 2011

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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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Join 700,000 in Signing Bee Petition

11. January 2011

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Back on Dec. 29, we sent out a call to join us in signing a petition asking the U.S. to join a growing worldwide ban on the pesticides responsible for causing colony collapse disorder in bees. On this site, more than 700,000 folks have signed on! http://acelebrationofwomen.org/?p=39410

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Maine Town Keeps Lawn Pesticide Issue In the News in December

11. December 2010

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This article appeared Friday in the Scarborough Leader newspaper in Maine: http://blog.scarboroughleader.com/2010/12/10/pesticide-use-on-town-properties-in-question—dec-10-2010.aspx. One of the aspects of this that I find encouraging in this article is that the two landscape professionals quoted herein, Al Lappin Jr. and Jesse O’Brien, are two of my closest friends. We would go through the proverbial wall for each other [...]

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Maine Pesticide Summit: Register Here to Reserve Your Space

15. November 2010

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Space is limited at the Unitarian Church in Brunswick, Maine, for the highly anticipated Maine Pesticide Summit this Saturday presented by the Toxics Action Center. Click here to reserve your space: http://www.toxicsaction.org/mainepesticidesummit

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Pesticide Industry’s Propaganda Machine Continues to Target Children

9. November 2010

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As we reported here in March, the lawn pesticide industry’s leading lobby firm from Washington, D.C., has launched a propaganda campaign aimed directly at children. During 2010 a van stacked full of pro-pesticide paraphernalia made its way up the Eastern Seaboard, stopping at schools and other places children routinely congregate. The stated goal is to [...]

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New Hampshire Anti-Pesticide Sponsor Re-Elected

3. November 2010

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Rep. Suzanne Smith, who introduced the infamous pesticide study bill HB 1456 in 2010, was re-elected to her seat in the New Hampshire legislature on Tuesday. She has vowed to introduce legislation in the next session later this month that would reduce and/or ban the applications of pesticides to kill weeds around schools and daycare [...]

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