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Book Excerpt: Here’s The History of Clover’s Demise as a Lawn Plant
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 [...]
Continue reading...More Research Points to Same Bee Conclusion
28. January 2011
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/
Continue reading...80 Percent of Canadians Protected by Pesticide Laws
25. January 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Poisoned by Pesticides? Here’s Help
22. January 2011
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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading...Join 700,000 in Signing Bee Petition
11. January 2011
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
Continue reading...Maine Town Keeps Lawn Pesticide Issue In the News in December
11. December 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Maine Pesticide Summit: Register Here to Reserve Your Space
15. November 2010
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
Continue reading...Pesticide Industry’s Propaganda Machine Continues to Target Children
9. November 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...New Hampshire Anti-Pesticide Sponsor Re-Elected
3. November 2010
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 [...]
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
- Former Chemical Applicator: 'I Am Literally Ashamed of Myself for Being Part of It'
- Researcher: Roundup May Be Causing Miscarriages in Cattle, Humans
- Groundcover Wednesday: Lemon Thyme
- Sometimes, You Just Have to Mow . . .
- Government Agency: We Must Reduce Toxics
- Amidst Wildlife Federation Firestorm, Scotts Miracle Gro Fined $4.5 Million for Toxic Bird Seed, Falsifying Records
- Corn Gluten Meal as Weed Control?: 20 Years Later, the Jury is Still Out
- Ken Mitchell: This is all great, but what can we do about the on...
- Mary Allen: Yeah for ethics! Not everyone is a whore for the ...
- Paul Tukey: Beverly, Send me an email at Paul@SafeLawns.org an...
- Beverly Herran: My partner and i observed your content has a copyr...
- Dianne Laheurte: Congratulations to you and Safelawns, Paul, for sp...
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