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From 1967 to Now: Another Town Poised to Take Action
Did you know the lawn chemical industry can be traced to the second weekend of April of 1967? That’s the weekend the “Augusta Syndrome” was born, causing grown men across the U.S. to covet perfectly manicured green lawns of their own. The picture, at left, shows a young Jack Nicklaus fitting Gay Brewer with his [...]
Continue reading...School Pesticide Debate Heats Up in the Denver Summer
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
The same debate we’ve seen unfold in at least a half dozen other states in the past two years is grabbing headlines in Colorado. On one side a group of concerned parents thinks lawn pesticides are dangerous; on the other, a group of lawn care professionals who claim the products are safe when used as [...]
Continue reading...The Most Important Day in Pesticide History? That Would be June 28
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Today Marks 10th Anniversary of Supreme Court Decision Search on-line on one of those this-day-in-history lists and you won’t find my nomination for the MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT’S EVER HAPPENED on the 179th day of the year (not counting leap years). All sorts of other important stuff shares a June 28 anniversary. I didn’t know, for [...]
Continue reading...U.S. Supreme Court Denies Petition to Reconsider Ban of Deadly Pesticide
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
In another example of how corporate bottom line trumps public health concern, the FMC Corporation- the leading manufacturer of carbofuran- and a group of powerful agribusiness lobbyists including the National Corn Growers Association, challenged, yet again, the ban on the pesticide, despite its reputation for being a deadly poison. In 2006, the EPA announced that all [...]
Continue reading...El Salvador Rejects Monsanto and Embraces Food Sovereignty
Friday, May 27, 2011
Like the towns of Sedgwick, Penobscot, and Blue Hill, in Maine, the country of El Salvador has now declared “food sovereignty” from the hegemony of international market dictates, particularly those of agricultural giants like Monsanto. President Mauricio Funes is inaugurating a new plan aimed at reactivating the country’s historically ignored rural economy and reversing El Salvador’s [...]
Continue reading...Report Rates Strength of Canadian Pesticide Bans
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Although approximately 80 percent of Canadians now live under the protection of some sort of restriction on weed killers and other pesticides, not all of the laws and ordinances are created equally. Today the David Suzuki Foundation issued a report ranking the strength of the bans in the six different provinces that have regulated these [...]
Continue reading...Lower IQs Linked to Pesticide Exposure
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Although organophosphates, like malthion, have been banned for residential use by the EPA since 2001, they are still very present in conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables, and are often used to control pests in public places. They work by irreversibly blocking an enzyme that’s critical to nerve function, and can be absorbed through the lungs, skin, [...]
Continue reading...Pesticide Exposure in Utero Linked to Lower IQ
Thursday, April 21, 2011
This isn’t unexpected news . . . but three new studies grouped today reached the same conclusion: exposing pregnant mothers to pesticides lowers their children’s IQ: http://fbcheat.com/health/prenatal-pesticide-exposure-linked-with-lower-iq-reuters.html.
Continue reading...Guest Blog: What’s Gotten Into Us, a Review
Tuesday, April 19, 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...Government Considers Soil Drenching of Pesticides in Boston
Friday, April 15, 2011
Bee-Killing Pesticide Should Only Be Trunk Injected in Fight Against Asian Longhorn Beetle The SafeLawns Foundation has learned that the United States Department of Agriculture is considering drenching the pesticide known as imidacloprid — widely implicated in the phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder — across hundreds of acres of Greater Boston. We strongly, emphatically, denounce this [...]
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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