One of the main questions we get here at the SafeLawns Foundation concerns training for professionals. While we offer one-on-one consulting for businesses and municipalities in the U.S. and Canada, there's no question that best training in a classroom setting in North America comes from the Northeast Organic Farming Association's accredited Organic Land Care Program (NOFA OLC). The year's first classes begi ...

Our colleagues in New Jersey are mobilizing anxiously in anticipation of next week's critical vote in the state legislature that could remove toxic pesticides from school grounds and day care centers. Suzanne Aptmann of the Northern New Jersey SafeYards Alliance did a great job of getting the issue covered in her local newspaper: http://westdeptford.patch.com/articles/legislature-could-move-on-school-pestic ...

The SafeLawns Foundation announced today it will open its 2012 international tour in California at the EcoLandscape 2012 conference in Woodland, just outside of Sacramento. The conference, which will focus on economically and environmentally sustainable business practices in the green industry, will be keynoted by SafeLawns founder Paul Tukey, as well as Jeff Lowenfels of Anchorage, Alaska, author of Teemin ...

With 44 co-sponsors in the New Jersey legislature hopes are high for the passage of the Childs Safe Playing Fields law: http://montclair.patch.com/articles/no-more-exposure-to-lawn-pesticides-for-children-at-school ...

This is an amazing article from the Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201201/parkinsons-pesticides.aspx ...

Are consumers waking up to the general wastefulness and toxicity of the chemical lawn care industry? Based on the ongoing decline in the finances of the world's largest purveyor of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides — coupled with the increase in the sales of organic products — all indications point to a major market shift. Scotts Miracle-Gro announced earlier this week that it will likely lose $70 to $75 ...

Beyond Pesticides announed that the 30th annual National Pesticide Forum will be held at Yale University in New Haven, Ct., on March 30-31, 2012. Titled "Healthy Communities: Green solutions for safe environments," the forum will be co-sponsored by numerous organizations including Environment & Human Health Inc., and The Watershed Alliance at the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. ...

A legislative committee in New Jersey has approved legislation that would allow the state to join New York and Connecticut with laws that would protect schoolchildren from pesticide exposures. If approved by the entire legislature, the law would ban products like Roundup and weed 'n feed from school grounds. Here's the story: http://njtoday.net/2011/12/15/bill-to-protect-school-children-from-pesticide-expos ...

The Institute of Science in Society published this concise report detailing the myriad evidence that overwhelmingly concludes that corn crops bio-engineered to contain Bt have been a complete failure: http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_crops_failures_and_hazards.php ...

Lips quivered on ashen faces. Hair stood on forearms. Heads shook and, in some cases, tears formed. The forum, at the Acres USA conference in Columbus, Ohio, last Friday, lasted two and a half hours. For 150 minutes, Dr. Don Huber dispassionately laid out fact after fact, more research than was possible to digest, with almost surgical precision that led to the same unavoidable conclusion: "Roundup is the mo ...