This article by the local Houston, Texas, newspaper, cites some interesting lawn statistics and potential solutions: http://www.allvoices.com/s/event-4487369/aHR0cDovL2ZlZWRzLmNocm9uLmNvbS9+ci9ob3VzdG9uY2hyb25pY2xlL3RvcGhlYWRsaW5lcy9+My9uZm9SVV9PVEliQS82Njg1ODI5Lmh0bWw= ...

Check out the article this past Thursday in the Washington Post. ...

[caption id="attachment_511" align="alignnone" width="720" caption="In a scene from A Chemical Reaction, Paul Tukey interviews Dr. June Irwin, the woman who launched the anti-lawn pesticide movement in North America."][/caption]We are thrilled to announce three Florida screenings for our film A Chemical Reaction that will keep us hopping around the state for almost a full week of early November. ORLANDO — W ...

Thanks to Creative Loafing for this neat little plug. It puts our movie in good company: http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/2009/10/07/new-eco-documentary-a-chemical-reaction-the-story-of-a-true-green-revolution/ ...

Just as we met yesterday with several motivated stakeholders who would like to bring Canada's pesticide ban to their province, an article posted on the newswire that comes as no surprise: the green industry will fight to keep pesticides available in British Columbia. The industry's fight includes a call to sign an on-line petition. But we're going to fight back with screenings of our movie, A Chemical React ...

At SafeLawns.org, we've been warning folks about the connection between pesticides and bee decline for three years, but don't just listen to us: http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/v-print/story/2259571.html ...

Ernest Hemingway, it turns out, had a knack for finding the best places in America. The author was among the first A-list celebrities to discover a magical area of Idaho known as Sun Valley. I hadn't been there until this past weekend when the Sawtooth Botanical Garden invited me to talk about organic landscape principles, and also to screen the film A Chemical Reaction. With only five inches of annual rain ...

Here's an article that appeared today in a New York newspaper. Voices like this one are the kinds of things that spur public dialogue. By ISABEL VINCENT, The New York Post Central Park may be hazardous to your health. So says a personal trainer and environmental activist who’s enlisting some of his clients to pressure the Central Park Conservancy to stop using pesticides. “One of the most insidious things a ...

Given the disdain that most people feel for raking, the power equipment industry has offered up a vast array of options that, at least ostensibly, are supposed to make the task easier. I can tell you from experience that most blowers and suction systems won’t save you a minute — and that all of them are worse for the planet, for your wallet and waistline. Having said that, here are some options to consider ...

Euphoric phone calls and emails poured out of Hudson, Quebec, this past week with word that Michael Elliott — the same man who shepherded North America's first anti-pesticide bylaw all the way to the Supreme Court — was named mayor again after 16 years in retirement from town politics. Elliott, who is a key figure in the documentary film, A Chemical Reaction, had hinted to us that he was considering running ...