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How to buy organic nontoxic flowers
Daily Green -
Feb 11, 2009
The organic certification labels you can trust ? and the one you can't.
Topics:
Pesticides
Environment
EPA Approves Methyl Iodide: Ignores Top Scientists? Concerns about Carcinogenic Pesticide
Pesticide Action Network -
Oct 17, 2007
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it has approved methyl iodide (iodomethane) for use as a fumigant pesticide for preparing soil for crop production.
Topics:
Pesticides
Bitter Harvest In Sperryville
Washington Post -
Jul 15, 2007
For farmer Rachel Bynum and her 2-year-old son, Nicholas, the afternoon of June 2 started as an idyllic occasion. For the first time, mother and child harvested vegetables together at the family's Waterpenny Farm in Sperryville, Va. Bynum and her husband, Eric Plaksin, both 33, sell the pesticide-free produce from their 10 acres of fields at farmers markets, through a CSA program and right from the barn.
Topics:
Pesticides
CSA
Environment
Bee killers? Pesticides are a probable cause
Associated Press -
Jun 16, 2007
New pathogen could be another culprit; experts struggle to solve case
Topics:
Pesticides
Bees
Rachel Carson's alarm still echoes
The Oregonian -
May 28, 2007
T oday marks Rachel Carson's 100th birthday. She has been dead for more than 40 years, but the environmental movement she gave life to with her seminal book "Silent Spring" has evolved from the grass-roots movement to a politically expedient force embraced by mainstream Americans.
Topics:
Pesticides
Requiem for the Honeybee
SANET -
Apr 24, 2007
Neoniccotinoid insecticides used in seed dressing may be responsible for the collapse of honeybee colonies.
Topics:
Pesticides
Bees
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