[UrbanCropCircle] Fwd: safe lawns

[Julianne Jaz]

As we're (finally!) coming into spring and prime time for pesticide usage,
this conference couldn't be more timely.  Please attend if you can, and
otherwise, please share widely!
Thanks!
Julianne

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From: Gabriella Moller <gabriella at seanet.com>
Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Subject: safe lawns


 Greetings!
I apologize for the impersonal nature of this message, but I want to let you
know about an event I am helping to organize that I hope you will be
interested in attending.  If you are able I would be very grateful if you
would help me publicize the event by sharing this message with your friends
and colleagues.

I am a founding member of COOL (the Coalition of Organic Landscape
Professionals) and together with SafeLawns.org we are presenting the *Northwest
Lawn and Garden Pesticide Summit *on Saturday, June 4, 2011 from 9am-2:30pm
at University Unitarian Church, 6556 - 35th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115.

We are holding this event with the dual purpose of educating the public
about the health hazards of pesticides - especially as they affect children
- and building a coalition of activists who are interested in addressing
policy and legislation to reduce the cosmetic use of pesticides.

Because children are particularly vulnerable to the effects of pesticides
used on lawns and playfields, our primary focus will be on children's health
and on lawn and garden pesticides — weed killers, insect killers and
fungicides — used around homes, public parks and school grounds.  We will
specifically examine New York State’s Child Safe Playing Fields Act, which
became law in 2010 and bans the use of chemical pesticides on school playing
fields and day care playgrounds.

Please visit our website:
http://www.organiclandscapers.org/pesticide-summit-2011.html for more
details about the event.

The registration fee for the event is $15 (including lunch) and you can
register at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/167686

I hope you will be interested in attending and I appreciate your support!
Please let me know if you have any questions, or if you need more
information.

Thank you!
Gabriella Moller
(206) 782-3238



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least 20% of the population was self-supporting on small farms so they were
independent enough to be able to tell an oppressive government to stuff it.
It is very difficult to control people who can create products without
purchasing inputs from the system, who can market their products directly
thus avoiding the involvement of mercenary middlemen, who can butcher
animals and preserve foods without reliance on industrial conglomerates, and
who can’t be bullied because they can feed their own faces.
- Eliot Coleman,
Author, Farmer, Human Being

“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I
hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle
that,” the great American inventor Thomas Edison said in 1931.

If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where
they are needed. Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay
alive.
- Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel

Let only laughter scar your face.
Rwandan saying

" As you turn the earth to plant your own backyard garden, plant an extra
row for the hungry.  When it is time to harvest your labor of love, drop
your donation at the emergency food pantry or soup kitchen in your
community.  In this way, even the neediest among us will know that the earth
has not forgotten their name.”
- Patty Karlovitz
Co-Publisher and Managing Editor
Local Flavor Magazine
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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