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!<br>Thanks!<br>Julianne<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Gabriella Moller</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gabriella@seanet.com">gabriella@seanet.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:41 PM<br>
Subject: safe lawns<br><br><br>
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Greetings!<br>
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. <br>
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I am a founding member of COOL (the Coalition of Organic Landscape
Professionals) and together with SafeLawns.org we are presenting the
<i>Northwest Lawn and Garden Pesticide Summit </i>on Saturday, June
4, 2011 from 9am-2:30pm at University Unitarian Church, 6556 - 35th
Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115. <br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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Please visit our website:<a href="http://www.organiclandscapers.org/pesticide-summit-2011.html" target="_blank">http://www.organiclandscapers.org/pesticide-summit-2011.html</a> for
more details about the event.<br>
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The registration fee for the event is $15 (including lunch) and you
can register at <a href="https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/167686" target="_blank">https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/167686</a><br>
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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. <br>
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Thank you!<br><font color="#888888">
Gabriella Moller<br>
<a href="tel:%28206%29%20782-3238" value="+12067823238" target="_blank">(206) 782-3238</a>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>-- <br>Thomas Jefferson said he didn’t think we could have democracy unless at 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.<br>
- Eliot Coleman,<br>Author, Farmer, Human Being<br><br>“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.<br>
<br>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.<br>- Barry Lopez, in Crow and Weasel<br><br>Let only laughter scar your face.<br>
Rwandan saying<br><br>" 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.”<br>
- Patty Karlovitz<br>Co-Publisher and Managing Editor<br>Local Flavor Magazine<br>Santa Fe, New Mexico<br>