• Loser of the day

    Updated: 2010-07-30 15:49:16
    This week in Germany, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) released the findings of a survey studying consumer knowledge about pesticides – the result – people don’t know much about pesticides. In the very same week ‘green’ activists Greenpeace Germany embarrassed themselves by publishing false claims about pesticide levels in food. A member of [...]

  • Lawsuit Seeks Timeline for FDA Action on Antibacterial Pesticide Triclosan

    Updated: 2010-07-30 05:01:38
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 30, 2010) Adding to a campaign that Beyond Pesticides launched in 2004 to alert the public and pressure government to restrict the highly toxic antibacterial chemical triclosan -commonly found in antibacterial soaps and household and consumer products, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit earlier this week against the Food [...]

  • Bee-cause we don’t know

    Updated: 2010-07-29 15:02:12
    The buzz about the disappearance of bees continues – it’s a frenzy of speculation, finger pointing and occasionally, research. Here’s a brief round-up of some recent cyberspace chatter on the subject… Sorry, wrong number Radiation from mobile phones is under the spotlight once more, CNN reports (with video) on an Indian university research project that involved attaching [...]

  • Getting Creative About Environmental Disaster

    Updated: 2010-07-29 10:26:56
    Steve Brooker, a good man from the state of Kansas, understandably perturbed by BP’s damage to the Gulf of Mexico has had a creative epiphany. He has made printing ink of lemons and oil. Brooker is using oil from the environmental disaster to make Necklaces and print T-shirts. Some of the proceeds he will donate [...]

  • New Pesticide Restrictions Set for Approval in Indiana Schools

    Updated: 2010-07-29 05:01:23
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 29, 2010) A set of mandatory rules intended to reduce pesticide use in public and private schools in Indiana is pending approval after voluntary implementation guidelines failed. The Indiana Pesticides Board submitted a draft proposal in June outlining rules to minimize pesticide exposure to students. These measures include banning the use of [...]

  • EPA To Elevate Environmental Justice in Its Rulemaking

    Updated: 2010-07-28 05:01:08
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 28, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is seeking public comment on an interim guidance document that requires agency staff to incorporate environmental justice into the agency’s rulemaking process. The rulemaking guidance is a step toward meeting EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s priority to work for environmental justice and protect the [...]

  • Big Problems for Big Coal USA

    Updated: 2010-07-27 11:42:40
    Every day that the chances for a Climate Change Bill drift further from the shore, the coal lobby becomes increasingly optimistic. Friends of Big Coal on Capitol Hill, however, are insisting that they put the partying on pause. The Fat Lady has not yet sung the song for the coal industry — and she probably [...]

  • Groups Seeking Ban on Chlorpyrifos Go to Federal Court

    Updated: 2010-07-27 05:01:06
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 27, 2010) Groups filed a lawsuit in federal court to force the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to decide whether or not it will cancel all remaining uses and tolerances for the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been banned for residential use, but continues to expose farmworkers and consumers through its use in agriculture. [...]

  • Many CA Child Care Centers Are Ignoring Pesticide Regulations

    Updated: 2010-07-26 05:01:29
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 26, 2010) Researchers at the Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research, UC Berkeley School of Public Health has found that the majority of child daycare centers surveyed do not understand the term Integrative Pest Management (IPM), and many spray pesticides without notifying parents or posting signs. Specifically, the survey found that over [...]

  • Use of Household Cleaners Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

    Updated: 2010-07-23 05:56:33
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 23, 2010) A new study published in BioMed’s online journal, Environmental Health, links endocrine disrupting pesticides and other chemicals in household cleaning products to an elevated risk of breast cancer. Researchers at the Silent Spring Institute in Newton, MA and Boston University found that women who use household cleaners more often have [...]

  • Monsanto Closer to Registering Dicamba-Resistant Soy

    Updated: 2010-07-22 05:01:30
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 22, 2010) In a press release submitted last week, the Monsanto Company, Inc. announced that it has taken a vital step towards commercializing a new soybean product that is tolerant to the neurotoxic pesticide dicamba by completing its regulatory submission to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for dicamba-tolerant soybeans. Monsanto expects [...]

  • What’s The Deal With Coffee?

    Updated: 2010-07-21 09:35:18
    This piece is loosely based on information, originally brought to public attention in 1997 via Stephen R. Braun’s 224-page book: Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine. First of all, know this: the human brain, and caffeine are not explained easily by modern science. When you are awake, brain neurons are shooting away [...]

  • Alaska Supreme Court Issues Restraining Order on Herbicide Spraying By Railroad

    Updated: 2010-07-21 05:01:09
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 21, 2010) Alaska’s Supreme Court halted plans to use glyphosate to kill weeds along track owned by the Alaska Railroad, which is believed to be the only herbicide-free stretch of rail in the country. This decision is in response to an emergency petition filed by Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) [...]

  • Washington State Denies State Registration of Methyl Iodide

    Updated: 2010-07-20 05:01:05
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 20, 2010) Washington state has denied approval of the highly toxic fumigant-based pesticide methyl iodide, and environmentalists hope other regulators follow its lead. Citing unreasonable adverse effects on human health and the environment, the Washington Department of Agriculture requested that Arysta LifeScience withdraw its application for the registration of methyl iodide on [...]

  • New Mobile App to Help Consumers Choose GM Free Food

    Updated: 2010-07-19 05:01:08
    (Beyond Pesticides, July 19, 2010) The Washington D.C. based Center for Food Safety (CFS) has unveiled an application for mobile phones to help shoppers quickly and easily identify foods made with ingredients from genetically modified (GM) organisms. Many consumers are leery of GM foods, yet unfortunately producers are not required to label products that contain [...]

  • Energizing Brew

    Updated: 2010-07-18 11:21:10
    A new facility in the UK, Adnams Bio Energy anaerobic digestion plan, using brewery waste and local food waste will begin producing renewable gas which can be used as liquid fuel among other things. Working in partnership with National Grid, the facility expects to generate up to 4.8 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year – [...]

  • Two-Headed Cow

    Updated: 2010-07-14 10:14:56
    A farmer in northern Egypt claims that his cow has given birth to a two-headed calf. He calls this a “divine miracle.” Sobhy el-Ganzoury said that it took two hours and a whole lot of pulling to deliver the rare calf; the difficult birth weakened the calf’s legs. The calf is expected to survive and [...]

  • Birds select conventional over organic wheat when given free choice

    Updated: 2010-07-13 15:08:37
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  • We're going to need a bigger harvest basket.

    Updated: 2010-07-12 05:26:54
    That's spinach on the left, and a major chard leaf on the right. I hadn't set out to make a major harvest, but when I lifted the cover off the greens patch next door, I found the spinach pushing the...

  • Jeans and Solar Cells

    Updated: 2010-07-11 07:52:18
    Brilliant Cornell University Researchers say that they have found a solution to creating yet more proficient solar cells. Well, as it turns out, particular molecules found in blue jeans and some other ink dyes may be used in a process for assembling a structure called “covalent organic framework” or COF, which help to make cheaper, [...]

  • Salmon in hot water

    Updated: 2010-07-06 19:27:06
    Rearing juvenile salmon at the relatively high temperature of 16C causes skeletal deformities in the fish. Scientists writing in the open access journal BMC Physiology investigated both the magnitude and mechanisms of this effect, which occurs when salmon farmers use warmed water to increase fish growth rates........

  • What The Doctor Didn’t Tell You: Gifts for Health

    Updated: 2010-07-05 14:05:33
    Listen, we all know that there are various ways to stay healthy. Taking vitamins, meditating, exercise, eating healthy, dressing warmly when it is cold outside and keeping your body and hands clean are all common and practical ways to keep your health in check. Well, another idea is wearing spiritual jewelry, for yourself or as [...]

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