• Yesterday’s omelet

    Updated: 2011-05-30 05:49:19
    Seriously, folks. Back to gardening. This morning my long-suffering husband informed me that we had with real, local eggs for our Saturday omelet. (If you don’t know why he’s long-suffering, you haven’t read this morning’s post. It was supposed to...

  • Renewing Renewable With the IPCC

    Updated: 2011-05-27 10:49:35
    Sustainable and renewable sources like solar and wind could supply up to 80 percent of the planet’s energy requirements by 2050 as well as play a role in fighting global warming. But the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change say that in order to achieve that level, governments would have to spend much more money [...]

  • Groups Sue FDA to Restrict Antibiotics in Livestock Feed

    Updated: 2011-05-27 06:24:16
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 27, 2011) A coalition of environmental and public health groups filed a lawsuit yesterday against the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require the agency to enforce strict standards regarding the routine use of antibiotics in livestock feed. The suit, filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Center for Science [...]

  • Keep That Mouse Out of My House!

    Updated: 2011-05-26 16:41:35
    Rats and mice are a pest control nightmare that are not only a nuisance but dangerous as well.  They are carriers of numerous diseases such as; murine typhus, leptospirosis, trichinosis, salmonellosis (food poisoning), and ratbite fever. Plague is a disease that can be carried by both roof and Norway rats, but in California it is [...]

  • Know Your Enemy: Rat or Mouse?

    Updated: 2011-05-26 16:41:34
    If you are reading this, you may already have a concern that you have uninvited mammals living in your home. The steps and actions that you take to eradicate your castle of these rodent pests will vary depending on the specific pest.  You must identify the source to effectively eradicate the problem.  So we need [...]

  • Kentucky Rand Paul vs. Obamacare

    Updated: 2011-05-25 09:37:34
    Rand Paul from Kentucky was speaking recently about the new healthcare law some refer to as “Obamacare.” Like many Republicans, Paul, the son of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), is not a fan. Unlike many conservatives, the “tea party” sweetheart does not like the law because, he says, it reminds him of slavery. “With regard to [...]

  • Senate Considers Eliminating CWA Protections from Pesticides, Act Now

    Updated: 2011-05-25 05:01:34
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 25, 2011) Legislation, already passed by the U.S. House of Representatives, that would allow pesticides to be sprayed into water without a Clean Water Act (CWA) permit, is now being weighed by the U.S. Senate (S. 718). The Western Farm Press recently reported that Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, chair of the Senate [...]

  • Goose, Goose….YUCK!

    Updated: 2011-05-25 01:01:57
    I, for one, am not a goose lover.  But mine is personal vendetta, fueled by years of trying to avoid their menacing stares and threats of attack as I meekly traveled to and from my college classes.  These “ducks on steroids” confidently waddled around our university grounds, near the park’s lake, like an overly powerful [...]

  • Missouri Disaster, at least 89 Dead

    Updated: 2011-05-24 12:29:28
    The gigantic tornado which tore a 6-mile path through southwestern Missouri killed at least 89 people as it slammed into a hospital in the city of Joplin, crushing cars and leaving a forest of split tree trunks behind where once whole neighborhoods stood. Authorities cautioned that the death toll could climb as search and rescue [...]

  • Court of Appeals Dismisses Monsanto’s Appeal, Requires EIS for GE Sugar Beets

    Updated: 2011-05-24 05:01:28
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 24, 2011) Last Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a summary order upholding a landmark legal decision requiring the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to conduct an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before approving the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops. The decision upholds previous court rulings in [...]

  • Potent Carcinogen Methyl Iodide Used for First Time in California

    Updated: 2011-05-23 05:01:29
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 23, 2011) A California farm growing chile peppers has become the first in the state of California to use the highly toxic and controversial soil fumigant methyl iodide. Despite the concerns of farmworker advocates, medical experts, and environmentalists, as well as a pending lawsuit, the farm in Sanger, California applied the fumigant [...]

  • Keeping Larger Pests of our Your Garden

    Updated: 2011-05-22 22:19:31
    While I can’t wait for the summer to feast on fresh ripe tomatoes and melons, I can always do without the disappointment of walking out to the garden to see all of my hard work trampled and tasted by area wild life.  Deer, rabbits, dogs and cats can all do their own particular type of [...]

  • National Organic Standards Board Strengthens Organic Integrity at Spring Meeting

    Updated: 2011-05-20 05:01:16
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 20, 2011) At its April 26-29, 2011 Spring meeting in Seattle, Washington, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) strengthened standards affecting the integrity of organic food and farming and rejected proposals that would have weakened the standards. The board voted on recommendations proposed by each of the various issue committees including Crops; [...]

  • Researchers Discover Toxins from GE Food in Human Blood

    Updated: 2011-05-19 05:01:13
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 19, 2011) Scientists at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada found that pesticides associated with genetically engineered (GE) foods are present in maternal, fetal and nonpregnant women’s blood, emphasizing the need for further research into the effects that GE food has on human health. The study, “Maternal and fetal exposure to [...]

  • Protect Your Family from this Life Threatening Hazard

    Updated: 2011-05-19 04:27:25
    The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states: Asthma is a lifelong disease that causes wheezing, breathlessness, chest tightness, and coughing. It can limit a person’s quality of life.  The number of people diagnosed with asthma grew by 4.3 million from 2001 to 2009. From 2001 through 2009 asthma rates rose the most among black [...]

  • House Boats on Gowanus Canal

    Updated: 2011-05-18 16:48:09
    Four houseboats currently docked in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, one of the country’s most-polluted waterways have so far shirked inspection from the city agencies who monitor safety regulations. Three of these boats are occupied by “hipster twenty-somethings“, known in the neighborhood for throwing wild canal parties late into the night, and by “pretty girls sunbathing on [...]

  • USDA Pressed to Release Pesticide Report; Industry Campaigns to Suppress Data

    Updated: 2011-05-18 05:01:42
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 18, 2011) Chemical-intensive agriculture groups are seeking to derail the release of an annual U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report, which has been released yearly for two decades, on the amount of pesticide residue detected by the Department on nationwide samples of fresh fruits and vegetables. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses [...]

  • Living in MY Gutters?

    Updated: 2011-05-18 04:25:56
    Until I got gutters, I had no idea how annoying and detrimental birds could be.  I’ve always enjoyed watching them circle and swoop, listened to their lovely melodies, and generally just appreciated the gifts that nature had given them.  This was before I became the proud new owner of shiny gutters on our family home.  [...]

  • EPA Considers Bilingual Pesticide Labels, Public Comments Needed

    Updated: 2011-05-17 05:01:08
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 17, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received a petition from the Migrant Clinicians Network, Farmworker Justice, and other farmworker interest groups asking the agency to require that manufacturers make their pesticide product labels available in both English and Spanish. EPA is inviting public comment until June 28, 2011 (see [...]

  • What’s the Drill? Obama Tells All!

    Updated: 2011-05-16 10:24:58
    Amidst public chagrin about gas prices, President Barack Obama is increasing U.S. oil production by augmenting existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico as well as off Alaska’s coast and holding more lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska more often. Obama said the measures “make good sense” and will help reduce national [...]

  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Considers Massive Aerial Spray to Eradicate Invasive Mice

    Updated: 2011-05-16 05:01:27
    (Beyond Pesticides, May 16, 2011) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is looking into “carpet-bombing” with pesticides (or a large aerial bombing) the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco, in an effort to eradicate the invasive house mouse that is encroaching on the survival of an endangered seabird. The problem is that [...]

  • Mosquito, Mosquito…GO AWAY!

    Updated: 2011-05-15 20:30:55
    Like the popular children’s song says, “rain, rain go away, little Tommy wants to play”, the same anthem can be used to describe our sentiments towards mosquitoes.  Beautiful days of summer fun and outdoor play for our little ones can be squelched by the stinging bite of nature’s little blood sucker, the mosquito.  As mothers, [...]

  • Taxes and Mosquitoes

    Updated: 2011-05-14 17:53:20
    Usually, people say that there are two things that every human has to do in a lifetime, pay taxes and die.  If you are from south Louisiana, there is one more item that can be added to your list, deal with the mosquito.  If you live in any area with high humidity and tropical climate [...]

  • Going Green in the Garden

    Updated: 2011-05-14 17:53:19
    Planting season is finally here, and summer vegetables and herbs are on their way!  Now if only we can keep the pests out of our vegetable gardens so we can enjoy the fruits of our hard labor, instead of them, all will be well.  Since we plan on feeding ourselves and our family’s from that [...]

  • Today’s Green Pest Control

    Updated: 2011-05-13 01:50:30
    On a daily basis, we hear the phrases, “Go Green”, “Live Green”, and the like.  But in our day to day lives, it can be daunting to manage all life’s to-do lists, and still act responsibly towards our environment.  Between the morning rushes, two full time busy work days, taxi-ing Billy and Suzy to sports [...]

  • It’s Rainin’ Down in Mississippi

    Updated: 2011-05-12 15:27:50
    The Mississippi River which is now at almost 48 feet as of last Tuesday, measured from Memphis, Tennessee, is just inches away from the record set in year 1937. As the enormous surge of water works its way further south, residents in places like the Mississippi Delta are now becoming ready for historic flooding. Recent [...]

  • Foreign Accent Syndrome? That’s right, Foreign Accent Syndrome!

    Updated: 2011-05-11 11:36:59
    Karen Butler is from Newport, Oregon but she speaks with an Irish accent. Though, she did not acquire it from spending time across the Atlantic. She picked it up at the dentist’s office. Butler explained recently on the Today Show, she to the dentists’ for a surgical procedure about a year and a half ago. [...]

  • Safety of food crops on land contaminated with trace elements

    Updated: 2011-05-06 08:33:12
    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture Volume 91, Number 8 Safety of food crops on land contaminated with trace elements Authors : Singh , Bal Ram Gupta , Satish K Azaizeh , Hassan Shilev , Stefan Sudre , Damien Song , Won Yong Martinoia , Enrico Mench , Michel : Source Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture Volume 91, Number 8, June 2011 pp . 1349-1366(18 Publisher : John Wiley Sons , . Ltd view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article The full text article is not available for . purchase The publisher only permits individual articles to be downloaded by . subscribers :

  • The What? The Plant! That’s What!

    Updated: 2011-05-05 10:29:51
    For many years, Jesse and Samuel Edwin Evans brewed beer at an independent brewery in Northern California. Now they’ve come to Chicago. Part of a massive vertical farm in an old South Side warehouse, the location of the new brewery will house one of the most sustainable beer-making processes in the world. Summer before last, [...]

  • New Discovery in the Journal of Applied Physics

    Updated: 2011-05-03 13:45:22
    Researchers at the University of Michigan have made a discovery that presents a breakthrough in solar power generation. Stephen Rand, is a professor at the University of Michigan and author of the report that discusses his team’s discovery in the “Journal of Applied Physics,” the researchers discovered a way to make an “optical battery” that [...]

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