• Denver Parents Present Signatures to School Board to Stop Pesticide Use

    Updated: 2011-06-30 07:25:44
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 29, 2011) The Edison Elementary Green Team, a group of concerned parents in Denver, Colorado asked the Denver Public School Board Monday to stop the use of harmful chemicals. The group has been petitioning for almost a month now, collecting over 1,000 signatures of concerned parents and community members urging the school [...]

  • IPM Action Threshold

    Updated: 2011-06-30 04:06:13
    Our previous two blogs have been dedicated to sharing information concerning integrated pest management protocol techniques with the DIY pest controller.  If you are only joining us today, the first blog which concerned itself with general background and necessity of IPM can be viewed here.  The second blog, which was dedicated to step one in [...]

  • Celebrities Gone Green: Fran Drescher Is a Fan Of The Toxies

    Updated: 2011-06-30 04:06:10
    We love award shows. The outfits, the speeches, the people we really want to win—and those we really don’t want to win. And, it turns out, they’re just as much fun when the nominees aren’t celebrities, but our most-hated chemicals. We’re talking, of course, about the Toxies, an award show that honors (or, rather, dishonors) “bad [...]

  • Bill Reintroduced to Regulate Chemicals in Cosmetic Products

    Updated: 2011-06-29 05:28:14
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 29, 2011) The Safe Cosmetics Act of 2011 was reintroduced last week in the House of Representatives aiming to grant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate personal care products, including cosmetics, to ensure they are free of harmful ingredients before they hit the shelves. Cosmetics currently go unregulated [...]

  • Study Offers Insights into Link between Parkinson’s and Pesticides

    Updated: 2011-06-28 06:39:14
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 28, 2011) Recent studies have linked Parkinson’s disease to pesticide exposure. In a new article published in the journal Molecular Neurodegeneration, researchers at the University of Missouri School of Medicine take some of the first steps toward understanding this link and unraveling the molecular dysfunction that occurs when proteins are exposed to [...]

  • Implementing Integrated Pest Management for the Do It Yourself Pest Controller

    Updated: 2011-06-28 04:36:13
    Previously, we introduced to you the concept of IPM, or integrated pest management, as an option for the DIY pest controller.  It is a holistic process of reviewing and addressing pest control needs, with increased outcomes and decreased toxicity for our ecosystems. Presently, I would like to enlighten you to the more detailed steps involved [...]

  • Legalize Pot?

    Updated: 2011-06-27 10:36:31
    Democratic Massachusetts Representative Barney Frand and Republican Texas Representative Ron Paul will introduce legislation on Thursday to end the federal ban on marijuana as the states decide whether or not to legalize it. “The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, allowing people to legally grow, use [...]

  • Study Finds Pregnant Women and Fetuses Contaminated with Pesticides Linked to GE Food

    Updated: 2011-06-27 05:01:13
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 27, 2011) A study published in the May 2011 edition of the journal Reproductive Toxicology finds pregnant women and their fetuses contaminated with pesticides and metabolites of the herbicide gluphosinate and the Cry1Ab protein of the insecticide based on the bacterium bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), both affiliated with genetically engineered (GE) food. The [...]

  • Floridian Fossil Fortune Found

    Updated: 2011-06-26 09:22:18
    As it turns out, some of the earliest Americans were artists. A bone fragment some 13,000 years old, with images carved on it of a mammoth or mastodon was discovered down in Florida. Similar prehistoric art depicting animals with trunks has been unearthed in Europe, however, this is the first in the Western Hemisphere. The [...]

  • First Motion Filed in Latest Suit Against GE Alfalfa

    Updated: 2011-06-24 05:01:15
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 24, 2011) Attorneys for farmer and environmental organizations filed a motion in court on Monday to seek partial judgment in their case against Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack regarding his department’s recent deregulation of genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa. The plaintiffs, including the Center for Food Safety, Beyond Pesticides, and several seed and [...]

  • Common Summer Pests

    Updated: 2011-06-23 11:26:15
    Bees: Warmer weather and tons of blooming flowers will have bees swarming, as well as looking for places to expand and create a new hive.  Having bee hives near your home can be dangerous to your family and pets, especially if you have a family member with any bee related allergies.  Bees are so important [...]

  • Integrated Pest Management

    Updated: 2011-06-23 11:26:14
    Radcliffe’s IPM World Textbook lists the definition of Integrated Pest Management as follows: Integrated pest management can be defined as the practice of preventing or suppressing damaging populations of insect pests by application of the comprehensive and coordinated integration of multiple control tactics. Tactics are the various control methodologies, e.g., chemical, biological, cultural. Strategies are [...]

  • SPI Solar and Nugen

    Updated: 2011-06-23 08:11:28
    SPI Solar, a leading developer of photovoltaic solar energy facilities recently announced it has entered into an engineering, procurement and construction contract with EPC contractor for a 1.69MW DC photovoltaic solar project in the great state of New Jersey. The system is a roof-mounted distributed generation system for on-site power consumption. The project is to [...]

  • Bill That Strips Water Protections from Pesticides Advances in Senate, Act Now

    Updated: 2011-06-23 05:43:38
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 23, 2011) The Senate Agriculture Committee has passed legislation that would allow pesticides to be sprayed into water without a Clean Water Act (CWA) on Tuesday, June 21, and urgent action is needed to stop the bill from passing in the full Senate. The bill, Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011 (H.R. [...]

  • Celebrities Gone Green: Ryan Reynolds Isn’t Just Green In The Green Lantern

    Updated: 2011-06-22 13:50:30
    Ryan Reynolds is all about green these days. Most publicly, in the form of his new movie Green Lantern, in which he plays pilot-turned-superhero Hal Jordan. But, on a less talked about level, Reynolds is also getting even more gung-ho about the environment. And, unlike Green Lantern, which has received mixed reviews, we’ve got nothing [...]

  • Herbicides Detected in the Urine of Oregon Residents

    Updated: 2011-06-22 05:01:51
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 22, 2011) Exposure to two herbicides, atrazine and 2,4-D, commonly used in lawn care and forest management will be studied by Oregon health officials after they were found in the urine of residents of the Triangle Lake area of the Coast Range west of Eugene, Oregon. The State Department of Agriculture is [...]

  • Recycling in West Bridgewater

    Updated: 2011-06-21 08:19:01
    It will be requested of residents of West Bridgewater Massachusetts next month to increase their recycling efforts. Starting the first day of July, the West Bridgewater transfer station will accept computer monitors, mercury-based items like fluorescent lighting tubes, computer printer ink cartridges, waste oil and car batteries. Transfer station attendant Rich Jefferson: “An ongoing problem [...]

  • Alliance Calls for Stronger Measures to Protect Human Health, Wildlife from Dangerous Pesticides

    Updated: 2011-06-21 05:01:22
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 21, 2011) More than 130 groups in 35 states, representing public health, food-security, sustainable-farming, farmworker and conservation interests called on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use all the tools at its disposal to protect public health and imperiled wildlife from toxic pesticides. The June 16th letter to EPA, which was signed [...]

  • Organochlorine Pesticides Linked to Adverse Birth Effects

    Updated: 2011-06-20 05:38:45
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 20, 2011) In a study published this week in the journal Pediatrics, researchers report findings that link mothers’ exposure to organochlorine pesticides during pregnancy with infants’ sizes at birth. The trend shows that the more mothers are exposed to the pesticides during pregnancy, the higher the chances are for reduced birth weight [...]

  • What’s With All This Algae: Dead Zone in the Gulf

    Updated: 2011-06-19 14:42:26
    Scientists are predicting that this year’s “dead zone” of low-oxygen water in the northern Gulf of Mexico will be the largest to date. Every year when the nutrient-rich freshwater of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers pour into the Gulf, it causes massive algae blooms. Then this algae consumes the oxygen in the Gulf, making the [...]

  • No Energy Conservation System at Oregon State University

    Updated: 2011-06-18 14:35:24
    No energy conservation system is 100% effective; alas, there is always some energy that gets wasted. One common example is the automobile engine which gets quite hot. Some of the waste gets recovered by heating the car for instance. With the completion of a functioning prototype, engineers at Oregon State University made a major step [...]

  • Shrimp shell peptide hydrolysates inhibit human cancer cell proliferation

    Updated: 2011-06-18 10:04:04
    . 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 10 Shrimp shell peptide hydrolysates inhibit human cancer cell proliferation Authors : Kannan , Arvind Hettiarachchy , Navam S Marshall , Maurice Raghavan , Sivakumar Kristinsson , Hordur : Source Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture Volume 91, Number 10, 15 August 2011 pp . 1920-1924(5 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 : Abstract :

  • Introducing: The Conversation

    Updated: 2011-06-17 14:33:10
    A group of Australian scientists recently began a new online effort to correlate the body of science and the rising human influence on the climate system. Their initial piece, “Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community,” covers The Conversation, an academic Web site that aims to provide a credible source of [...]

  • U.S. House Proposes Ban on Genetically Engineered Salmon

    Updated: 2011-06-17 05:01:57
    (Beyond Pesticides, June 17, 2011) The U.S. House of Representatives this week approved a measure that would bar the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from allowing genetically engineered (GE) salmon to be freely bought and sold. The measure was added as an amendment to the 2012 agriculture and food safety funding bill by U.S. Representative [...]

  • The organic myth: hungry for land

    Updated: 2011-06-15 15:28:24
    “Organic production contributes to a high level of biodiversity and the preservation of species and natural habitats.” A misleading statement, and part of the European Commission’s official organic campaign. Organic production can in fact lead to the destruction of natural habitats; and a loss of habitats will usually result in a loss of species. The [...]

  • Moon Eclipse To Last Longer Than Usual

    Updated: 2011-06-15 12:04:15
    This year’s first total eclipse of the moon will last an unusually long time. That is, unless you live in Canada or the United States. North America will not be privy to Wednesday’s lunar spectacle. The period when earth’s shadow completely blocks the moon will last 1 hour and 40 minutes. The last time the [...]

  • Let the Dead Sea Live

    Updated: 2011-06-14 12:02:17
    The water level in the Dead Sea is dropping nearly 4 feet (1.2 meters) per year. Israel is campaigning to have the Dead Sea – the earth’s lowest point and repository of precious minerals – named one of the natural wonders of the world. And at the same time, it is in a race to [...]

  • Arctic Warming Conference

    Updated: 2011-06-13 19:49:16
    At an Arctic warming conference in Copenhagen, scientists were told to use plain language to explain the dramatic melt in the region to a world reluctant to take action against climate change. An authoritative report released at the meeting of 400 scientists showed melting ice in the Arctic might help raise global sea levels by [...]

  • Identifying Signs of a Termite Infestation

    Updated: 2011-06-10 06:51:33
    Termites are beyond a nuisance to homeowners all over the United States.  Termites are responsible for millions of dollars of damage to the American homeowner yearly.  In our present economic condition, American homeowners cannot afford to ignore the threat that termites pose to their home investment. LSUagcenter.com reports, “Su (1994) estimated the annual cost of [...]

  • Toot Your Own HORNworm!

    Updated: 2011-06-10 06:51:32
    The Tomato Hornworm has plagued me for many seasons.  He loves the things that I love; eggplants, peppers, tomatillos and tomatoes.  If he existed on the pages of a Dr. Suess book, I might think that he looked darling and colorful, but when I see him gnawing his way to the stalk on my tomato [...]

  • The Good Guys: Super Bugs for Your Garden

    Updated: 2011-06-10 06:51:31
    All bugs are not created equal.  All bugs are not pests.  Many bugs can be beneficial to your home garden and should be left alone to reduce the actual PESTS.  The only problem is that to the untrained eye, a bug is a bug is a bug.  O’ ye of little training!  Let’s do some [...]

  • How to Control a Rat Infestation

    Updated: 2011-06-10 06:51:30
    The different manners of dealing with a rodent infestation are outlined below.  We have already addressed a couple of them in our previous articles, namely Sanitation and Exclusion. Predators: The rodents’ natural predators can be a great help to the common homeowner.  Our first instinct is to think of the family dog or cat as [...]

  • I Smell a RAT!!

    Updated: 2011-06-10 06:51:29
    Today I will share something very personal with you.  Throughout my life, I have experienced numerous trials and tribulations. God has seen fit to regulary test my determination, but mostly my sense of humor.  But one incident was near too much to bear.  I share this with you in hopes that you can learn from [...]

  • Fall work in spring: Let the earthworms do it!

    Updated: 2011-06-07 04:01:17
    I’m not sure where I first heard that line about letting the earthworms do your digging for you, but I’m putting it to the test this year. It’s part of my effort to get away from digging in amendments every...

  • Basement garden harvest: the rudest carrot

    Updated: 2011-06-03 05:12:12
    This may be the rudest, crudest vegetable I've grown. It's flagrantly suggestive in rather obvious ways, but even if you manage to look past those, it looks to me like a carrot giving the finger to—what? The other carrots? The...

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