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• in Green
  Sustainable Eating
  Buying produce at local farmers market, eating only in-season foods and eating organic makes eco-friendly sense.
  by caroline1234 / on Sep 14, 2011
• in Green
  Imprelis Lawsuit: DuPont's New Herbicide Is Killing Trees
  Marketed as an environmentally friendly herbicide, DuPont's Imprelis is suspected of killing tens of thousands of trees
  by toddheft / on Jul 20, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Is Organic Always Better?
  If your budget it limited, there are some foods you might not need to buy organic.
  by beckyack / on May 25, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pesticide”

 

• Boycott Olympics if Dow stays, says Chouhan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Bhopal, Jan 29 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Sunday demanded that India should boycott the London Olympics if Dow Chemicals remains a sponsor.“India is now an economic superpower and not a weak country. Either Dow should be removed from the sponsorship of Olympics or India should not ...
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• Farmer commits suicide in Madhya Pradesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Bhopal, Jan 29 (IANS) A 35-year-old farmer committed suicide by consuming pesticide at his field in Damoh district after his crop failed, family members said Sunday.Bhagwandas Patel of Chewla village in Hata block was disturbed as the grain crop in his 4 acre land had got ruined because of the frost.Around Jan 20, ...
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• Illegal fertiliser network causes stink

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 425
  Dozens of Danish farmers have being purchasing illegal fertiliser and crop spray from a Jutland group smuggling in the products from Germany. According to official correspondence obtained by Politiken, between 2007 and 2009 160 farmers bought a total of 15,045 tonnes of chemicals which came from a warehouse in ...
  15 hours ago

• Dow is a major sponsor of London Olympic 2012

  
  Techno-Guru - Latest Technology News India, Latest Breaking Bollywood News of India, Online Shopping — Authority: 133
  The London Olympics Organisisng Committee said on Friday that Dow Chemicals will remain the sponsors of the 2012 London Olympics, according to media reports. The chief executive of London Olympics organisers (Locog) said that they were comfortable with Dow remaining sponsor of the Olympics. The committee said that the ...
  2 days ago

• HOMEMADE ORGANIC GARDENING PESTICIDES – ARE THEY EFFECTIVE?

  
  Production House — Authority: 101
  Growing organic fruits as good as vegetables in your own grassed area is positively a rewarding experience. You protection a furnish we grow is chemical-free as good as as full of health as possible. The pick is to squeeze furnish from a marketplace or plantation along with a unknowns of what chemicals were used to ...
  2 days ago

• Monsanto’s Best-Selling Herbicide Roundup Linked to Infertility

  
  News Worldwide — Authority: 465
  Monsanto’s Best-Selling Herbicide Roundup Linked to Infertility Andre Evans Natural Society January 23, 2012 A recent study has found that Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide may be responsible for causing infertility. After reviewing the many already well-documented negative impacts Roundup has on the environment and ...
  4 days ago

• Strawberries ‘n Cancer: Methyl Iodine’s Future Uncertain in California

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 459
  Methyl iodine, the neurotoxin chemical used to fumigate strawberry and tomato fields before planting, is at the heart of a growing debate in California just a year after former Governor Schwarzenegger approved its use.
  6 days ago

• Organic!

  
  The Green Man Project — Authority: 89
  
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• The Silence of the Bees

  
  Climate Change: The Next Generation — Authority: 121
  The Silence of the Bees January 16, 2012 Podcast:  Play in new window  |  Download To be a bee, or not to be a bee, that is the question when the colony is about to collapse. (Photo by Doug88888.Flickr) This is how the media deal with stories such as bee-colony collapse disorder. It is as if, on ...
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• Honeybee problem nearing a critical point

  
  Jehovah's Witnesses News and Archive — Authority: 139
  The state of honeybees is inching... toward a critical tipping point, says beekeeper Steve Ellis. Photograph: Will Sanders Unusual honeybee die-offs have become so severe that some US beekeepers will qualify for disaster relief funds Anyone whos been stung by a bee knows they can ...
  2 weeks ago

• USDA IGNORES PESTICIDE RAVAGING BEES

  
  Life on Sleepy Creek in Words and Images — Authority: 137
  http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/usda-ignores-pesticide-ravaging-bee.html
  2 weeks ago

• Research Linking Pesticide Use to Decline in Bee Population Suppressed

  
  News and Current Events — Authority: 129
  Mike Barrett Activist Post It has recently been reported that certain research was suppressed concerning the bee decline which has been occurring over the past few years. It seems that the large sum of money raked in by Bayer, a maker of pesticides, was enough to kick research under the carpet that linked ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not enough done for Bhopal tragedy victims: Activist

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  Bhopal, Jan 12 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government has not done enough for the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy and their next generations, an activist said Thursday.A day before a group of ministers’ (GoM) scheduled meeting in Delhi, Abdul Jabbar, convener of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udhyog Sangathan, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What is Diatomaceous Earth

  
  Hopkins-CSSA Business Journal — Authority: 121
  Diatomaceous earth is a naturally occurring substance, otherwise known as silicon dioxide.  In the use of insecticides, this product acts as bait and then kills insects when ingested by them, as well as causes the insects to dehydrate within forty eight hours of exposure.  It must be kept dry in order to work ...
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• Setting a Pest Trap

  
  Global Economy Business and Finance Blog — Authority: 121
  Trapping pests are a method in use more often for the easy disposal of crawling insects and flying pests that are a threat to health and property.  The most popular reason why these insect traps are in use is due to the way the entire solution to the problem is contained in one area.  These traps attract insects ...
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• The Economy Needs Beekeepers

  
  Toonari Post - A News Mash Up! — Authority: 440
  On January 10, 2012, beekeepers from across the country gathered at a national conference, with environmental organizations at their side, to draw attention to the growing plight facing their industry –the decline of honey bees – a problem that has far reaching implications for the U.S. economy. “Bees and other ...
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• India’s children reap the bitter harvest of endosulfan

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 163
  http://www.guardian.co.uk India’s children reap the bitter harvest of endosulfan In some Keralan villages half the familes have a severely disabled child: the legacy, locals say, of pesticide sprayingThe villagers see the dust rising from the jeep track and know that Dr Mohammed Asheel is on his way. In ...
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• Pesticide Environmental Damage

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 587
  With this understanding, the pesticide is used on almost every farm. But, behind the hugely beneficial, the researchers eventually realized that the pesticide has a considerable adverse impact on its use. After investigation, pesticides can damage aquatic ecosystems around the farm. Why is that? If pesticides are ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pesticide Use Rises in California

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 459
  The California Department of Pesticide Regulation released data showing an extra 15 million pounds—nearly a ten percent increase—of pesticides were used in 2010 after four years of steady declines.
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• Petition Calls to Block Agent Orange Resistant GMO Corn

  
  OrganicAuthority.com - Organic Blog — Authority: 459
  Consumer advocacy group, The Cornucopia Institute, is calling for concerned citizens to sign a petition in hopes of blocking Dow Chemical, the manufacturer of 2,4-D— toxic herbicide found in Agent Orange—that is waiting on approval from the USDA for its genetically engineered strain of corn resistant to the ...
  3 weeks ago

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