Our Right To Know - pesticide in schools
Dr. Rhonda Jessum at the Las Virgenes Unified School District board meeting addressing the Superintendent and school board elected officials. Dr ...
Denver City Park
Pesticide sprayed in Denver City Park earlier in the day. People using the park pay little attention to the warning sign. Two unfortunate people ...
Where kids play, banish pesky pesticides for good, local group says
But that isn't stopping a local citizens group from trying to ensure that the use of chemicals is forever banned here, and anywhere else in New Jersey where children might play.
Safe Yards Montclair wants the Township Council to pass a resolution to support banning the use of synthetic lawn-care pesticides at schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields in parks, except in emergency situations, Suzanne Aptman, co-chair of the group that promotes nontoxic lawn care, said at a meeting of the Montclair Environmental Commission last week.
During the meeting, which was attended by Montclair Mayor Jerry Fried, Aptman said that New Jersey Senate Bill S-2610 would protect kids, in daycare through 12th grade, from "unnecessary" lawn chemicals that she believes are mostly used for aesthetic purposes, and could pose health risks.
The state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee is slated to hear the bill today, Aptman said.
"There's just too much evidence linking it to lots of serious problems," she said.
Why we should like dandelions. | Lectio.ca
The caterpillar of the Eastern Swallowtail, probably a cousin of your Canadian Swallowtail, eats the foliage of plants in the Umbellaferae family (don’t be impressed, I had to look it up). Those are the plants with feathery leaves and flowers in umbrella-shaped formations, like parsley, yarrow, carrot, anise, caraway, dill, fennel, chervil, cicely, and Queen Anne’s lace, among others. So more dandelions do not necessarily mean more swallowtails, although there could be an adjacent effect (I just made up that term), meaning that if people don’t go all out eliminating weeds like yarrow, Queen Anne’s lace, etc., the dandelions will thrive alongside the swallowtails.
Thus endeth your horticulture lesson for Monday....
New Jersey Green Industry is next on the Pesticide Hit List ...
Wants the Township Council to pass a resolution to support banning the use of synthetic lawn-care pesticides at schools, playgrounds, and recreational fields in parks, except in emergency situations, Suzanne Aptman, co-chair of the group that promotes nontoxic lawn care, said at a meeting of the Montclair Environmental Commission last week.
During the meeting, which was attended by Mayor Jerry Fried, Aptman said that New Jersey Senate Bill S-2610 would protect kids, in daycare through 12th grade, from “unnecessary” lawn chemicals that she believes are mostly used for aesthetic purposes, and could pose health risks.
The state Senate Budget and Appropriations Committee is slated to hear the bill today, Aptman said.
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