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Pesticide Use

A Plea to President Obama: Phase Out Pesticides

Evaggelos Vallianatos | Posted 01.15.2013 | Green
Read More: Public Health, Pesticides, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Protection, Pesticide Use, Epa, Green News
Evaggelos Vallianatos

Pesticides are by design killers of life. They are biocides. The only real solution of the pesticides problem is their abolition.

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Safe vs. Safer

Alex Formuzis | Posted 07.23.2012 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Conventional Food, Organic Farming, Pesticide Use, Pesticide Organic Farming, Organic Food, Pesticide Conventional Farming, Pesticide Regulation, Green News
Alex Formuzis

A pesticide used on conventional produce may be deemed "safe" one day only to be restricted or banned the next when new evidence comes in.

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Widely-Used Pesticides Killing Bees

Heather Pilatic | Posted 05.29.2012 | Green
Read More: Pesticides, Bees Neonicotinoids, Bees, Beekeeping, Pesticide Action Network, Beekeepers, Common Pesticides, Pesticide Use, Honeybees, Pesticide, Green News
Heather Pilatic

Pesticides are prevalent, persistent and more scientists confirm everyday that they are making bees sick (or dead). The sad truth? Beekeepers have been sounding this alarm from the ground for years. Would that we had listened.

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