Greening the Community
Green economy, organic environments and healthy people
The 28th National Pesticide Forum - April 9-10, 2010
Thank you to everyone who participated in and supported the conference. With your help, it was one of our most successful to date. Videos from the Forum will be posted in the coming weeks. Please check back soon!
More information on the issues
- Pesticides and pollinators
- Organic lawns and landscapes
- Organic food (also see Thinking Beyond Our Plates: Tools & sources for finding good food, food truth & justice for all, Melinda Hemmelgarn)
- Clean water
- Triclosan
- Children and schools
Take Action! Help eliminate hazardous pesticide use.
- Support the School Environment Protection Act, federal legislation to protect children from pesticides in schools.
- Help end the consumer use of the hazardous antibacterial chemical triclosan. Get your municipality, institution or company to adopt this resolution to not buy products with triclosan. Also, sign the pledge to not use triclosan in your own household.
- Sign the petition to Major League Baseball on its deal with Scotts, which promotes seed and treatment products that are unnecessarily chemical-intensive.
- If you have not completed the Forum evaluation form, please fill out the online form - which can be submitted online or printed.
We are searching for a location for the 2011 National Pesticide Forum...Any suggestions? We're looking for a community with dedicated local organizers to work with us to put together another successful conference! Please send us your suggestions.
Forum Sponsors
Convenors: Beyond
Pesticides (Washington, DC), Case Western Reserve University Medical
School's Swetland
Center for Environmental Health, and Beyond
Pesticides Ohio. Co-sponsors: Bioneers Cleveland, Community Gardening Program (OSU Extension), Cuyahoga Greens, Cleveland
Botanical Garden, Cleveland
Food Co-Op, Doan Brook Watershed Partnership, Earth Day
Coalition, EcoWatch, Environmental
Health Watch, GreenCityBlueLake
Institute, Holden Arboretum, Nature Center at Shaker Lakes, Local Food Cleveland, Neighborhood
Progress Inc., North
Union Farmers Market, Northeast
Ohio Sierra Club, Northern
Ohio Wellness Connection, Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association, Ohio
Environmental Council, Treez Please, and University Circle Incorporated.
To watch presentations from past National Pesticide Forums, visit our Videos for Change page.
THANK YOU! The generosity of our sponsors helps make the conference a great event year after year. The sponsors listed below contributed to the National Pesticide Forum scholarship fund, making it possible for people from around the country to participate in one of the most important grassroots pesticide meetings of the year. Learn more about becoming a sponsor. Click on the logos for more information.
