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EPA Limits Pesticide Use Near Salmon Waters
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, endangered, protection, pesticides, EPA, Salmon )

Meg
- 93 days ago - sfgate.com
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new measures to protect endangered and threatened Pacific salmon on Friday, limiting three pesticides commonly used on farms.
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Green Living 101: How Can I Avoid the Anti-Bacterial Chemical Triclosan?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: environment, green, greenliving, greenproducts, healthy, health, pesticides, pesticides )

Jennifer
- 96 days ago - examiner.com
Triclosan, an anti-microbial substance classified by the Environmental Protection Agency as a pesticide, is used in thousands of consumer products from soaps to sandals, often under the brand name Microban.
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NRDC Action Center:
Green Lifestyle  (tags: children, pets, pesticides, fleas, protection, petition )

Jelica
- 115 days ago - secure.nrdconline.org
Although we have safer options for controlling fleas on our pets, the EPA still allows dangerous pesticides to be used in flea collars and other products. Tell the EPA to prohibit the use of these toxic chemicals in pet products.
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Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project: Northern Michigan Teens & KBIC Tribal Youth Protecting Pollinators
Green Lifestyle  (tags: American Indian, Native American, Michigan, Upper Peninsula, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, teens, teenagers, pollinators, pollen, pollinating, butterflies, butterfly, honeybees, environment, native plants, pesticides, Colony Collapse Disorder )

Greg
- 346 days ago - current.com
Video news story on Zaagkii Wings & Seeds Project on Current TV website. I am a TV news reporter who prepared this internet video about project that involves teens protecting pollinators. It was shot at about a dozen locations across northern Michigan.
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U.P. Teens Build Butterfly Houses, Grow 26,000 Indigenous Plants
Green Lifestyle  (tags: American Indian, Native American, youth, Michigan, Upper Peninsula, Baraga, teens, teenagers, pollinators, pollinating, butterflies, butterfly, honeybees, environment, native plants, species extinction, pesticides, Colony Collapse Disorder )

Greg
- 346 days ago - miningjournal.net
Marquette, Michigan newspaper does story on Zaagkii Project Marquette, MI - Northern Michigan teens are continuing their mission to protect pollinators during 2009 by helping butterflies & restoring native plants to areas of the Upper Peninsula.
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Safe Farms, Healthy People [Earthjustice]
Green Lifestyle  (tags: food, pesticides, environment, water )

Janet
- 416 days ago - action.earthjustice.org
When chemical pesticides were first introduced in the 1940s for large scale industrial use, people hailed them as modern miracles of agriculture.These miracles, however, exacted a deadly price.Earthjustice has mounted a legal campaigns to protect...
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10 Foods You Don't Have to Buy Organic
Green Lifestyle  (tags: organics, health, produce, pesticides, shopping )

Social
- 615 days ago - thedailygreen.com
These Fruits and Vegetables Don't Hold on to So Many Pesticides, So You Can Save Your Organic Dollars for the Ones That Do.
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Did Your Shopping List Kill a Songbird?
Green Lifestyle  (tags: birds, blackbirds, pesticides, poisoning, brain damage, nerve damage, South America, Latin America, environment, greenproducts, organic, world, food, garden, healthy, ecosystems, endangered, warning, prevention )

Rebecca
- 624 days ago - nytimes.com
Each year, as we continue to demand out-of-season fruits and vegetables, we ensure that fewer and fewer songbirds will return from migrating south. Pesticides used south of the border are killing them and threaten us. Choose organic and in season.
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Quiksilver's Eco-Friendly Outerwear - Expn
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, green, family, Outerwear, Hemp, Non-Toxic, organic, environment, renewables, pesticides )

TW
- 693 days ago - expn.go.com
Hemp is an economical, renewable resource. It is fast growing, taking about 100-120 days from planting until it is ready. Hemp, as a rule, does not need pesticides, and requires far less water than cotton during growing. âEUR¢ Non-Toxic
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Roses Are Red, Chemicals Are Foul
Green Lifestyle  (tags: eco-friendly, greenliving, flowers, chemicals, pesticides, Environmentalawareness )

Simone
- 750 days ago - plentymag.com
Sending flowers to loved ones is, in one important way, an inherently earth-friendly action: it brings the recipient closer to nature. But not all flower companies are created eco-equal--most spray their crops with heavy loads of pesticides. The nasty
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Homeopathic Preparations Replace Pesticides in Uttar Pradesh, India
Green Lifestyle  (tags: green, eco-friendly, Sustainabililty, ecofriendly, agriculture, pesticides, potatoes, crops )

Santanu
- 812 days ago - in.news.yahoo.com
Sept 25 (ANI): Homeopathic medicines, which were so far being used for curing human diseases, are now being used by farmers in Uttar Pradesh as a substitute for chemical pesticides. Homeopathic pesticides cost much less then chemical based pesticides &...
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