The 30th National Pesticide Forum
Healthy Communities:
Green solutions for safe environments
Yale University, New Haven, CT
School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
March 30-31, 2012
The 30th National Pesticide Forum, Healthy Communities: Green solutions for safe environments, will be held March 30-31, 2012 (Friday evening and all day Saturday) at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The conference will focus on organic landcare, urban/ suburban pesticide use, organic food, and protective national, state, and local policies.
Registration: Register online.
Student: $15
Grassroots activist/member: $35
Non-member: $75
Business: $175
Just added
Senator Ed Meyer was recently elected to his third term as a Connecticut State Senator. He has introduced a bill in the legislature that would overturn the Connecticut's pesticide preemption law to allow local communities to enact pesticide restrictions that are more stringent than the state law. He also sponsored the bill, now law, that banned pesticides on school grounds, K-8.
Robert Deschak is a Core Member of the New York City Beekeepers Association, a group of beekeepers, bee enthusiasts, and honey lovers who live, work and pollinate in New York City. NYCBA was central to overturning the policy that had banned beekeeping in the city. Mr. Deschak is a Core Member of the group and helps run the monthly meetings, organizes special events, and has his own hives atop a convent in the Bronx.
Rodger Phillips is the Hartford Food System's (HFS) urban farmer. Grow Hartford, a project of HFS, harvests thousands of pounds of organic fruits and vegetables at three different sites in Hartford. Most of this produce is donated to social service agencies in the city, but a portion is available for sale to low-income households through a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) membership.
See full speaker list.
Organizers
The conference is convened by Beyond Pesticides, Environment and Human Health, Inc., and the Watershed Partnership, Inc., and co-sponsored by Audubon Connecticut, CATA (Farmworker Support Committee), Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Common Ground, Connecticut Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA), Ecological Health Association, Inc., Grassroots Environmental Education, Green Decade/Newton,
GreenCape, Hartford Food System, LEAH Collective, NOFA Massachusetts Chapter, Northern New Jersey Safe Yards Alliance, Rivers Alliance of Connecticut,
Safelawns.org,
Sierra Club-Connecticut Chapter,
Toxics Action Center, and Yale Student Environmental Coalition. Contact us if your organization is interested in co-sponsoring this event.
Conference site
Sessions will be held in the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies' Kroon Hall. It is a truly sustainable building: a showcase of the latest developments in green building technology, a healthy and supportive environment for work and study, and a beautiful building that actively connects students, faculty, staff, and visitors with the natural world.
Watch videos from the 29th National Pesticide Forum. We would like to thank everyone who was able to be a part of Sustainable Community: Practical solutions for health and the environment, the 29th National Pesticide Forum. We believe the opportunity to get together and share information and strategy is vital to public health and environmental protection, and we are glad that so many people were part of this important gathering.
THANK YOU! The generosity of our sponsors helps make conferences 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.
