The
27th National Pesticide Forum
Bridge
to an Organic Future: Opportunities for health and the environment
Thank
you to everyone who attended Bridge
to an Organic Future: Opportunities for health and the environment, the 27th National Pesticide Forum, April 3-4, 2009 at the Century Center
in Carrboro, NC and helped make it such a great
success! If
you attended, please consider completing the Forum evaluation
form.
Powerpoint presenations (in Adobe Acrobat) and streaming video for select sessions are available. More to be added soon.
Friday, April 3
- 1:00-4:00pm - Piedmont Biofuels Farm Tour
- 6:00-7:15pm - Pesticides, Alternatives and Organizing: The Basics. Caroline Cox and Fawn Pattison
- 7:00-8:00pm - Reception and Welcome. Mayor Mark Chilton and Allen Spalt
- 8:00-9:00pm - Poisoned Profits: The Toxic Assault on Our Children (VIDEO). Philip and Alice Shabecoff
Saturday, April 4
- 8:30-9:00am - Welcome. Jay Feldman and Fawn Pattison
- 9:00-10:15am - Growing a Fair, Local, Organic Food System (VIDEO). Jim Riddle, Neill Lindley (PPT), Sandi Kronick (PPT), Sally Lee (PPT) and Tes Thraves (PPT)
- 10:45am-12:15pm
- Workshops 1
- Follow-Up Market Tour and In-Depth Organic Discussion. Anne Everitt and panelists
- Schools and Daycare: Creating a healthy learning environment. Kagan Owens, Billie Karel, Jerry Jochim (PPT) and Dawn Gouge (PPT)
- Protecting Waterways, Health and the Environment. Elaine Chiosso, Doug Harned (PPT), Kathy Dolan (PPT) and Nichelle Harriott
- Farmworker Organizing. Francisco Risso, Gustavo Aguirre and Margaret Reeves
- 12:15-1:45pm - Lunch presentation: Social Justice and Food Production (VIDEO). Baldemar Velasquez
- 1:45-3:00pm - Cutting Edge Pesticide Science (VIDEO). Warren Porter, Freya Kamel (PPT), Chensheng Lu PPT) and Tom Arcury (PPT)
- 3:30-5:00pm -
Workshops 2
- Cutting Edge Pesticide Science: In-depth discussion. Paula Dinerstein and panelists
- Organic Land Management: Lawns, gardens and open spaces (VIDEO). Chip Osborne, Lani Malmberg and Brett Ramey
- Progressive Policies: Restricting toxics and advancing organics. Jay Feldman, Margaret Reeves, Fawn Pattison, Jim Riddle and Roland McReynolds
- Farmworker Health Training. Jose Manuel Guzman, Janeth Tapia, Griselda Alonso-Rojas and Ana Pardo
- 7:30-8:30pm -
Putting "Progress" Back In Progressive: The route to social
justice, fair
food and a sustainable environment (VIDEO). Jim Hightower
The full conference program is now available to read online. The program is also available in Spanish.
Co-sponsoring
Organizations:
The
Forum is convened by Beyond Pesticides and Toxic
Free NC. Co-sponsoring organizations include: Carolina
Farm Stewardship Association, Haw
River Assembly, North
Carolina Coastal Federation, North
Carolina Rural Communities Assistance Project, Piedmont
Environmental Alliance, Rural
Advancement Foundation International – USA, Slow
Food Triangle, Student
Action with Farmworkers, UNC Alianza, UNC
Environmental Law Project, UNC
Environmental Science and Engineering Student Organization.
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.
