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The 29th National Pesticide Forum
Sustainable Community: Practical solutions for health and the environment (April 8-9, 2011 - Denver, CO)
- Pesticides 101 (Caroline Cox)
- Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides: Stopping the demise of honeybees (Tom Theobald, James Frazier, PhD, Marygael Meister)
- Genetically Engineered Food: Failed promises and hazardous outcomes (George Kimbrell)
- Health and Science Panel (John Adgate, PhD,
Dana Boyd Barr, PhD,
Christine Parks, PhD,
Changlu Wang, PhD) - Beyond Lists: Where did all those pesticides come from? (Theo Colborn, PhD)
- The Polluters: The making of our chemically altered environment (Ben Ross, PhD)
- Organic Land Management: From lawns to landscapes and beyond (Chip Osborne, Tom Kanatakeniate Cook, Timothy Lee Scott, Rella Abernathy, PhD, Lani Malmberg)
- Organic: United We Stand (Maria Rodale)
Watch videos below or go straight to the Beyond Pesticides' YouTube Channel.
Pesticides 101
Caroline Cox, Beyond Pesticides board member; research director, Center for Environmental Health, Oakland, CA
Conference Welcome
Jay Feldman, executive director, Beyond Pesticides, Washington, DC
Protecting Pollinators from Pesticides: Stopping the demise of honeybees
Tom Theobald, owner, Niwot Honey Farms; founder, Boulder County Beekeepers' Association, Niwot, CO
James Frazier, PhD, professor of entomology, Penn State University, University Park, PA
Marygael Meister, president and founder, Denver Beekeepers' Association, Denver, CO
Jay Feldman (moderator), executive director, Beyond Pesticides, Washington, DC
Genetically Engineered Food: Failed
promises and hazardous outcomes
George Kimbrell, senior attorney, Center for Food Safety, San Francisco, CA
Jay Feldman (moderator), executive director, Beyond Pesticides, Washington, DC
Health and Science Panel
John Adgate, PhD, professor and chair, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO
Dana Boyd Barr, PhD, research professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Christine Parks, PhD, research fellow, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC
Changlu Wang, PhD, extension specialist, Department of Entomology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Routt Reigart, MD (moderator), president, Beyond Pesticides board of directors; professor of pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Beyond Lists: Where did all those
pesticides come from?
Theo Colborn, PhD, president and founder, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX), Paonia, CO
Routt Reigart, MD (moderator), president, Beyond Pesticides board of directors; professor of pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
The Polluters: The making of our chemically
altered environment
Ben Ross, author of The Polluters; president, Disposal Safety, Inc., Washington, DC
Allen Spalt (moderator), Beyond Pesticides board member; board member and founderToxic Free North Carolina, Carrboro, NC
Organic Land Management: From lawns
to landscapes and beyond
Chip Osborne, Beyond Pesticides board member; president, Osborne Organics, Marblehead, MA
Tom Kanatakeniate Cook, director, Slim Buttes Agricultural Development Program, Pine Ridge, Lakota Nation (SD)
Timothy Lee Scott, author, Invasive Plant Medicine, Brattleboro, VT
Rella Abernathy, PhD, integrated pest management coordinator, City of Boulder, CO
Lani Malmberg, Beyond Pesticides board member; director, Ewe4ic Ecological Services, Lander, WY
Organic: United We Stand
Maria Rodale, CEO, Rodale Inc.; co-chair, Rodale Institute; author, Organic Manifesto, Emmaus, PA
Lorna Donaldson (moderator), Beyond Pesticides board
member; founder, Silvertop Institute, Tiptonville, TN