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Winter 2012/2013 (Vol. 32, #4)
- Letter from Washington: EPA Hands the Reins to Industry on Honey Bee Decline
- A is for Apples, Alar, Antibiotics...and A Call to end antibiotic use in apple and pear production, especially organic
- Pediatricians Issue Warnings and Recommendations on Pesticides
- Update: Transforming Government's Approach to Regulating Pesticides, What a Second Obama Term Can Do to Stop the Toxic Treadmill

Fall 2012 (Vol. 32, #3)
- Letter from Washington: Medical Community Takes a Stand on Pesticides
- Biosolids or Biohazards?
- Maintaining a Delicate Balance: Eliminating phosphorus contamination with organic soil management
- Rodenticides, Hazardous to Children, on Their Way Out

Summer 2012 (Vol. 32, #2)
- Letter from Washington: On the 50th Anniversary of Silent Spring, A Call to Action
- Controvery Over Processed Organics
- Back to the Future: Communities doused with pesticides in response to West Nile virus outbreak
- Back to School Guide
- Chemical Watch Factsheet: Indoxacarb

Spring 2012 (Vol. 32, #1)
- Letter from Washington: “Persevere. Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.”
- Do It Yourself Biodiversity
- Will Your Lawn Be Genetically Engineered? Scotts-Miracle Gro’s Roundup-Ready Kentucky bluegrass is coming soon to a store near you
- Groups Take on Crisis in Democracy: Connecticut efforts
- Canada Declares Triclosan Toxic: Beyond Pesticides talks on public radio

Winter 2011-2012 (Vol. 31, #4)
- Letter from Washington: Preserving Biodiversity Is the Key to Sustainability
- Consumer Choice and the Spread of Genetically Engineered Food: Just Label It! Campaign
- Preserving Biodiversity As If Life Depends on It: The Impacts of Federal Policy on Biodiversity
- Groups to EPA: Ban bee-killing pesticide: Agency begins process of reviewing the neonicotinoid pesticide clothianidin

Fall 2011 (Vol. 31, #3)
- Letter from Washington: Beyond Pesticides at 30 years: Successes and Challenges
- The Real Story on the Affordability of Organic Food AND Eating Organic Food on a Budget
- Dear Consumer: Herbicides Kill Trees! EPA’s conditional registrations continue to cause harm
- ChemicalWatch Factsheet: Aminopyralid
- A Remembrance: Creating a legacy for protecting health and the environment

Summer 2011 (Vol. 31, #2)
- Letter from Washington: Support for Organic High as the Critics Keep Coming
- Threatened Waters: Congressional assault on our environmental laws
- Antibiotics in Fruit Production: A challenge to organic integrity
- Poisoned Golf: A groundskeeper speaks out on contamination and poisoning
- Genetically Engineered Food: Failed promises and hazardous outcomes

Spring 2011 (Vol. 31, #1)
- Letter from Washington: At the Crossroads of Sustainability: Choices
- Ready or Not, Genetically Engineered Crops Explode on Market: USDA allows new GE crops over objections of growers, environmentalists, manufacturers, and retailers
- Organic Q&A with the Rodale Institute: If you do one thing to feed the world, keep us safe and heal the planet: Demand Organic
- Protecting Pollinators: Stopping the Demise of Bees

Winter 2010-11 (Vol. 30, #4)
- Letter from Washington: Managing Bed Bugs. . .The Challenge Continues
- Keeping Organic Strong How you can influence organic standards
- Got Bed Bugs? Don’t Panic. Bed bugs do not transmit disease and can be controlled without toxic pesticides
- Bed Bug Policy Regulatory Decisions, Congressional Intervention and the Rise of Bed Bugs
- Pesticide Resistance
- ChemWatch Factsheet: Propoxur

Fall 2010 (Vol. 30, #3)
- Letter from Washington: Bed Bug Frenzy
- Sowing Seeds for an Organic Future The Organic Foods Production Act at Twenty Years Old by Michael Sligh
- Reproductive Problems Peak with Pesticide Exposure Seasonal water contamination studied by Paul Winchester, MD
- ChemWatch Factsheet: Oil of Lemon Eucalyptus

Summer 2010 (Vol. 30, #2)
- Letter from Washington: New Beyond Pesticides Databases Support Toxic-Free
- Organic Food: Eating with a Conscience For you, workers and the environment
- Wide Range of Diseases Linked to Pesticides Database supports policy shift from risk to alternatives assessment
- Beyond Slime The least-toxic control of slugs and snails

Spring 2010 (Vol. 30, #1)
- Letter from Washington: Environmental Disaster Calls for Precautionary Policy
- Managing Germs Without Toxic Chemicals: Taking on triclosan with growing momentum
- Checking Our Organic Coordinates: Where have we been and where we need to go from here
- Maintaining Organic Integrity: 2010 USDA Inspector General audit spurs improvements
- Local AND (Not Versus) Organic
- Grow Your Own Organic Food: Organic gardening guide

Winter 2009-2010 (Vol. 29, #4)
- Letter from Washington: Applying Organic Law to the Protection of Children and Toxics Policy Reform
- Schooling Without Pesticides: Federal bill suspends hazardous pesticide use, defines safe management practices
- The School Environment Protection Act of 2009: Myths and Facts
- Growing an Organic Food System: One farmer’s experience converting from a chemical-intensive to organic dairy operation

Fall 2009 (Vol. 29, #3)
- Letter from Washington: A Seat at the Obama Organic Table
- Schooling of State Pesticide Laws: 2010 Update. The fourth edition of the report originally released in 1998
- Backyard Beekeeping: Providing pollinator habitat one yard at a time.

Summer 2009 (Vol. 29, #2)
- Putting “Progress” Back In Progressive: The route to social justice, fair food and a sustainable environment. by Jim Hightower
- Social Justice and Food Production: Winning self-determination and justice for farmworkers. by Baldemar Velasquez
- A Tribute to Shelley Davis: A Celebration of Life, A Commitment to Keep Fighting for Farmworker Justice
- Groups File Petition to FDA to Ban triclosan

Spring 2009 (Vol. 29, #1)
- Transforming Government's Approach to Regulating Pesticides

Winter 2008-2009 (Vol. 28, #4)
- Taking Toxics Out of Health Care

Fall 2008 (Vol. 28, #3)
- Letter from Washington: Chemical Sensitivity Demands Accomodation for Humans and Bees
- Naming the 'Cides That Poison and Kill...Revisited
- Pollinators and Pesticides: Escalating crisis demands action
- Imidacloprid
- Chemical Sensitivity and the ADA

Summer 2008 (Vol. 28, #2)
- Making Sure Green Consumer Claims are Truthful
- Common Antibacterial Chemical triclosan Raises Public Safety Concerns
- Farmworker Justice and Our Healthy Future, by Arturo Rodriguez
- Silent Snow: The Unimaginable Impact of Toxic Chemical Use, by Marla Cone
- Remembering Erik Jansson

Spring 2008 (Vol. 28, #1)
- Letter from Washington: Ignoring the (Startling) Facts
- Clearing the Air of Toxic Mothball Repellents
- Wood Preservatives Avoid the Axe
- Pesticides that Disrupt Endocrine System Still Unregulated by EPA | uncited version
- Pesticides Trigger Parkinson's Disease, by Kagan Owens | uncited version

Winter 2007-08 (Vol. 27, #4)
- Letter from Washington: Danger at (Really) Low Dose
- Grounding out Grubs: Managing grubs with prevention and least-toxic strategies
- How Safe is Your Bait?: Pesticides may be labeled as "nonvolatile," but still release poisons into the air
- Facing Scientific Realities, Debunking the "Dose Makes the Poison" Myth: The big picture - linking pesticide science and health effects, by Warren Porter, Ph.D.

Fall 2007 (Vol. 27, #3)
- Letter from Washington
- Compost is the Key to Successful Plant Management
- Pesticides and Pets: What you should know to keep your pets safe
- Replacing Poisons with Precaution in Pest Management: The vision driving the precautionary principle, by Debbie Raphael
- A Personal Story and the Change that Followed: Turning a poisoning incident into a precautionary policy, by Robina Suwol

Summer 2007 (Vol. 27, #2)
- Ending Toxic Dependency: The State of IPM. State IPM laws allow broad dependency on toxic pesticides; four states call for pesticide reduction and alternatives
- Review: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (A book by Barbara Kingsolver, Stephen Hopp and Camille Kingsolver)

Spring 2007 (Vol. 27, #1)
- Climate Change, Plant Biology and Public Health: Impacts of elevated temperature and carbon dioxide on agriculture and beyond by Lewis Ziska, Ph.D.
- The Organic Farming Response to Climate Change: One of the most powerful tools in fighting global warming sequesters atmospheric carbon, data suggests a new worldwide urgency for the transition from chemical to organic agriculture by Paul Hepperly, Ph.D.
- Fighting Fumigation: How two renters fought the fumigation of their townhome community by Ron & Anna Winship
- Nanotechnology’s Invisible Threat by Jennifer Sass, Ph.D.
- Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma (A book by Michael Pollan)

Winter 2006-07 (Vol. 26, #4)
- Silent Summer: Georgia community organizes against pesticide manufacturing waste by Cathy Strong
- Bed Bugs: Back with a Vengeance. Detection, prevention and least toxic control of bed bugs
- Fungi to the Rescue: Biopesticide derived from mold has promise as a greener method for eradicating unwanted insects by Paul Stamets
- The Future of Organics: Organic values, farmer enthusiasm, rural development and consumer leadership by George Siemon

Fall 2006 (Vol. 26, #3)
- In Appreciation: John Bell Clark, 1937 - 2006: Stop dignifying the myth of pesticide benefits
- Beyond Pesticides Pays Tribute to Pesticide Reformers: Dragonfly Awards Honor Community-Based Activism, Scientific Inquiry and Protective Policy

Summer 2006 (Vol. 26, #2)
- Rodents Teach Lesson of Failed Chemical Controls: City officials gather to learn new approaches to
rodent management less dependent on chemicals, more focused on habitat reduction
- Pesticides and Playing Fields: Are we unintentionally harming our children?
- Scotts Poisons the Wrong Family: A family that sought to avoid lawn chemicals had its yard mistakenly treated by Scotts Lawn Service By Robert H. Ryan
- Managing West Nile Virus Without Poisoning People: Communities choose safer, more effective
prevention approaches
- Sublethal Effects of Exposure to Cholinesterase-lnhibiting Pesticides: Humans and vertebrate wildlife By Katharine C. Parsons, Stephanie R. Schmidt, Gina Tarbill, Kelley R. Tucker