Now Available: Videos to Promote Healthy Communities - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog (Beyond Pesticides, May 11, 2016) Beyond Pesticides is pleased to announce that videos are now available from Cultivating Community and Environmental Health: Models for sustainable and organic strategies to protect ecosystems, pollinators and waterways, the 34th National Pesticide Forum! The videos cover the range of topics that were discussed at the Forum and include keynote speeches, panel discussions, and workshops. This year’s forum focused on the adoption of policies to protect human health and the environment, and organic land and building management strategies. Beyond Pesticides encourages activists, community leaders, scientists, and policy makers to attend its annual National Pesticide Forum in person to get together, share information, and strategize create communities that are healthy and free of toxic pesticides. For those who are unable to attend in person, these videos expand the incredible knowledge of the experts to the broader public to help inspire and inform community action. Watch the videos here. You can access the playlist, which includes all of the available videos of the 2016 forum, as well as previous years, on Beyond Pesticides’ YouTube page. Notable presentations include: Pollinators, Biodiversity and Scientific Integrity, by Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D. Dr. Lundgren is an agroecologist, director of ECDYSIS Foundation, and […]

Now Available: Videos to Promote Healthy Communities #Pesticides #Health #Environment #Organic #34npf

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We're talkin' ticks and ecological pest management with Dr. Daniel Sonenshine! #34NPF

Tao Orion talks soil health and biodiversity in our afternoon workshops. #biodiversity #34NPF

Portland City Councilmember @jonhinck talks organizing for local policy change. #34NPF

For leadership, consumer education, & #MakingtheSwitch, Dragonfly Award winner, @EldredgeLumber!! #34NPF

Congratulations U.S. Representative @chelliepingree, Dragonfly Award winner! Thank you for all you've done! #34NPF

Montogmery Co. councilmember @georgeleventhal talks about local action & policy change #34NPF @SafeGrowMC

Congratulations to Dragonfly Award recipient, Heather Spalding of @MOFGA!! #34NPF

Master beekeeper, Erin MacGregor talking about pollinators and pesticides. #beeprotective #34NPF

Time to breakout into workshops for more in-depth discussions!! #34NPF

"Heal the soil, and you will solve the bee problem." -Dr. @BugLundgren #34NPF #pollinators #beeprotective

"Without filling the need for those alternatives, we're not moving to toward real solutions." Dr. Lundgren #34NPF

Next up, Dr. @BugLundgren! #whistleblower #scientificintegrity #34NPF

Dr. Aaron Blair explains the scientific basis for @WHOs IARC classifying glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. #34NPF

Our Bee-yond Pesticides board president, Routt Reigart, is spreading the message about pollinators! #34NPF

Good morning & welcome back to the 2nd day of the National Pesticide Forum!! #34NPF

Author @kristinohlson talks about microorganisms & closes out Friday night's festivities! #34NPF #TheSoilWillSaveUs

A Sense of Wonder, the story of Rachel Carson, being performed live at #34NPF

#34NPF, Cultivating Community and Environmental Health is kicking off tonight in Portland, Maine.

#34NPF attendees on our afternoon tour of Portland, ME. First stop: the @USouthernMaine food forest!

Join us for the 34th National Pesticide Forum in South Portland, ME! #34NPF

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Watch the Promo Video for the 34th National Pesticide Forum in Portland, ME!#Health #Pesticides #34npf

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