Events and News
GreenCAPE was interviewed on Sunday Mar. 9, 2008 on the Organic Thinking Radio Show WOMR 92.1 in Provincetown.
On Tuesday Mar. 18, 2008 we made a presentation on the chemical body burden and how to reduce your exposure to everyday toxins at the Plymouth Public Library, as part of a "Sustainable Future, Sustainable Living" program.
www.meepi.org/wnv/overkillma.htm
Overkill: Why Pesticide Spraying for West Nile Virus May Cause More Harm Than Good
read this carefully!
LOW MAINTENANCE LANDSCAPING, co-sponsored by GreenCAPE and the Friends of the Dennis Public Library was held on March 11 2006 to a very enthusiastic crowd. Don Bishop of Gardens Are (www.gardensare.com)and Rotisha and Maggie Pipkins of Cape Cod Worm Farm (www.capecodwormfarm.com) described how to make easy and safe gardens. GreenCAPE and Rotisha and Maggie donated door prizes, as well as AGWAY on Route 134, which donated a $25 gift certificate.
In Celebration of Rachel Carson's Birthday, MORE LOW MAINTENANCE LANDSCAPING, the followup held on May 20, again sponsored by GreenCAPE and the Friends of the Dennis Public Library featured Jonathan Say of Natural Landscapes of Cape Cod speaking on RAIN GARDENS--their benefits to your home landscape and the water quality of Cape Cod and Don Bishop of Gardens Are speaking on NATURALIZED LANDSCAPES--using native plants to make an easy care yard without chemicals. (website--www.gardensare.com)
And did you hear that the Olmstead Green project in Brookline on the grounds of the former Boston State Hospital will protect and preserve the land and feature rain gardens? There will be no digging of cellars or paving of wetlands. WOW. 'bout time!
Stop Roadside Spraying!
After years of controlling plant growth by simple cutting of vegetation, NSTAR’s plans to return to the use of hazardous herbicides to control weeds on their easements on Cape Cod. Why risk exposure to toxic chemicals and contamination of our water supply when a safe alternative exists? Herbicides are not regulated to be “safe” and are intentionally toxic by design.
A few of many concerns about the chemicals NSTAR plans to spray: both Arsenal and Escort XP are highly leachable (according to the U.S.D.A.) and therefore can easily leach through the Cape’s sandy soils into our drinking water. The Lymphoma Foundation has noted that a few studies have found an increased risk of lymphoma among people exposed to glyphosate (Accord). Krenite’s ingredient has displayed some mutagenic potential in one out of five tests for chromosome aberrations and mixed results in avian reproductive studies.
Contact NSTAR at 800-592-2000 or 617-424-2000 (corporate office) and let them know you think it is reckless to permit this unhealthy polluting practice atop our vulnerable aquifer when the safer alternative of selective cutting exists.
In the News
Read a recent Boston Globe editorial about chemicals in the environment and our bodies.
The latest Rachel's Newsletter, A NEW WAY TO INHERIT ENVIRONMENTAL HARM, discusses how toxic effects of chemicals might be inhereted without genetic changes.