Monday, March 12, 2012

Support Organic Management of Town Property

These lovely little blue flowers are coming up in front of Chez Sven. I used the cultivator to help them along right before Saturday's snowstorm, hard to believe with the thermometer hitting 60+ today! Tomorrow evening there's a Selectmen's meeting at the Wellfleet Library. Please seize this opportunity to let your voice be heard. Tell our Selectmen to choose organic land management for town property. Unfortunately, this item is towards the end of the meeting. If you are unable to attend, let the Select Board know what you think via email on bos AT wellfleet-ma.gov. That's what I just did. Here's my letter:

"I run a green B&B and was in charge of last year’s Green Sub-Committee of the Econ. Dev. Commission. Since I am not in Wellfleet tomorrow, I’m writing to urge you to adopt the Organic Land Management Policy for town property. This choice would help encourage townspeople to go organic and limit their use of herbicides, which pollute our sole-source aquifer. Every day new studies appear showing toxic chemicals in the environment may be responsible for the multitude of chronic illnesses people came to accept as normal during the last decades of the 20th century. For instance, the weed killer glyphosate is now believed to cause endocrine disruption in the developing fetus. Endocrine disruption may also be responsible for the dramatic increase in diabetes and the reproductive problems faced by young people of child-bearing age. Organophosphates may increase the risk of ADHD in children. Your choice to go organic will help protect Wellfleetians and raise their awareness on this very important issue. Thank you."

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Living Large · 675 weeks ago

Keep up the good work. These issues are important.
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Very good letter! I hope they choose to go with the organic land management. It all tends to have an effect on other things- whether we like it or not. On another topic, remember you were talking about saving the dolphins- I just read a disturbing (but very real) post about others who are working just as hard to harm dolphins- it is sooo sad. And the sad thing, in doing so- they also hurt humans- so everything inter relates. You can read the post I read at http://mindfiction.blogspot.com/2012/03/waves-of-...
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2 replies · active 675 weeks ago
Thanks, Connie. I will check out your post. I agree on everything being interrelated!
I wrote a comment to the writer of this post, about The Cove, a documentary on this subject. It was very hard to watch, but it's good word is getting out.
I love those little blue flowers. The link to email the board of Selectmen did not work for me. Of course I don't live in Wellfleet, but I'm nearby. Mass. Audubon's newest quarterly journal Sanctuary- entitled "And No Birds Sing" has some fantastic articles about these chemicals and others, at fifty years since Silent Spring. I recommend it.
1 reply · active 675 weeks ago
Thanks, Janet. Will pick one up. Also, I fixed the email address. Thank you for pointing that out.
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Heartsease · 674 weeks ago

So why does Mass. Audubon continue to use pesticides in Wellfleet??
2 replies · active 674 weeks ago
Good question. Perhaps Janet can answer?
Gosh, I'm just a member there. I don't have the answer, or any knowledge about pesticide use there. I would suggest asking at the sanctuary, or calling them at 508-349-2615.
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Heartsease · 673 weeks ago

No need to call or ask-they def. use. Very disappointing because other users point to Audubon to justify their own use of pesticides. If they really wanted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, Audubon could make a concerted effort to halt their own use of pesticides. Just because the impacts on wildlife aren't obvious, doesn't mean they're nonexistent. Research of pesticide effects on wildlife abounds.

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