19th National Pesticide Forum, Boulder CO

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Mags USA

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides

(NCAMP) will be hosting our 19th National Pesticide Forum, Beyond

Pesticides: Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy Children, on May 18-20, 2001 in

Boulder, Colorado.

The Forum will focus on adopting alternative practices and policies to

protect children from the toxic hazards of pesticides, as well as

ecological management of open space. The conference is an important

opportunity for people from across the country to get together, share

the latest information, meet with scientists and policy makers, and

discuss local, statewide and national strategies on pesticides and

alternatives.

Helen Caldicott, MD will be a keynote speaker. Other featured speakers

include Theo Colburn, Ph.D., Pimentel, Ph.D., O'Brien, and

Doris Rapp, MD.

Brochures and registration forms will be mailed this winter. Contact

Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP for more information

at 202-543-5450, or visit our website at

<A HREF= " http://www.beyondpesticides.org " >http://www.beyondpesticides.org</A>.

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Helen Caldicott, M.D. - The single most articulate and passionate

advocate of citizen action to protect the environment, Dr. Caldicott has

devoted the last 25 years to an international campaign to educate the

public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age, and the necessary

changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. While

living

in the United States from 1977 to 1986, she founded the Physicians for

Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors with a strong

record of working to prevent environmental illnesses. Dr. Caldicott is

the

author of " If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal the Earth " (1992) and

" A

Desperate Passion " (1996).

Theo Colborn, Ph.D. - Dr. Colborn is a zoologist, senior scientist,

and

director of the Wildlife and Contaminants project at the World Wildlife

Fund (WWF). Her research on endocrine disrupters led to her

co-authorship

of Our Stolen Future (1996). This book has shocked the public in much

the

same way as Carson's Silent Spring. It provides research evidence

suggesting that human-made chemicals in the environment, including

pesticides, are disrupting the endocrine systems of animals, and most

likely those of humans, to cause severe reproductive problems.

Pimentel, Ph.D. - Dr. Pimentel is one of the nation's foremost

academic experts on population ecology, the ecological and economic

aspects

of pest control, soil and water conservation, and natural resource

management and environmental policy. After serving four years as

Director

of the U.S. Public Health Service Tropical Research Laboratory in Puerto

Rico, Professor Pimentel returned to Cornell University to join the

faculty

of the Department of Entomology and Limnology. Nationally,

Pimentel

served in the Office of the President as the Consulting Ecologist on

White

House Staff from 1969 to 1970, and as Chairman of the Environmental

Studies

Board in the National Academy of Sciences.

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