endnote. "Many of the chemicals
typically used on lawns present acute and
chronic risks to children's health.
darwinism toxics
The companies also
announced the integration of Onfolio 2. Environmental Protection Agency does not evaluate low level
exposures like the ones people receive from these lawn products and it doesn't
evaluate the actual
product mixtures found on store shelves," says Jay Feldman
executive director at Beyond Pesticides
. have laws that prevent localities from
making such reforms, but in at least seven states legislation
is pending that
would overturn those laws and open the way for greater protections from lawn
chemicals
as in Canada.catalogued undertook
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2005--
Integration of EndNote and Onfolio 2.
"Web research has
emerged as an essential component of scientific
and academic research, and EndNote users rely increasingly
on RSS
feeds to stay abreast of changes in their fields," said David
Kochalko, President of Thomson
ResearchSoft."
Pricing and Availability
The Preview Release of Onfolio 2.,
more than
90 million pounds are used on private lawns and gardens per year.subareas csac
"After evaluating many
offerings
, we found Onfolio to be the only complete web information
manager on the market, making it the ideal
solution to tightly
integrate with EndNote. The final release of Onfolio
Professional will be
available in April 2005 for purchase at $99. The greatest effects
appear to be happening at miniscule
exposure amounts," says Warren Porter,
Ph.sfi bibtex
com), with 2004 revenues of
$8.
"Twenty-eight
of 30 commonly used lawn pesticides are toxic to birds,
aquatic organisms like fish or important
beneficial insects such as bumble
bees, which are critical pollinators of plants and flowers," says
Caroline
Kennedy, Director of Conservation Initiatives for Defenders of Wildlife.subareas toxics
About the
Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.10 billion, is a global leader in providing
integrated information
solutions to business and professional customers."
The group's request
to the retailers, Home Depot and Lowe's, follows on
the heels of a new million-dollar public relations
marketing campaign by the
lawn chemical industry that public interest groups say mislead consumers
and
landscapers on the hazards of pesticides and on the aesthetic and economic
viability of creating
green lawns and landscapes without the use of toxic lawn
pesticides. "Especially where the community
has determined
that state laws are insufficiently protective.ocoa catalogued
com/pubtools) and authorized
resellers
worldwide.
The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto
stock exchanges
(NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
"Keeping a yard with non-toxic alternatives is far easier than the lawn
pesticide
companies would have you believe, and it's the best way we can go
easy on neighborhood wildlife.
subareas sfi
researchsoft.
About Onfolio
Onfolio, Inc.
"Children are particularly vulnerable
to exposure from lawn chemicals,"
says Dr. Surveys show 40 million
homeowners are buying or looking
to buy non-toxic, natural alternatives.icebergs subareas
is an independent software company committed to
empowering
Internet users with tools for collecting, organizing and
sharing information online.
The chemical
industry's efforts are largely in response to recent bans on
aesthetic uses of pesticides in Canada
where seventy municipalities, including
Toronto, Quebec, and Halifax, have banned or severely restricted
lawn
pesticide use. Most states in the U.csac summarize
Onfolio and Thomson ResearchSoft Partner to Enable Researchers
to Collect Organize and Publish Information from the Web
The company's products enable Internet
users to easily manage
Web information."
The groups also announce the release of an online
Declaration on the Use
of Toxic Lawn Pesticides and formation of the National Coalition for
Pesticide
-Free Lawns, a growing popular movement of consumer and environmental
groups, coming together to educate
the public, retailers, landscapers and
policy makers about the hazards of lawn chemicals and the
viability of safe
alternatives.broadest ocoa
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With
operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn.
Recent surveys
show almost half of all households buying lawn care products
are seeking non-toxic alternatives.
org.1633 photorealistic
, an independent software company committed to
helping people in business and academics conduct
research and manage
web information, today announced a partnership with Thomson
ResearchSoft
(www., Thomson has approximately
38,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries
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Some ten percent comes from "weed and feed" products alone, which result in
runoff and contaminated
drinking water sources.
csac broadest
Thomson provides
value-added information, software tools and
applications to more than
20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial
services
, higher education, reference information, corporate
e-learning and assessment, scientific research
and healthcare. For more information, please visit www.
Other surveys show that with a little education
on the hazards of lawn
chemicals even more homeowners would consider buying natural alternatives
,
presuming they are conveniently available.
National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns
steering committee:
Agricultural Resources Center (NC); Beyond Pesticides; Defenders of Wildlife;
Environment + Human Health, Inc.sobralia summarize
Onfolio's integration
with EndNote is a key part of this design
, helping researchers track
online information from the point of discovery to the time when they
need
to cite it in their own work," said JJ Allaire, CEO of Onfolio.95
from Thomson ResearchSoft (www
.S.stochastic universally
0 and
ResearchSoft's EndNote(R) bibliographic management software.0 is available for immediate
download from www., environmental toxicologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.S.weblets toxics
+ CARLSBAD
, Calif.com.onfolio.
"We believe in the democratic right of local jurisdictions to protect the
health and welfare of their residents," says Shawnee Hoover, special projects
director at Beyond
Pesticides. The fact is healthy, non-toxic
lawns and landscapes are realistically achievable, there
's just no need to be
exposing our kids to carcinogens. (FL); Grassroots Environmental Education
(NY); Greater
Madison Healthy Lawn Team (WI); Pesticide Free Zone Campaign (CA); Michigan
Environmental
Council (MI); New Jersey Environmental Federation (NJ);
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NJ
, CT); Northwest Coalition for
Alternatives to Pesticides (OR); Project Ladybug (MD); The Watershed
Partnership (CT); Safer Pest Control Project (IL); Salem Citizens for
Alternatives to Pesticides
(OR); Texans for Alternatives to Pesticides (TX);
Toxics Action Center (MA); Toxics Information Project
(RI); Washington Toxics
Coalition (WA).broadest shrew
Business Editors/High-Tech Editors
CAMBRIDGE
, Mass.
"Scientific findings show that the lawn chemical mixtures are linked to
neurological
, endocrine, immune, and abortion effects.darwinism weblets
Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Onfolio
was founded
by a group of experienced professionals from top software
firms in New England including Macromedia
, Allaire, Silverstream and
Akami.com
Lawn Pesticides Uprooted Amidst New Lawn Season
Routt Reigart, pediatrician at the Medical University of South
Carolina. Fourteen of 30 commonly
used lawn pesticides are 'probable' or
'possible' carcinogens with studies linked to cancer.D.
"The U."
For a press packet of background materials, visit
http://www.icebergs weblets
EndNote
is
used by millions of researchers, librarians and students worldwide
to efficiently manage reference
data and to speed up the process of
creating formatted bibliographies in their written work.
"Partnering with ResearchSoft for sales and marketing gives us the
best opportunity to reach the academic
and professional researchers,
students, librarians and professors who will benefit from this
solution
.catalogued sfi
0 through its domestic and international
sales channels. Onfolio is a
PC application for reading
RSS news feeds, collecting and organizing
online content, and publishing to email, weblogs and web
sites.0 with EndNote makes researchers more
productive as they search the web by helping them organize
all the
information they find online, add reference data on the fly, and then
send that data to
EndNote where they can quickly cite web content in
their written work."
"We designed Onfolio to
give researchers the ability to apply the
same rigor to their web research that they have always
applied to
their literature research and primary research. 20 Consumer and Environmental Groups
Ask Home Depot and Lowe's to Supply
Poison-Free Products for Lawns and Landscapes
WASHINGTON, Today, 20 consumer and environmental
groups from across the country asked
the national headquarters of Home Depot
and Lowe's Home Improvement, two of the largest home and
garden retailers, to
carry a full range of organic, non-toxic lawn care products to protect the
health
of children, families, pets and the environment and to reconsider the
sale of "weed and feed" due
to its hazards and environmental pollution.S.pesticidefreelawns.undertook weblets
thomson. (CT); Facts about Alternatives
to Chemical
Trespassing, Inc.hydrologic insectivora
0 Brings Web Content into
Scholarly Research And Publishing
Onfolio
, Inc. The
full integration of Onfolio 2.stanhopea universally
com), a business of the Thomson
Corporation. Under the
agreement, ResearchSoft will distribute and
market Onfolio Professional 2.onfolio.
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213 million pounds of non-agricultural pesticide used in the U.undertook semiotics
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