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Educational Event: The Risks of Using Glyphosate (AKA Roundup) on Marin Public Lands
645 Tamalpais Drive
Corte Madera, California 94925
7:00 PM PT - 10:00 PM PT
Please join us for an informative evening about the risks of using Glyphosate (the main ingredient in Roundup) on Marin public lands. Three presentations will be given, one each by Dr. Don Huber, Dr. Evaggelos Vallianatos, and Maggie Sergio.
Don Huber PhD, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, is an internationally renowned scientist specializing in the study of Glyphosate (the chief ingredient in Roundup) and the detrimental nature of GMOs. He is the author of three books, 84 special publications, 35 experiment station bulletins, 51 book chapters, and 115 journal articles, many of which deal with the problems of using glyphosate and its effects on an area's ecological health.
Evaggelos Vallianatos PhD, author of Poison Spring, worked as an EPA commissioner for 25 years. He saw the agency from the inside, with rising dismay over how pressure from politicians and threats from huge corporations were turning it from the public's watchdog into a "polluter's protection agency." Based on his own experience, the testimony of colleagues, and hundreds of documents collected inside the EPA, Vallianatos reveals how the agency has continually reinforced the chemical-industrial complex. He saw the EPA collapse under pressure from Monsanto and other corporations and allow Glyphosate to be introduced for weed control in agriculture, home gardens and public lands. He also heard the complaints of other EPA officials about the unscrupulous research done to justify introducing Glyphosate, but was basically ordered, along with the other officials, not to stop its introduction.
Maggie Sergio is the retiring Chair of Marin's Integrated Pest Management Committee and Founder of Island Watch Conservation Science. As a conservationist, she has been researching and reporting about a variety of environmental issues, including the impact of rodenticides (rat poisons) on wildlife, the open air testing of experimental pesticides and GMOs in Hawaii, and the little known industry behind the practice of island eradications. Maggie will only speak on Thursday.
The presentations will take place on two different evenings:
Thursday, July 23rd, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Corte Madera Town Center, 770 Tamalpais Drive, Room 201, Corte Madera, CA 94925
Friday, July 24th, 7:00 to 10:00 pm, Sunrise Center, 645 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera, CA 94925
** $10 suggested donation, no one turned away