How to Make Safe Lawn Care Choices for Your Children, Your Pets & Yourself: Video

Exposure to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and excess nitrogen can negatively effect human health. In this webinar, Patti Wood and Lauren Krueger talk about how conventional lawn fertilizers containing biosolids and slow-release fertilizers, which also contain PFAS as well as high levels of nitrogen are endangering our fresh water supply--and what you can do about it.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Patricia (Patti) Wood is founder and executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education. A Visiting Scholar at Adelphi University, Ms. Wood lectures on the environment and related health issues in the College of Nursing and Public Health. Ms. Wood is the author of “Helping to Heal,” a book for parents of children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses and co-host of Green Street, a NYC-based weekly radio show. She is a contributing author of “Earth Matters,” a weekly newspaper column in the Blank Slate newspaper chain, and guest lecturer at Stony Brook University and Hostos Community College in New York City.

Lauren Krueger is the Project Coordinator at Long Island Water, Communications and Social Media Director for Grassroots Environmental Education, and Associate Producer for the Green Street radio show and podcast on WBAI FM. Lauren is a climate activist who volunteers with Dayenu, Food & Water Watch, and NY Renews. She is the founder of the South Shore Community Composting Collective.