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Webinar Series – Next Session July 23, 2013!
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School Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Protecting Kids from
Pests and Pesticides
July 23,
2013 3:00 PM EDT
(12:00 Noon
PDT) Register Now
Pests
and pesticides pose risks to the nearly 60 million children and staff who spend
considerable periods of time in our nation's schools. EPA recommends that
schools use an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach to reduce pesticide
exposure in schools. Implementing IPM can help address the economic and health
related issues caused by pests and pesticides. Please join us for this free
webinar to:
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Gain knowledge about the basics of school IPM,
the potential health, environmental and economic benefits, and what it takes to
put IPM into practice.
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Discover why IPM is an important component of
clean, green and healthy schools that promotes healthy learning environments
and academic achievement.
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Learn about cost-effective steps you can take to
manage pests, reduce pesticide use, and enhance environmental health in and
around your schools.
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Hear examples of how schools/school districts
have successfully implemented and institutionalized comprehensive IPM programs
and practices in their districts.
Featured
presenters:
Brad Miller, US EPA/Office of
Pesticide Programs
Brad has more than 20 years of
work experience in the Pest Management Industry. He spent 9 years in the
Countries of Kuwait and Afghanistan, performing Integrated Pest Management work
for the DoD. He also has 11 years of work experience in the private sector
performing Commercial Pest Management in Schools, Day Cares, Restaurants,
Grocery stores, and other commercial settings. Brad currently works for EPA’s
Center of Expertise for School IPM.
Mark R Hardin, IPM Specialist,
Howard County Public School System in Howard County, Maryland
Mark has been involved in
providing IPM in sensitive environments for more than 20 years. Mark served as
an entomologist and IPM coordinator for the Horticulture Division of the
Smithsonian Institution for 12 years where he worked in all areas of pest
management from protection of artifacts to plant and turf pest control.
He has also had work experience in a wide range of pest control projects
including mosquito abatement, landscape IPM, urban pest management, and gypsy moth
quarantine programs.
Seth Miller, Director of
Operations, Westville School District in Westville, Illinois
Seth is Assistant Superintendent
at Westville School District #2 in rural central Illinois. Westville School
District has been practicing integrated pest management (IPM) since the summer
of 2009. Westville schools were recognized by the EPA for leadership in
providing a safe learning environment through the use of IPM in 2010 and were
designated as an IPM Innovator in 2012 for being part of the National School
IPM Demonstration Project.
Register for this session today! You’ll receive a
certificate of completion for your participation in each webinar.
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For more information about EPA’s School IPM program and our Strategic
and Implementation Plans visit http://www.epa.gov/pestwise/ipminschools.
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Subscribe to our mailing list to receive details and registration
reminders for other Sensible Steps Webinars.
Please
share this message with your school environmental health colleagues and
contacts!
To join or leave this listserv, visit the School IPM WWW
site at http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/
and follow the instructions under "School IPM Listserv."
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