TURF INDUSTRY NEWS
NALP Partners with Houzz to Connect Homeowners and Industry Pros Te National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) partnered with Houzz, the online platform for home renovation and design, to connect Houzz’s community of more than 40 million monthly unique users with knowledgeable green industry professionals. Te partnership with Houzz includes national visibility and discounts for landscape professionals. “We are thrilled to partner with Houzz, which is an
incredibly useful site for millions of consumers looking to improve their indoor and outdoor living spaces,” said Sabeena Hickman, NALP CEO. “We are also excited by the national recognition we can bring to our members’ award winning projects and by the opportunity to help members increase their visibility and promote their professionalism.” For more information go to https://www.
landscapeprofessionals.org.
NIOSH, OSHA Update Heat Safety App for Outdoor Workers Te Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), along with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated and redesigned its Heat Safety Tool, an app developed to help workers stay safe when working outdoors in hot weather. Te OSHA-NIOSH Heat Safety Tool mobile app, available for iOS and Android devices, determines heat index values—a measure for how hot it feels—based on temperature and humidity. Te free app uses the device’s geolocation capabilities to pull temperature and humidity data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellites to determine the heat index. Te app shows the current risk level—minimal, low, moderate, high or extreme—and forecasts the hourly heat index throughout the entire workday giving employers information they can use to adjust the work environment as needed to protect workers.
Update on California Glyphosate Notice According to a recent report from California, Glyphosate (CAS No. 1071-83-6) has been listed under Proposition 65, effective July 7, 2017, as known by the state to cause cancer. Te listing notice was first posted on March 28, but was stayed due to a suit by Monsanto. Monsanto’s appeal was unsuccessful in the trial court. Although the case has been further appealed, no stay of the listing has been granted.
TPI Turf News September/October 2017
New Jersey and New York HTHK Projects Dedicated Project EverGreen formally dedicated two of its most recent Healthy Turf. Healthy Kids. ™ projects when it cut the ribbon on the Hazlet (NJ) Youth Athletic League’s William B. Paterson Field and the Neighbors of Vega Baja community garden in East Harlem, New York City. “With more than half of the population living in urban areas, it’s critical that neighborhood parks and community gardens are available for the health benefits and social well-being of kids and adults,” said Cindy Code, executive director of Project EverGreen. “Additionally, green spaces in cities work to sequester carbon and create oxygen for those living in the community. Project EverGreen works collaboratively with individuals, businesses and like-minded groups to renovate and restore green spaces.” Te in-kind donations of materials and labor from professional landscape contractor and supplier volunteers totaled more than $40,000. For more information contact: Cindy Code, Executive Director,
cindycode@projectevergreen.org.
Automated Water Records to Support Western Growers A Salinas, CA company, PowWow Energy, has developed and received a patent for its algorithm system that helps growers, of any crop, measure water needs and uses. Teir method for measuring groundwater use meets the accuracy requirements under Title 23 of State of California regulations. By the end of June over 20,000 acres of farm land were using the service. “Te idea of using a recent pump test with electrical records is not new, but the relationship between power and water flow varies greatly over time. It is hard. We have seen a lot of farms try, and we wanted to help them. Farms are concerned with the mounting cost of meeting new regulations,” stated Olivier Jerphagnon, CEO and founder of PowWow. Te deadline for forming Groundwater Sustainable Agencies in California was June 30, 2017, and monitoring requirements will be announced as a second step. PowWow’s water measurement feature provides a simple solution to reporting water use. Farms do not need to install new telemetry equipment and they can leverage existing pump tests performed by a certified tester. Smart meters are already installed in California with telemetry to provide automated energy billing by power utilities. Tis is a good example of public-private partnership. Smart meters have already been deployed by rate-payers, and a private innovation allows farms to get a secondary benefit for a device installed at their location. For more information go to:
https://www.powwowenergy.com/.
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