Rational Environmental Solutions Is an IPM based company These are some of the things we provide: Information, on lawncare, gardening, landscape, environment and ecology, we have information on this site and our other sites such as: Bugs And Weeds. We provide outdoor pest control, through TexPest Services the Web address is easy to recall, WWW.TEXPEST.COM . We do a lot more, such as commercial vegetation management, pond and lake weed control, tree care, lawn care, landscaping, and we are venturing into the Environmental Assessment arena. Don't forget to check out our Tutorial Page, for lots of cool gardening ideas!
This press release from "Press Exposure" and explains a lot about us, and what we believe.
IPM BASED COMPANY CHALLENGES OLD SUPPOSTIONS!
Tyler, TX (PressExposure) March 20, 2007 -- Rational Environmental Solutions is an IPM, that is, Integrated Pest Management, company based in East Texas. The company emphasizes the use of good planning and "cultural" practices as the most important part of pest control!
This is the EPA definition of IPM:
"In technical terms, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is the coordinated use of pest and environmental information with available pest control methods to prevent unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical means and with the least possible hazard to people, property, and the environment".
"I just don't think that the EPA definition goes far enough, and it definitely starts in the wrong place," says the companies owner, James Burns. "The standard definitions just don't work. If we start out using them to define where we are, we are, at best, putting the proverbial band aid on a bullet hole. I propose a different model. One that not only treats the symptoms, and cures the disease, but one based on prevention. Most definitions of IPM, start with the symptoms, and how to deal with them by using the various methods at hand. The real issue is prevention. Let's look at it like this: The pest problem, say, West Nile Virus carrying mosquitoes, are the evidence or SYMPTOM. We have them in our lawn, or school yard or park because we have a breeding area nearby, that is the DISEASE in our environmental body, and the cure, is to get rid of the standing water that allows them to breed. The solution to the problem is to stop doing the things that cause the stagnant water build up, or at least don't build the home, or school or park next door to it.
What we need is prevention, and it needs to spread way beyond the pest control arena into other seemingly unrelated industries, such as the architects and engineers designing our structures, keeping in mind that where they are built, and what we do to build them, has long term consequences for the broader environment. We need to change our way of thinking about ecology and environment, so that we can change the way we interact with it."
About Rational Environmental Solutions
Rational Environmental Solutions is an East Texas, Integrated Pest Management Company dealing with outdoor pest control problems, for commercial and residential concerns. Mr. Burns is licensed in a broad number of categories in pest control, has had a lifetime of experience in agriculture and horticulture, and has been a Certified Professional Turfgrass Manager for 16 years. Rational Environmental Solutions at www.texpest.com Working with nature, for you!
Copyright 2007 James Burns
As you can see, we are not the same old thing! Tell a friend to visit us at www.texpest.com.
