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Integrated Farm Assurance Standard applied to Walmart pollinator commitments
Over the past year, The Sustainability Consortium has hosted a working group to harmonize criteria for Responsible Pest Management (RPM) best practices in agriculture. This work resulted in the development of the RPM Framework and User Guide. The RPM Framework supports producers in integrating responsible pest management practices and aligns industry standards across certification and compliance programs, including GLOBALG.A.P. and other industry leaders.
Through this working group, retailers were able to explore their role in implementing best practices. Walmart, together with the support of the IPM Institute of North America, focused on the biodiversity elements of the RPM Framework, especially with regard to pollinators. Walmart believes:
A Champion For All Seasons Pat Quinn, the instigator of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and a 2015 Irish America Hall of Fame inductee.
We are saddened to learn that Pat Quinn, who helped raise $220 million to fight A.L.S., by promoting the Ice Bucket Challenge in 2014, died on Sunday in Yonkers, N.Y., seven years after he learned he had the disease. He was 37. Our thoughts are with Pat’s family.
In 2015, the magazine inducted Pat into the Irish America Hall of Fame. No one deserved it more. Here is his profile as it ran in that issue.
Patrick Quinn escorts then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton into the Irish America Hall of Fame reception in 2015. In the background is Pat’s wife Jenn.