Local Groups Working on Pesticide Issues
Marin Beyond Pesticides
Contact: Ginger Souders-Mason, (415) 456-2849
Marin Beyond Pesticides is the coming together of 42 Marin organizations and businesses working to change the way people view and use pesticides. The goal of this organization is to reduce the use of pesticides in schools and in private homes.
Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
Contact: (415) 981-3939
A coalition of more than 130 public health, consumer, environmental, sustainable agriculture, labor and rural assistance public interest organizations. Their goals are to expand the public's right to know about pesticide use and abuse, reduce that use and promote safer, ecologically sound agricultural and urban pest management.
Hungry Owl Project
Encourages the reduction of pesticide and rodenticide use through the positive act of putting up Barn Owl boxes and involving the public through education, while contributing to scientific research.
Pesticide Watch
Contact: (415) 292-1486
Pesticide Watch and Pesticide Watch Education Fund are sister organizations dedicated to fighting dangerous pesticide use in California communities.Pesticide Education Center
Provides critical information on health effects and safer alternative pest control methods to the public. Our mission is to educate consumers to make more informed choices to protect themselves, their families, their pets, their neighbors, and the environment from toxic pesticides.Pesticide Education Group
Contact by e-mail: pegofmarin@aol.com
A grassroots community organization whose objective is educate parents regarding the adverse health effects of exposure to pesticides on their children at school, in parks , sports fields and in their own homes and to empower concerned people to make policy changes in their local school district and municipality.
Water Keepers
Contact by e-mail: marsha@sfbaykeeper.org, (415) 561-2299
WaterKeepers has worked on listing creeks throughout the Bay-Delta watershed that are impaired by pestcides, has developed a statewide legal and regulatory strategy to stop unregulated agricultural flows, has jump-started numerous pesticide TMDL work groups focussed on assessment and cleanup, has won the first-ever statewide permits for aquatic pesticide use, gotten new regulations in Santa Clara county for monitoring and limiting pesticide discharge, and has gotten commitments of more than $3 million in state funds to assess reduction of pesticide flows to water and study nontoxic alternatives.
Other Groups Working on Pesticide Issues
Beyond Pesticides
Contact: 202-543-5450, info@beyondpesticides.org
Beyond Pesticides ( National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides) provides the public with useful information on pesticides and their alternatives. Their site offers detailed information on pesticide ingredients, toxicity of commonly used pesticides, non-toxic pest management, least toxic pesticides, and information on toxic pesticides.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
has campaigned to replace pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives since 1982. PAN Pesticide Database brings together information from many different sources about pesticide toxicity and regulatory information. Visit the PAN International Site.
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP)
Contact: (541) 344-5044
Works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. They have a number of alternatives factsheets on-line. They publish a quarterly magazine, Journal of Pesticide Reform.
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