Resources About Pesticides and Alternatives

Publications	Groups working on pesticide issues/ alternatives
Web sites	Less Toxic Pest Management in Schools

Publications

The Healthy Home and Garden for People, Pets and the Environment
Available free of charge from MCSTOPPP by calling the publication/request hotline at 485-3363 or making a request by e-mail at mcstoppp@co.marin.ca.us. This booklet offers information on gardening, less-toxic pesticides, and water quality. For more information on less toxic pest management, visit www.ourwaterourworld.org

Grow It
This fan-shaped publication is available free from MCSTOPPP by calling the publication/request hotline at 485-3363. Offers information on using alternatives to pesticides for garden pests. Provides information on plants that are drought tolerant, deer resistant, fire resistant, invasive, native, and good for attracting birds and butterflies.

We're Dying to Tell You...
This brochure highlights the effects pollutants (including pesticides) have on marine mammals. Available for free from MCSTOPPP by calling the publication/request hotline at 485-3363.

Designer Poisons
by Marion Moses, M.D. Available from the Pesticide Education Center, P. O. Box 420870, San Francisco 94142-0870. Phone 391-8511. Fax: 391-9159. e-mail: pec@igc.apc./org. Call for pricing.

Grow Smart. Grow Safe: A consumer guide to lawn and garden products
by Philip Dickey, Washington Toxics Coalition. Available from the Coalition, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103. Call for pricing. Phone: 206-632-1545 email: info@watertoxics.org .

Pest and Disease Remedies
An excerpt from Fine Gardening Magazine on "Make It Yourself" formulations by Sharon Lovejoy click here to view

No Place for Poisons: Reducing Pesticides in Schools
by Elizabeth Loudon. Call for pricing. Available through the Washington Toxics Coalition, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103. The Coalition also puts out a newsletter called Alternative.

Reducing Pesticide Use in Schools: An Organizing Manual
by Gregg Small of the Pesticide Watch Education Fund. Available from the Pesticide Watch Education Fund, 450 Geary Street, Suite 500, San Francisco 94102. Phone: 292-1486. Fax: 292-1497. e-mail: pestiwatch@igc.org. Call for pricing.

IPM for Schools: A How-To Manual
by Bio-Integral Resource Center, 510-524-2567. This publication covers least-toxic pest management methos for a variety of insect pests, weeds and mammals found in schools. Call for pricing.

Toxic Secrets: "Inert" Ingredients in Pesticides 1987-1997 by Northwest Coalition for Alternative Pesticides. The coalition can be contacted by Phone: 541-344-5044. Fax: 541-344-6923. e-mail: info@pesticide.org. website: www.pesticide.org.
Information also available through Californians for Pesticide Reform, 49 Powell Street, Suite 530, San Francisco 94102. Phone: 981-3939 or 1-888-CPR-4880. Fax:981-2727. email: pests@igc.org. website: www.igc.org/cpr.

Read the Dursban Fact Sheet to find out about the ban on this insecticide.

Pesticide Hazard And Exposure Reduction (PHAER) Zones In The Landscape.
By Phil Boise, The PHAER Zone System is designed to prevent human and environmental exposure to hazardous pesticides. It is a tool that guides, prioritizes, and clearly communicates pesticide use decisions in the outdoor landscape setting.The author of the PHAER Zone system, Phil Boise encourages you to review the documents. He is available to provide varying levels of support, from a general presentation of the concept, to staff training, to mapping and implementation assistance. He can be reached at: Urban-Ag Ecology, 41 Hollister Ranch, Gaviota CA 93117
The handbook is available for download at: www.home.earthlink.net/~phaerzones

Web Sites

Beyond Pesticides (formerly the National Coalition Against Misuse of Pesticides)
This is an excellent resource. Be sure to check out areas such as Pesticide Ingredients, Toxicity of Commonly Used Pesticides, Non-Toxic Pest Management, Least Toxic Pesticides, and Information on Toxic Pesticides.

Our Water - Our World
This website offers information on the least toxic pesticide products available through retail stores, including where to buy them. The site also features an "Ask the Expert" section for California residents where questions can be asked, and answers received, online. Other areas of the site offer information on beneficial insects, where to dispose of unwanted pesticides, and a variety of other resources.

Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
The PAN Pesticide Database combines information on health hazards, regulatory status, and toxicity to plant and animals for more than 5100 pesticide ingredients and related compounds. This is the single most comprehensive source of pesticide data currently available. All data contained in the database comes from established sources, including US EPA, National Toxicology Program, National Departments of Health, and the World Health Organization.

National Pesticide Telecommunications Network
NPTN offers a toll-free telephone service that provides pesticide information to anyone in the United States seven days a week excluding holidays from 6:30am to 4:30pm pacific time at 1-800-858-7378.

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. They have a number of alternatives factsheets on-line.

EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs
EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs web site has important information such as consumer alerts, safety programs, ipm programs and much more!

EPA's Restricted Use Site lists pesticide active ingredients with recent restricted use product changes.

EPA's Biopesticide Site
Learn about biopesticides, read about biopesticide news and utilize regulatory reference documents.

UC IPM's Pest Management Guidelines in homes and landscapes
Supplies the University of California's official guidelines for pest monitoring techniques, pesticides, and nonpesticide alternatives for managing pests in homes and landscapes.

SAFE2USE.com is a good place to find out about non-toxic products and services.

TOXTOWN- an interactive guide to commonly encountered toxic substances.

 

Healthy Schools Act of 2000 (Assembly Bill 2260)
Recently signed into the law, this law puts into code DPR's existing voluntary school IPM program and adds some requirements for schools, such as parental notification of pesticide application, warning signs, record keeping at schools and pesticide use reporting by licensed pest control businesses which apply pesticides at schools.

California School Integrated Pest Management Program
Created by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation as part of its implementtion of the Healthy Schools Act of 2000 (Assembly Bill 2260)

Healthy Schools Campaign
A clearinghouse of information and tools to help eliminate the widespread, unnecessary and harmful use of toxic pesticides in California schools.

Marin County- School IPM Home Page

Creating Healthy School Facilities
List of websites addressing such issues as air quality, janitorial products, asbestos, chalk, lead, green buildings, recycling, portables and energy.

No Place for Poisons: Reducing Pesticides in Schools
by Elizabeth Loudon. Price is $5.78 including postage. Available through the Washington Toxics Coalition, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N, Seattle, WA 98103. The Coalition also puts out a newsletter called Alternative.

Reducing Pesticide Use in Schools: An Organizing Manual
by Gregg Small of the Pesticide Watch Education Fund. Available from the Pesticide Watch Education Fund, 450 Geary Street, Suite 500, San Francisco 94102. Phone: 292-1486. Fax: 292-1497. e-mail: pestiwatch@igc.org. Cost is $5.

IPM for Schools: A How-To Manual
by Bio-Integral Resource Center, 510-524-2567. This publication covers least-toxic pest management methods for a variety of insect pests, weeds and mammals found in schools. Call about pricing or visit www.birc.org

Insecticide Chalk: Unsafe and Illegal (EPA Region 9 Pesticide Alert)
This Pesticide Alert is to advise school maintenance or other personnel that an illegal pesticide - insecticidal chalk- has been marketed to schools under claims that it is a safe alternative to pesticides.

IPM for Schools: A How-To Manual (EPA Region 9)
This manual includes chapters on ants, cockroaches, fleas, lawns, lice, rats and mice, spiders, scorpions, etc. Included in this manual is a chapter on a less-toxic approach for controlling head lice, a major nuisance at schools. Visit the website for a free copy of this manual. Or contact Mary Grisier at (415) 744-1095.

IPM-Certified Schools
Contact http://www.ipminstitute.org/school.htm if you are interested in putting together a program for schools to be IPM certified, similar to California certified organic produce.

Marin County Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program: P. O. Box 4186 San Rafael, CA 94913-4186 Phone (415) 499-6528, Fax (415) 499-7221, e-mail: mcstoppp@co.marin.ca.us