Informational Web Links
Beyond
Pesticides www.beyondpesticides.org (formerly National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides): The organization’s primary goal is to
effect change through local action, assisting individuals and community-based
organizations to stimulate discussion on the hazards of toxic pesticides, while
providing information on safer alternatives.
Glyphosate
(includes Ranger Pro and Roundup brands) factsheets
on the effects
on health, wildlife and environment:
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/Glyphosate.pdf and
http://www.pesticide.org/glyphosate.pdf
2,4-D Chemical Watch Factsheets:
Click on 2,4-D
and http://www.pesticide.org/24D.pdf
Grassroots Environmental Education (http://www.grassrootsinfo.org/): a nonprofit organization that provides information and training on pesticide hazards and options for organic turf management, including training courses for lawn care professionals.
A Living Lawn: A Lawn for Living (http://www.livinglawn.org/):
Native Grass, Wildflower Mixes
and Vendors— The top link is Sedona specific; the
second is more inclusive:
http://www.geocities.com/sedonasprayfree/NativeGrassWildflowerMixAndVendorsForSedona.htm http://www.geocities.com/sedonasprayfree/SeedMixesVendorsNativeGrassWildflowers.htm
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) (http://www.pesticide.org):
A national resource for information on pesticides and alternatives.
Pesticide Action Network
Pesticide Free Ontario website www.pesticidefree.ca
Full
Report
The Secret Hazards of Pesticides: Inert Ingredients,
Report, Attorney General of New York State, Office of the Attorney General
Environmental Protection Bureau, February 1996 (web page moved)
Toxics Use Reduction
Institute (TURI),
UB Pesticide Report 2000, (For the
University at
Stacey Vaeth,
B.A. Environmental Studies, 2000, UB Green Office
http://www.ubgreenoffice.com/?p=43
http://www.ubgreenoffice.com/ UB Green: Helping you go green
Worst
Kept Secrets: Toxic Inert Ingredients in
Pesticides,
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides,
Worst Kept Secrets: Toxic
Inert Ingredients in Pesticides [PDF 150k]
The
Environmental Association for Great Lakes Education (EAGLE) http://www.eagle-ecosource.org/ The following is an edited excerpt from this
link about some of the organization’s current campaigns:
Be Safe Campaign
BE SAFE is a nationwide initiative to protect children’s health and the natural
environment through a "better safe than sorry" precautionary
approach. The coalition is focusing on local, state and national initiatives by
hundreds of groups to attain regulatory policies requiring safe alternatives
for chemicals, products and technologies that cause harm to peoples’ health or
the environment.
Based on the "first do no harm" approach of medicine, the
precautionary approach shifts the questions we ask about environmental hazards
from "what level of harm is acceptable?" to "how can we prevent
harm?" The BE SAFE Platform calls for policies to be based on the
following four principles: Heed Early Warnings, Put Safety First, Exercise
Democracy and Choose the Safest Solution. www.besafenet.com.
Children's
Environmental Health Project
We present
information on the growing cancer rates among young children, the increased
asthma risk due to air pollution, and chemicals being found in our food supply.
We also discuss water quality issues (including local fish advisories),
household cleaning products to avoid and the hidden dangers surrounding
lead/radon/pesticides. We provide materials on healthy alternatives for
cleaning products and non- toxic lawn care…. For more info see http://www.eagle-ecosource.org/healthychildhome.html
http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/
The following is excerpted from http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/program/program.html
:
TRADE
SECRETS: A MOYERS REPORT is an investigation of the history of the chemical revolution and the
companies that drove it – and how companies worked to withhold vital
information about the risks from workers, the government, and the public.
Journalist Bill Moyers and producer Sherry Jones rely
on an archive of documents the public was never meant to see –- documents that
reveal the industry's early knowledge that some chemicals could pose dangers to
human health that were not disclosed at the time.
But the documentary also reports a
much larger story – a never- before-told account of a campaign to limit the
regulation of toxic chemicals and any liability for their effects.
Today, every man, woman and child has synthetic chemicals in their bodies. No child is born free of them. Are they safe? Does anyone know?
What is the industry doing to keep us fully informed about the health and
safety effects of chemicals? These are the crucial questions raised by the
documentary and addressed in a panel discussion moderated by Bill Moyers in the program's final half hour.
See also http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/problem/problem.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1007-21.htm For the speech by Bill Moyers:
How Do We Cover Penguins and the
Politics of Denial?
by Bill Moyers
Keynote Speech to the Society of Environmental Journalists
Convention
See excerpt http://www.geocities.com/sedonasprayfree/InvestigateChemicals.htm