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Pesticides and Safer Alternatives
Mosquito Repellents
Precautionary Principle
Local Activism
Asthma
Chemical Injury
Children and Pesticides
West Nile Virus
Pesticides and Safer Alternatives (Including Landscaping and Gardening Tips)
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Beyond Pesticides:
www.beyondpesticides.org
202.543.5450
Extensive information about the dangers of pesticides and safer options.
Greenscapes Coalition's 2008 Greenscapes Guide:
www.greenscapes.org/Page-134.html
Information about creating a beautiful landscape while protecting our water.
Healthy Yards Brochure by NPAC and the Boston Public Health Commission:
www.npacboston.org/brochure.html
Tips about how to grow a healthy lawn or garden without using pesticides.
Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) Organic Land Care Program:
www.organiclandcare.net
Kathy Litchfield, Organic Land Care Program Coordinator: 413.773.3830
Information about organic land care.
For its “NOFA Guide to Organic Land Care,” go to www.ctnofa.org/documents/OrganicLandCareGuide_000.pdf
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides:
www.pesticide.org
541.344.5044
Extensive information about the dangers of pesticides and safer options.
Orchard Project:
www.npacboston.org/orchards.html
Instructions about how you can join a movement to plant an orchard in your neighborhood.
Organic Gardening.Com:
www.organicgardening.com
Information about how to start, or transition to, organic gardening.
Wellesley Natural Resources Commission, Pesticide Awareness Campaign:
home.comcast.net/~little.sarah
781.431.1019 x294
Comprehensive guide to information, education, and resources on risks and
alternatives to pesticides.
Soil and Plant Tissue Testing Laboratories, UMass Extension Services:
www.umass.edu/plsoils/soiltest
413.545.2311
Soil testing and advice for adjusting your soil’s pH and nutrient
levels.
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“DEET, Repellent Factsheet” by Caroline Cox in Journal of
Pesticide Reform, Fall 2005, Vol. 25, No. 3. Published by Northwest Coalition
for Alternatives to Pesticides, Eugene, Ore.:
www.pesticide.org/DEET.pdf
“Plant-Based Mosquito Repellents: Making a Careful Choice” by
Caroline Cox in Journal of Pesticide Reform, Fall 2005, Vol. 25, No. 3.
Published by Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, Eugene,
Ore.:
www.pesticide.org/mosquitorepellents.pdf
“The Precautionary Principle in Action: A Handbook” by Joel
Tickner, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production (978.934.2981); Carolyn
Raffensberger, Science and Environmental Health Network (701.763.6286);
and Nancy Myers:
www.biotech-info.net/handbook.pdf
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Alternatives for Community & Environment
(ACE):
www.ace-ej.org
617.442.3343
Grassroots, Roxbury-based organization committed to eliminating the root
causes of environmental injustice.
Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow:
www.healthytomorrow.org
617.338.8131
A coalition of Massachusetts citizens seeking to establish new government
policies that prevent harm to our health from toxic hazards.
Massachusetts Coalition for Pesticide Reduction:
Information network for people interested in effecting change in their own towns or in staying abreast of pesticide issues in Massachusetts. If you would like to learn more about joining the coalition, e-mail NPAC at info@npacboston.org.
Neighbors For Neighbors:
www.neighborsforneighbors.org
857-222-4420
Brings neighbors together to connect and care for one another and to transform their ideas into actions that contribute to the community.
Neighborhood Pesticide Action Committee (NPAC):
Visit our Get Involved page to find out how you can get involved in NPAC's
campaign. Fill out the form on our Contact Us page if you would like to
be added to our e-mail list.
Toxics Action Center:
www.toxicsaction.org
617.292.4821
New England-wide resource for communities that are waging campaigns against
stubborn polluters and unresponsive bureaucracies.
See also "Chemical Injury" below.
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“Asthma, Children and Pesticides: What You Should Know to Protect Your Family.” Published by Beyond Pesticides, Washington, D.C. (see Beyond Pesticides under “Pesticides and Safer Alternatives“ above):
www.beyondpesticides.org/children/asthma/AsthmaBrochureCited.pdf
The story behind asthma, children, and pesticides and steps you can take to reduce the risks of illness.
Our Stolen Future:
www.ourstolenfuture.org/NewScience/oncompounds/pesticides/2003/2003-1214salametal.htm
Synopsis of “Early Life Environmental Risk Factors for Asthma: Findings
from the Children's Health Study” by Muhammad Towhid Salam, Yu-Fen
Li, Bryan Langholz, and Frank Davis Gilliland. Online December 9 2003.
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If you think there has been a chemical-pesticide poisoning, immediately call the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention Serving Massachusetts and Rhode Island:
800.222.1222
888.244.5313 (TTY)
Chemical Injury Information Network:
www.ciin.org
406.547.2255
A support and advocacy organization run by the chemically injured for the
chemically injured, especially those with multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS).
Massachusetts Association for the Chemically Injured:
www.angelfire.com/ma3/maci/
978.681.5117
A statewide organization for people with multiple chemical sensitivity
(MCS) and others who are sensitive to chemicals in the environment.
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An Act Protecting Children
and Families from Harmful Pesticides (Chapter 85 of the [Massachusetts] Acts
of 2000):
www.massnrc.org/ipm/schools-daycare/child-protection-act-2000/full-text.html
Massachusetts state law governing all public and private schools, day care
centers, and school-age child care programs. Through the practice of integrated
pest management (IPM), the law aims to prevent unnecessary exposure of children
to chemical pesticides, promote safer alternatives, and ensure notification
concerning pesticide use.
Children’s Environmental Health Center of the Mount Sinai Medical Center:
www.childenvironment.org
212.241.6145
A center of research and advocacy that is leading the effort nationally to protect children against environmental toxins.
“The Blue Dot” by Margaret O’Nan:
www.listentoourstories.com/Part4/the-blue-dot.htm
A story, as told by a young girl, about living with the aftereffects of pesticide
poisoning.
See also "Asthma" above.
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Boston’s Response to West Nile Virus by Linda Hillyer:
www.npacboston.org/documents/BostonResponse_9-02.pdf
Click the above link to download the article.
Preventing West Nile Virus and Other Mosquito-borne Illness
by Kimberly Martin, RN, MAT Health Educator, Boston Public Health Commission:
www.bphc.org/Newsroom/Health Notes/Preventing West Nile Virus and Other Mosquito-borne Illness.pdf
Click the above link to download the article.
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