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• How to Organize in Your Community
  • Preparing for a Campaign: a framework for winning
    (Mary O’Brien, Pesticides and You, Fall 2001)
  • Calling All Activists: How to start and run a local beyond pesticides organization
    (Pesticides and You, Winter 2002-03)
  • 10 Steps to Grassroots Organizing (Sal Gilbertie)
  • Free Listserves: Start a listserve with fellow community members through Yahoo or Topica.
  • Free Conference Call Setup: Link activists together or with experts with a call.
  • Free Petition: Start an online petition to bring before local decision makers.
    
    
• Local IPM/Pesticide Reduction Policies and Programs
  • Arcata, CA
  • San Francisco, CA
    • San Francisco Case Study
  • San Diego, CA
  • Santa Barbara, CA
  • Santa Cruz, CA
  • Plainville, CT
  • Madison-Dane County (weed and feed product ban)
    • Phosphorus (weed and feed ban) background
  • Marblehead, MA (organic land care policy) (Regulation, 2005)
  • Newton, MA
  • Wellesley, MA
  • Santa Fe, NM
  • Albany, NY
  • New York City, NY
  • Carrboro, NC
  • King County, WA (County-wide)
  • Olympia, WA (PBT and pesticide reduction city policy)
  • Seattle, WA (City Program)
  • Innovative State Legislation: “Green Lawns" (from the state Environmental Resource Center)
  • Vorhees, NJ
    
    
• Pesticide-Free Parks
  • Eastwood Park in Mill Valley CA
  • Fairfax, CA
  • Santa Barbara, CA
  • Town Park, Corte Madera, CA
  • Plainville, CT
  • Sarasota, FL
  • Lawrence, KS
  • Marblehead, MA (Town-owned land)
  • Brick, NJ
  • Hazlet, NJ
  • Chatham, NJ
  • Ocean City, NJ
  • Portland, OR
  • Seattle, WA
  • Camden, ME (new)
  • Vorhees, NJ (new)
  • Rockport, ME (new)
  • Rockland County, NY (new)
    
    
• State Policies
  Connecticut - Proposed 2005 Act Concerning Municipal Restriction of Lawn Care Pesticides
  

• State Preemption and Notification Laws
  • State Preemption Laws (Local Control)
  • State Notification Laws
    
    
• Canadian Bylaws Banning Pesticide Use
  • Toronto
  • Québec | FAQ
  • Halifax (see also 2003 report)
  • Chelsea (en français)
  • Hudson (see related materials)
  • Shediac
  • The Archipelago, an Ontario municipality
  • Private Property Pesticide By-laws In Canada, by Mike Christie (May 2008)
  • Roles of the Three Levels of Governments Regarding Pesticides in Canada

• Studies Documenting Adverse Effects of Lawn Pesticides:
  • Declaration Backgrounder. 2005 April. Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns. An overview of scientific studies supporting hazards of lawn pesticides.
  • Sanborn, Margaret, et al. 2004 April. “Systematic Review of Pesticides Human Health Effects,” The Ontario College of Family Physicians (OCFP). Toronto, Ontario.
  • Glickman, Lawrence, et al. 2004. "Herbicide exposure and the risk of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder in Scottish Terriers," Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. 224(8): 1290-1297. (Press Release)
  • Porter, Warren. 2004, Spring. “Do Pesticides Affect Learning and Behavior? The neuro-endocrine-immune connection,” Pesticides And You. Beyond Pesticides. 21(4):11-15. (Overview of Dr. Porter's findings published in Environ Health Perspectives and Toxicology and Industrial Health.)
  • Greenlee, Anne, et al. 2004."Low-Dose Agrochemicals and Lawn-Care Pesticides Induce Developmental Toxicity in Murine Preimplantation Embryos," Environ Health Perspectives. 112(6):703-709.
  • Colt, Joanne, et al. 2004. “Comparison of pesticide levels in Carpet dust and self-reported pest treatment practices in four US sites.” J. of Exposure Analysis and Environ. Epidemiology, 14:74–83.
  • Salam, MT, et al. 2004. "Early Life Environmental Risk Factors for Asthma: Findings from the Children's Health Study." Environmental Health Perspectives. 112(6): 760.
  • Nishioka, Marcia G., et al. 2001."Distribution of 2,4-D in Air and on Surfaces inside Residences after Lawn Applications: Comparing Exposure Estimates from Various Media for Young Children," Environmental Health Perspectives, 109(11), November.
  • Hardell, Lennart and Mikarl Eriksson. 1999."A Case-Control Study of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma and Exposure to Pesticides," American Cancer Society.
  • Zahm, S. "Mortality study of pesticide applicators and other employees of a lawn care service company." National Cancer Institute. J. Occup Environ Med. 1997 Nov;39(11):1055-67.
  • Nishioka, Marcia G., et al. 1996. "Measuring Transport of Lawn-Applied Herbicide Acids from Turf to Home: Correlation of Dislodgeable 2,4-D Turf Residues with Carpet Dust and Carpet Surface Residues," Environmental Science & Technology, 30(11): 3313-3320.
  • Hayes, Howard M., et al. 1991."Case-Control Study of Canine Malignant Lymphoma: Positive Association With Dog Owner's Use of 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic Acid Herbicides," Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 83:1226-1231.
    
    
  Testimony and Public Comments
• 2,4-D risk assessment Phase 5 of 6 by Beyond Pesticides and friends. (March 14, 2005)
• Revised Environmental Guidelines for Responsible Lawn Care and Landscaping by Beyond Pesticides and nearly 20 other groups (January 27, 2005)
• 2,4-D risk assessment by Beyond Pesticides, NRDC, PAN and some 40 others. (August 23, 2004)
• Preliminary Lawn and Environment Guidelines by Beyond Pesticides. (June 14, 2004) See Daily News story.
• Statement of Jay Feldman, Executive Director Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP before the
  Economic And Environmental Affairs Committee, Maryland Senate. (February 9, 1999)
  
  
• U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports:
  • U.S. GAO, Lawn Care Pesticides: Reregistration Falls Further Behind and Exposure Effects Are Uncertain, GAO/RCED-93-80, April 1993.
• U.S. GAO, Lawn Care Pesticides: EPA Needs to Assess State Notification Programs, GAO/RCED-91-208, September 1991.
• U.S. GAO, Lawn Care Pesticides: Risks Remain Uncertain While Prohibited Safety Claims Continue pdf, html, GAO/RCED-90-134, March 1990.
  
  
• Other Reports:
  • The Impact of By-Laws and Public Education Programs on Reducing the Cosmetic / Non-Essential, Residential Use of Pesticides: A Best Practices Review (The Canadian Center for Pollution Prevention, February 26, 2004)
  • Systematic Review of Pesticides Human Health Effects (The Ontario College of Family Physicians, April 23, 2004)
  • Canadian Cancer Society "breakfast kit" - see Section IV
  • Canadian Cancer Society Public Opinion Research - see page 29
    • These are the findings of an Ipsos Reid telephone poll conducted on behalf of the Canadian Cancer Society and fielded between the dates of February 5 and 17, 2008. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 600 adult British Columbian residents. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within ± 4.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult British Columbia population been polled. The margin of error will be larger within regions and for other sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample's regional and age/sex composition reflects that of the actual British Columbia population according to the 2006 Census data.