East Bay Pesticide Alert/Don't Spray California
do not compromise around health.
We advocate NO use of pesticides.


Because our very lives depend on ridding the world of toxic pesticides.
And because a real community means we don't need to evacuate the chemically sensitive,
the old, the young, the immune system-compromised.

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Local Issues

Topics include:

Wildfire Prevention Asssessment District - Oakland IPM Rollback

Caltrans

Vector Control and Mosquito Abatement (including West Nile Virus)

Spartina

 

Emergency Info

Pesticide Illness Reporting Form

 

Pesticides

What's Wrong With Roundup?

Roundup - fact sheet from NCAP

Roundup - fact sheet from CATs

Roundup - Mobility in Soil?

Monsanto Saves 70 foot Tall, 400,000 pound Sculptures from 5 foot Weeds

What's Wrong with Permethrin (RAID and other bug sprays)?

What's Wrong with IPM?

Pesticide Illness Reporting Form

Pesticides and Your Constitutional Rights

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us (Californians for Alternatives to Toxics)

Overview Brochure

Alternatives

Sterile Soil Can't Grow Healthy Plants

Arcata - Playing Fields Without Pesticides

City of Arcata Ordinance (text)

City of Fairfax Ordinance

Click on "Town Code", when "Town Code" page appears, click on link underneath "Forms and Files" to see the Pesticide Application Notice requirements.
To see the full ordinance, higher up on the "Town Code" page, click on the Fairfax Municipal Code link to go to the American Legal Publishing Corporation website. Once there, select your frames/no frames preferece, and when the Municipal Code page appears, enter "Pesticide" as your search term and click the Search button.

Fairfax Pesticide Application Notice Requirements

The total ban on the use of pesticides on the commons can be separated from the notification portion of the ordinance if a city wanted to do that.

To see some of the history behind the ordinance Fairfax adopted in 2001 visit safe2use

Links

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Pest of the Month

Light Brown Apple Moth

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Glassy-winged Sharpshooter
and
Wine Country Issues

What You Don't Know Could Hurt You - Toxic Pesticide Drift (Environmental Working Group)

Pesticides & Wine Grapes in Sonoma & Napa Counties: Time for a Change
(Californians for Alternatives to Toxics)

 

 

 

 

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updated 4/26/2008