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Pesticide Free Communities
The Pink and Green Ribbon Health Program mandate is to decrease the high
breast cancer statistics by reducing carcinogens in our environment. The
Pesticide Free Initiative is a way to reduce carcinogens getting into our
bodies through water, air and food.
How to create a pesticide free community, 7 easy steps:
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Create a coalition - get people that are interested to sign up for their support with emails and phone numbers. On the coalition form identify that you will be requiring their support by them helping on the steps to get the community pesticide free. |
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Contact the local stores that sell pesticides to determine if there is a use of pesticides in the community (this provides concrete information when presenting to council because they may ask "Why a by-law, why not voluntary?"). Get volunteers to help track down this information. |
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Contact local landscaping companies to determine who uses pesticides (also provides concrete information when presenting to council). Get volunteers to help track down this information. |
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Meet with a Town/City representative (i.e. Town Planner) and Town Councillor(s) in an informal setting to discuss the initiative. Gauge their receptivity to it and ask what questions/concerns they have. |
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Set out to find the answers and solutions to their questions and concerns. |
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Present the initiative to the Town/City environmental body that corresponds with Town Council (i.e. Canmore has the Environmental Advisory Committee that sees everything before it goes to council.) |
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Create a presentation with all the information you have gathered, who you are, how you got there, who is for the pesticide free by-law, why there should be a by-law (TOXINS, CARCINOGENS, POISONS). Present this formally to Town/City Council. Make sure the presentation is scientific, with referenced data, not emotionally driven. The more facts the more plausible and credible your initiative will be. Remember to use your resources. Use the coalition to help put things together so you are not over-extending yourself. |
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Some links to pesticide free initiatives and example by-laws are:
www.healthycalgary.ca/
www.earthwisethunderbay.com/docs/earthwise/5389.pdf
www.evergreen.ca/en/
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Any step towards making the environment less toxic helps reduce the current
high numbers of women getting breast cancer. If you have been working on
Pesticide Free Initiatives please contact us so we can work together.
Join the initiative at: office@pinkandgreenribbon.com
Tell us your business name, contact information including phone and email and
a brief description of choices that your business has made in order to go
Pesticide Free.
| Concerns over how the use of chemical pesticides can affect our health has led a local group to ask the municipal government for a town-wide ban on cosmetic pesticide use.
Organizers of the Pink and Green Health Campaign appeared before council last week, asking for a bylaw to ban the use of commercial and private pesticide use in Canmore for nuisance and noxious weeds. More» |  |
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