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Active Campaigns
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Biomonitoring and Body Burden
- Coming Clean Project. Is It In Us? Chemical Contamination in Our Bodies: Toxic Trespass, Regulatory Failure and Opportunities for action.
- Coming Clean page on Biomonitoring and Body Burden
- Pesticide Action Network, partnered with Californians for Pesticide Reform and local partner groups, pioneered a community-based study linking biomonitoring and pesticide drift in Lindsay, California.
Chemical Campaigns
Children's Health
Community Use (parks and other public space)
Drift
Environmental Impacts
Farmworker Issues
- Farmworker Justice Farmworkers and Pesticides: Information on the impact of pesticides on farmworkers, and on FJ's continuing work in the area.
- Lake Apopka Farmworker Environmental Health Survey (this is a link to a presentation — website is under construction)
- Pesticide Education Project Just & Sustainable Agriculture Campaign: Protect the environment, workers and consumers and spark economic development projects by supporting fair, sustainable agriculture in rural North Carolina.
- This report by PANNA, United Farm Workers, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, and CPR compiles information on reported farmworker pesticide poisonings and enforcement of pesticide worker health and safety laws throughout California, entitled Fields of Poison.
- United Farm Workers Take Action: Often features actions regarding pesticides and other issue that affect farmworkers.
Home, Lawn and Garden
- Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides Healthier Homes and Gardens: Pesticide-free solutions for pest and weed problems. Great monthly tips for keeping a healthy home
- National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns: Advocates safe, healthy, LIVING lawns and landscapes with the use of organic and least toxic practices and products that nurture and protect the health of children, families, pets, wildlife and the environment from unnecessary exposure to toxic pesticides.
- Talk Dirt with the Dirt Doctor . Use the search engine in the top left corner to locate organic solutions to pest problems in the mid-south.
- Toxics Action Center's Refuse to Use ChemLawn Campaign: Be Truly Green.
- Strategic Video's The Truth About Cats, Dogs & Lawn Chemicals Film screening campaign - Spring 2009
Human Testing
Mosquito-Borne Diseases
- Beyond Pesticides Mosquito/West Nile Virus Campaign: Promoting community-based solutions for least-toxic mosquito management.
- PANNA Malaria/DDT On-line Resource Center: Campaign documents and summaries of scientific studies on sustainable approaches to malaria control, DDT health and environmental effects, and the politics behind the push for increased reliance on DDT for malaria control.
Nanotechnology
Organic/Sustainable Agriculture
- Beyond Pesticides Organic Food Campaign: Protecting organic integrity and supporting sustainablitly in organics.
- Pesticide Education Project Just & Sustainable Agriculture Campaign: Protect the environment, workers and consumers and spark economic development projects by supporting fair, sustainable agriculture in rural North Carolina.
- Environmental Working Group's Food News: EWG always recommends buying organic, but we know you can't always find it. Our new Guide features the fruits and veggies with the most and least pesticides.
Persistent Organic Pollutants Elimination
- International POPs Elimination Network - a global network of public interest non-governmental organizations working for the global elimination of persistent organic pollutants.
- US POPs Watch - A national working group tracking US ratification of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
- POPs Review Committee Info - A repository of information about chemicals being considered for addition under the Stockholm Convention.
- PANNA's Ban Lindane Now! pages - Information on state, national and international efforts to ban the organochlorine pesticide lindane. (Note - currently being updated).
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