(Beyond pesticides, August 29, 2022) Does your community have a pesticide-free park managed using organic practices? Would you like this to be the case? If you have a bioparks policy, do you have up-to-date information on current practices? Now is the time to act to assert or protect our authority to shift our community’s land management to organic practices, just as the pesticide industry is pushing to take that right away from us. Become an advocate for the parks. And, take the measurements below.
If your community is one of a growing number across the country that has taken action to protect its citizens and environment by adopting organic policies and practices in its public spaces, please take this opportunity to request an update on how organic land management is going or requesting that the community begin the transition to organic land management.
At the same time, be aware that the pesticide industry seeks to deprive local communities of the ability to limit toxic pesticides. Have your Mayor/County Commissioner/City Manager contact your U.S. Representative and Senators, on your behalf, and tell them to oppose HR 7266 and support the Protecting America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA), which contains a provision asserting local authority to restrict pesticides.
Please share photos of your parks with us. Tell us why your pesticide-free parks are important to you.
If your community has not yet taken steps to protect its residents and environment by adopting organic policies and practices in its public spaces.
Letter to Mayor/County Commissioner/City Manager:
This letter contains a two-part request – first to address organic stewardship in our community and, second, to contact our elected representatives in Congress to protect our community’s right to restrict toxic pesticides.
I would like to ensure that all land (parks, playgrounds, playgrounds, etc.) in our area is managed with organic practices that eliminate toxic fossil fuel based pesticides and fertilizers. Where these practices are in place, I would appreciate a report to the community. Where organic practices are not used, I ask that a plan be put in place for the transition, as part of a community effort to protect health and biodiversity, and to address the climate crisis. Now is the time for us all to come together to do our part to reduce petroleum-based pesticides and fertilizers and sequester atmospheric carbon in the soil through effective organic practices.
I also ask that you contact, on behalf of our community, our U.S. Representative and Senators to tell them to oppose HR 7266 and support the Protecting America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA), which contains a provision asserting local authority to restrict pesticides. We need your voice to be heard on behalf of all residents of our community to protect our health and biodiversity and fight the climate crisis. Moving away from fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers through restricting toxic pesticides and adopting organic practices is critically important to our current health and future sustainability.
Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you.
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