AB99 (Connolly) ESTM Hearing - Success!
Assembly Member Damon Connolly's Caltrans Integrated Pest Management (IPM) bill (AB99) made it through the Environmental Safety and Toxic...
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megankaun
- Mar 21
- 3 min
Bringing Flower Power Back to California
Protecting out roadsides with flowers could save our DOTs millions. Roadsides are a natural place for native flowers to grow. Before the...
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megankaun
- Mar 14
- 2 min
Caltrans No-Spray Requests, Spring 2023
The grasses are growing and Caltrans will be around soon to spray CA-116. If you live/work along CA-116 (or any other state highway) and...
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megankaun
- Feb 28
- 1 min
The True Costs of Highway Spraying
Why roadside pesticide use has the biggest impact on our under-housed neighbors. Pesticides that are broadcast sprayed on highways impact...
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megankaun
- Feb 28
- 1 min
Sonoma County's Bold Commitment to Pesticide Reductions
Videos from August 2022 forum on The Road to Safer, More Sustainable Pest Management: how state and local agencies can work together to...
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megankaun
- Feb 16
- 4 min
Save the Bees, No Pesticides Please
A review of pesticide products for Spring 2023 Spring is here in Sonoma County and the garden sections of our local stores are full of...
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megankaun
- Jan 24
- 2 min
Healthy Highways
California Assembly Bill 99 (AB-99) would provide local control over pesticide use on state highways. At present, Humboldt and Mendocino...
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megankaun
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
7 Generations Later; The Return of Indigenous Land Stewardship
Make a donation to support our efforts to create non-toxic healthy fire ecosystems What does it mean to steward the land, including all...
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megankaun
- Nov 27, 2022
- 4 min
Is Your Christmas Tree Pesticide-Free?
Nothing says Christmas more than the scent of a fresh cut tree, but what about trees that have been sprayed with pesticides? Tree farms...
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megankaun
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min
California Pesticide Notification Pilot Falls Short
**Action Alert** Email the CDPR (ProjectNotify@cdpr.ca.gov) before November 14, tell them a better system for pre-notifications of...
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megankaun
- Oct 20, 2022
- 1 min
Packed House for Film on RoundUp in Wine Country
About 200 people gathered last week at the Sebastopol Rialto Theater to watch a newly released documentary called Children of the Vine, a...
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megankaun
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Powerful Responses from Local Candidates on Pesticide-Free Policy
We were impressed by the powerful responses we received from our 2022 city council/mayoral candidate questionnaire on pesticide policy....
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megankaun
- Oct 18, 2022
- 1 min
Swans Poisoned After Herbicide Application in Southern California Community
Over a dozen swans were found dead and dying following a herbicide application near a community lake. Herbicides applied included...
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megankaun
- Oct 10, 2022
- 3 min
A Leader in Organic Viticulture and Soil Health
Darek Trowbridge, Old World Winery. "We can't fight industry but we can outperform it." In Greece, one of the places where wine was first...
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megankaun
- Oct 10, 2022
- 2 min
October is Children's Environmental Health Month!
It's October, time for pumpkins, apples, and trick-or-treating. It's the perfect time for us to remember our children's basic right to...
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megankaun
- Sep 28, 2022
- 2 min
Time for Toxic Free Weed Care
September 28, 2022. The rains came early in Sonoma County this year and the grasses have sprouted! Right now is the best time to steward...
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megankaun
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
State Assembly District 12 Candidates Show Broad Support for Safer Pesticide Policy
We were thrilled to learn that both State Assembly District 12 candidates Damon Connolly and Sara Aminzadeh show strong support for more...
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megankaun
- Aug 29, 2022
- 2 min
Community Forum Puts Spotlight on Caltrans' Pesticide Use in Sonoma County
On August 23, 2022. The Sonoma Safe Ag Safe Schools (Sonoma SASS) coalition held an open public forum to talk about pesticide use in...
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megankaun
- Dec 6, 2021
- 1 min
Stop the Farallon Poison Drop -December 2021
"We are going to need a MASSIVE public opposition to this to stop this from happening." Cea Higgins, Coastwalk Sign up NOW to speak in...
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megankaun
- Nov 30, 2021
- 1 min
Playful Nontoxic Farallon Solution to the Mouse Problem
A little holiday humor with a different approach to the mouse problem on the Farallon Islands...but in all seriousness, help us Stop the...
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