There is an enormous amount of information on the web about pesticides, as well as a number of great fact sheets that you can print-off and distribute.
The message that pesticides are poison to humans is most powerful coming from a physician. Therefore, the information on the CAPE site is especially useful.
Positive
education & Green Lawn Care:
Natural
Lawn Care (from Peterborough Green-Up)
Natural
Gardens (from Peterborough Green-Up)
Organic Lawn
Care fact sheets (Toronto Environmental Alliance)
Pesticides and Human Health:
Canadian Assoc'n
of Physicians for the Env't (CAPE)
Why Canadian
Physicians are Concerned... (a presentation from CAPE)
Canadian Cancer
Society position paper on pesticides
Ontario College of Family Physicians literature
review (pdf)
Pesticides
(David Suzuki Foundation)
Pesticides and
Human Health (Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
NCAP)
The Chemicals:
2,4-D Fact
Sheet (from
the UK)
Pesticide
Fact Sheet (Sierra Club of Canada)
Basic
Guide to Pesticide Characteristics and Hazards (Rachel Carson Council)
Pesticide
Fact Sheets (NCAP)
