Sierra Club Seeks Pesticide Education Funding

Sierra Club Seeks Education Plan Funding

The group also wants the city to create and fund an educational program to inform Calgarians about the dangers of nonorganic pesticides and safer alternatives. And it wants the city to remove dandelions from its list of noxious weeds.

[More about the innocent Dandelion]

Subject:   Antipesticide Group Urges Ban: Sierra Club Seeks Education Plan Funding
Date:       Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:30:29 -0500
From:        Stephen Tvedten <steve@getipm.com>
Organization:     Get Set Inc. (www.getipm.com)

To: Paul Helliker <phelliker@cdpr.ca.gov>
Director, State of California, Department of Pesticide Regulation

Dear Mr. Helliker, I thought you might like to read an article entitled: Antipesticide Group Urges Ban: Sierra Club Seeks Education Plan Funding - November 22, 2000 - The Calgary Herald, B6 - Joe Woodard, Calgary Herald.

The Sierra Club of Calgary wants this city to, according to this story, stop using artificial pesticides insecticides and herbicides.

The story says that the club's campaign for pesticide reduction will be meeting with Calgary city council's operations and environment committee next Wednesday, seeking an end to the cosmetic use of synthetic pesticides in city parks, playgrounds and pathways.

The group also wants the city to create and fund an educational program to inform Calgarians about the dangers of nonorganic pesticides and safer alternatives. And it wants the city to remove dandelions from its list of noxious weeds.

Sierra Club representative Brian Pincott was quoted as telling a Herald editorial board meeting that, "Private homeowners use four times the pesticides the city does. But we want the city to show some leadership in this issue.

Forty cities across Canada have already banned pesticide use for cosmetic purposes most recently Toronto so we aren't suggesting that the city wander off into unknown territory.''

Well Mr. Helliker, I hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving dinner. I also hope and pray that one Thanksgiving, hopefully in the very near future, we all can "wander off into unknown (POISON free) territory". I will truly be thankful if "someone" in this country would "show some real leadership". "Registered" POISONS do not "protect" - they KILL! When will it be "legal" (in your opinion) to use safe and far more effective (unregistered) alternatives to actually control pest problems in California?

Respectfully, Stephen L. Tvedten