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Get Set, Inc. Non Toxic Pest Control and issues of the environmental and personal impact of pesticides.
Union of Concerned Scientists UCS is an independent nonprofit alliance of 50,000 concerned citizens and scientists across the country.  We augment rigorous scientific analysis with innovative thinking and committed citizen advocacy to build a cleaner, healthier environment and a safer world.
Doctors & Lawyers for Responsible Medicine
DLRM's objective is the immediate and unconditional abolition of all animal experiments, on medical and scientific grounds.
Public Citizen Public Citizen is a national, nonprofit consumer advocacy organization founded by Ralph Nader in 1971 to represent consumer interests in Congress
Network of Concerned Farmers The "Network of Concerned Farmers" is an Australia wide network of conventional and organic farmers who are concerned about the economic, environmental and social impacts of genetically modified crops.
Mark Purdy Seeking the Truth through Science
Environmental Health Coalition Located in San Diego, California.  Environmental Health Coalition is one of the oldest and most effective grassroots organizations in the United States, using social change strategies to achieve environmental justice. 
East Bay Pesticide Alert We advocate NO use of pesticides.  How to help stop the government from spraying pesticides.  Berkeley, CA
Indigenous Environmental Network The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of grassroots indigenous peoples whose mission is to protect the sacredness of Mother Earth from contamination and exploitation by strengthening maintaining and respecting the traditional teachings and the natural laws. 
Healthy Living Foundation We are a group of concerned parents, friends, neighbors and professionals who are committed to educating the community on indoor air quality issues and its effects on you and your family. Many of us have been personally affected by unhealthy indoor air quality that is totally preventable. By creating awareness to this important issue, we will bring positive changes that will benefit the community. 
Red Flags Weekly The mission of redflagsweekly.com is to probe health and medical scientific issues in a manner that one rarely encounters in mainstream news reports.  Corporate bottom lines and inadequate training in specialty journalism often provide the reading, viewing and listening public with narrow and simplistic information.
Food & Water Food & Water is a national political action organization that combines an eclectic mix of strategic and innovative grassroots campaigns with provocative publishing endeavors aimed at the underlying cultural, political, and economic roots of our human-centered injustices.
Rural Advancement Foundation International - RAFI RAFI is an international non-governmental organization
headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. RAFI is
dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies.
Canadians Against Pesticides (CAPS) Canadians Against PesticideS is a grass-roots, activist organization dedicated to banning all pesticides known or suspected of having deleterious effects on humans (especially children) and wildlife.
Kids for Saving Earth (KSE) The mission of KSE is to educate, inspire, and empower children to protect the Earth's environment. KSE Worldwide provides action-oriented educational materials to kids, families, groups, classrooms and schools. 
Community & Children's Advocates Against Pesticide Poisoning (CCAAPP) This is a grass roots organization made up of parents, teachers and concerned citizens in Ventura County, California.  CCAAPP concentrates on providing education and demonstration of the issue of pesticide use in and around their homes and schools.  Page provides contact information for those who would like to help.
Informed Choices Pesticides, Wetlands and the Game of Golf.  ...educating the general public on the hazards of pesticide or chemical use.
SEED (Skills and Environmental Education) Trust - India SEED Trust was set up to promote sustainable rural development, and to provide training in crafts, organic farming and other environment-friendly technologies to young adults and children from underprivileged backgrounds. It is a non-governmental, non-political, non-religious body.
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP provides the public with useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use. With this information, people can and do protect themselves and the environment from the potential adverse public health and environmental effects associated with the use and misuse of pesticides. 
No Spray Zone - Washington State We are a community based citizen group dedicated to ecologically
sound pest management practices that do not compromise public
health.
Fostering Sustainable Behavior This website consists of five resources:an online guide which provides valuable information on designing and evaluating programs to foster sustainable behavior;
searchable databases of graphics, case studies, and articles on fostering sustainable behavior, and a discussion forum for sharing information and asking questions of others.
Pesticide Watch Pesticide Watch and Pesticide Watch Education Fund are sister organizations dedicated to fighting dangerous pesticide use in California communities.  This site has information and links for concerned citizens of California.  Great place to get involved.
End Aerial Spraying Though Education This site exists to counter the self-serving propaganda of CDFA and USDA. Only here will you get the Naked Truth about the long-term dangers of Malathion and the status of Medfly infestations
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is a private, nonprofit organization that provides uniquely valuable services to government employees charged with safeguarding the nation's natural resources. 
Environmental Health Network EHN is staffed by volunteers who are living with Environmental Illness/Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.  Site is a tremendous resources of links to dozens of subjects.  A must visit for individuals or groups seeking information on MCS and other environment topics.  EHN's action page, covering diverse health topics, generally with deadlines attached. For example, EHN's FDA petition regarding Eternity by Calvin Klein. 
Protect all Children's Environment PACE exists to respond to the need for comfort and support by pesticide victims providing support to fellow pesticide survivors on an all volunteer, not-for-profit basis. There are no charges for information, counseling or other services.  PACE is unique in that true empathy is expressed through shared experience. 
Mothers Organized To Stop Environmental Sins M.O.S.E.S is a citizen's group moved to action so that our families and especially our children can live a life free of fear and exposure to toxic substances. M.O.S.E.S. is about citizens rightfully in charge of their own community and future.
Californians for Alternatives to Toxics (CATs) CATs was founded in 1982 by community groups throughout Northern California to serve as a resource center for information and action about hazardous chemicals, especially pesticides, and to promote alternatives to their use. Researches forest pesticide use, Raw wood imports, roadside herbicides,methyl bromide and much more. 
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility Studies and information to further educate the medical community on the linkages between environmental exposures and health.  Assist community groups with technical issues relating to human health and environmental exposure. and more...
Environmental Illness Society of Canada  EISC's mission is to provide education, support families dealing with this illness.  Site provides education and supportive links.  Also highlights legislation which impacts issues on environmental illness.
Infoventures.com - environmental health questions The Environmental Health Clearinghouse provides substantive information and key documents on a variety of environmental health issues.
Northwest Coalition For Alternatives To Pesticides (NCAP) The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems.
The Campaign to Label GE Foods Leading a national grassroots campaign to convince Congress to label genetically engineered foods
Washington Toxics Coalition The Washington Toxics Coalition is a non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to protecting public health and the environment by identifying and promoting alternatives to toxic chemicals.
Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP) Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific is one of the five regional centres of PAN International - a global coalition of  citizens' groups and individuals, who are working to promote sustainable agriculture, and oppose the use of pesticides
The Hunger Site Donate food at not cost to you.  Feed the world.
Mindfully The goal of mindfully.org is to provide information that people on limited budgets who would not obtain this information otherwise. Mindfully.org is to be used as a nonprofit research tool. There are over 3,500 files presently, and that number grows daily. Thanks to an understanding host we are allowed to grow. 
Truth in Labeling Anything and everything about processed free glutamic acid (MSG).  The Truth in Labeling Campaign is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to have all food clearly labeled.
Monsanto vs Schmeiser Percy Schmeiser is a farmer from Bruno, Saskatchewan Canada whose Canola fields were contaminated with Monsanto's Round-Up Ready Canola.  Monsanto's position is that it doesn't matter whether Schmeiser knew or not that his canola field was contaminated with the Roundup Ready gene and that he must pay their Technology Fee.
The Power Hour Dedicated to helping Gulf War Veterans and providing information on other important topics.
Society Targeting Overuse of Pesticides (STOP) British Columbia based group that is working to end aerial spraying for moths.  Contains valuable information on the pesticide Bt and more.
Action Network for Pesticides and their Alternatives
in Latin America- RAP-AL
(Spanish and English)
Network of organizations, institutions, associations and individuals that oppose the indiscriminate use of pesticides; support viable alternatives in the development of sustainable agriculture, and present proposals to reduce the use of agro-chemicals. RAP-AL forms part of the international "Pesticide Action Network" (PAN), that works on pesticide issues, and has regional offices in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe.
AIR SOS Individual Site from Japan... Asking for help.
Coromandel Indag Products Employees Union A small union in India which worked for a large multinational corporation manufacturing pesticides, now asks for help and offers help to those workers who have been poisoned.
Organic Consumers Association Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, and Sustainability.
Center for Health Environment and Justice CHEJ believes in environmental justice, the principle that people have the right to a clean and healthy environment regardless of their race or economic standing. 
Texans for Alternatives to Pesticides Our mission is "to educate the public and public officials about the harmful effects of pesticides, and about safer alternatives for use in schools, homes, and public areas"
Louisiana Pesticides
and Bug Wars
Articles and Research links.  By a citizen who has been poisoned.
Southfork Groundwater Taskforce The South Fork Groundwater Task Force is an all-volunteer not-for-profit organization made up of concerned citizens from the Towns of Southampton and East Hampton (Long Island, New York). Its goal is to protect the South Fork's groundwater from contamination, depletion and misuse. 
Stop Aerial Spraying Auckland New Zealand is not "green" .  Citizens organized to product themselves from continued aerial poisoning. 

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