{"id":15542,"date":"2015-05-01T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=15542"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:54:24","slug":"california-mom-successfully-gets-cancer-causing-herbicide-eliminated-from-community-you-can-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2015\/05\/california-mom-successfully-gets-cancer-causing-herbicide-eliminated-from-community-you-can-too\/","title":{"rendered":"California Mom Successfully Gets Cancer-Causing Herbicide Eliminated from Community- You Can, Too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Beyond Pesticides, May 1, 2015)<\/em> \u00a0A recent success in grassroots activism \u00a0comes through Tracy Madlener, a mother of two, who got \u00a0her neighborhood in Laguna Hills, California to eliminate the use of Roundup, a widely-used weedkiller. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization (WHO) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=15245\">recently classified<\/a> Roundup\u2019s active ingredient, glyphosate, as carcinogenic in people based on animal studies. The classification is technically \u201cprobably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A),\u201d  \u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iarc.fr\/en\/media-centre\/iarcnews\/pdf\/MonographVolume112.pdf\">sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity<\/a><\/em> based on laboratory studies. Gravely concerned, Ms. Madlener began her mission to eliminate the use of toxic \u00a0Roundup in her neighborhood, with some help from Beyond Pesticides, sharing her progress on a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/How-To-Create-A-Toxic-Free-Community\/799163020166225\">Facebook page \u201d\u02dcHow to Create a Toxic-Free Community\u2019<\/a> \u00a0along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hg_home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-15555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hg_home.jpg\" alt=\"hg_home\" width=\"321\" height=\"187\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hg_home.jpg 700w, https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hg_home-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/a>Just five days in she posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCEyzGAUWaZlN1Ll71ARAbEA\/videos\">video blog<\/a> about getting started: organizing, sending emails, making a to-do list, and making phone calls for research purposes. She also built up a network and informed \u00a0others in the area, contacted other moms doing similar work to ban harmful chemicals in their areas for advice, spoke with landscapers to \u00a0suggest healthier options, researched environmentally- and health-conscious alternatives to Roundup for local use, and made folders with information to hand out to her local Home Owners\u2019 Association board members, meeting them and writing personal letters to help them understand her mission.<\/p>\n<p>With summer just around the corner, grassroots activism is as important as ever in stemming the use of hazardous chemicals around the country. Beyond Pesticides has the tools necessary for activists like you to increase environmental awareness in your community through our \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/documents\/Databases.support.action.pdf\">Databases that Support Action<\/a>. We promote getting active to safeguard your community and the surrounding environment from toxic insults: teach your neighbors how to \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/lawn\/index.php\">maintain their land without toxic pesticides<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/pollinators\/index.php\">protect honeybees from neonicotinoids insecticides<\/a>, \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/infoservices\/pesticidesandyou\/documents\/TyroneHayesProtectingLife.pdf\">aquatic species from endocrine disrupting chemicals<\/a>, and the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/water\/index.php\">streams, lakes, and rivers we all depend on from the widespread use of harmful synthetic pesticides and fertilizers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Pesticides promotes these actions and many more through our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/doorway\/activisttools.php\">Tools for Change<\/a> page. This page is designed to help activists and other concerned citizens organize around a variety of pesticide issues on the local, state, and national level. Learn how to <a href=\"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/documents\/MovementFactsheet.pdf\">organize a campaign<\/a> and talk to your neighbors about pesticides with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/how-to\/index.php\">factsheets<\/a>. With these efforts, your community can join those of: Boulder, Colorado, where the first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=13462\">\u201cbee-safe\u201d neighborhood<\/a> was established; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=15343\">Portland, Oregon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=14186\">and<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=14026\">others<\/a>, where bee-killing neonicotinoids were banned; and Maryland\u2019s \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takomaparkmd.gov\/safegrow\">Takoma Park<\/a>, where all pesticides were outlawed from public and private use; as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/lawn\/activist\/\">many more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We hope you will use our resources, take action, and educate others on the ways toxic chemicals jeopardize the complex natural processes on which we rely. Through the promotion and adoption of \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/organicfood\/index.php\">alternative systems like organic<\/a>, we can work with the Earth\u2019s natural systems to produce a safer, healthier world for all living species.<\/p>\n<p>To make your community sustainable and take it off the pesticide treadmill, join Beyond Pesticides\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/\">community-based campaigns through our website<\/a>, or contact us directly at <a href=\"mailto:info@beyondpesticides.org\">info@beyondpesticides.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/althealthworks.com\/5788\/want-to-get-cancer-causing-roundup-out-of-your-community-this-california-mother-did-it-in-just-64-days\/\">AltHealthWorks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, May 1, 2015) \u00a0A recent success in grassroots activism \u00a0comes through Tracy Madlener, a mother of two, who got \u00a0her neighborhood in Laguna Hills, California to eliminate the use of Roundup, a widely-used weedkiller. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an intergovernmental agency forming part of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently classified Roundup\u2019s active ingredient, glyphosate, as carcinogenic in people based on animal studies. The classification is technically \u201cprobably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A),\u201d \u00a0sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity based on laboratory studies. Gravely concerned, Ms. Madlener began her mission to eliminate the use of toxic \u00a0Roundup in her neighborhood, with some help from Beyond Pesticides, sharing her progress on a new Facebook page \u201d\u02dcHow to Create a Toxic-Free Community\u2019 \u00a0along the way. Just five days in she posted a video blog about getting started: organizing, sending emails, making a to-do list, and making phone calls for research purposes. She also built up a network and informed \u00a0others in the area, contacted other moms doing similar work to ban harmful chemicals in their areas for advice, spoke with landscapers to \u00a0suggest healthier options, researched environmentally- and health-conscious alternatives to Roundup for local use, and made folders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,20,21,41,19,276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-california","category-chemicals","category-glyphosate","category-statelocal","category-take-action"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>California Mom Successfully Gets Cancer-Causing Herbicide Eliminated from Community- You Can, Too! - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2015\/05\/california-mom-successfully-gets-cancer-causing-herbicide-eliminated-from-community-you-can-too\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"California Mom Successfully Gets Cancer-Causing Herbicide Eliminated from Community- You Can, Too! - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Beyond Pesticides, May 1, 2015) \u00a0A recent success in grassroots activism \u00a0comes through Tracy Madlener, a mother of two, who got \u00a0her neighborhood in Laguna Hills, California to eliminate the use of Roundup, a widely-used weedkiller. 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