{"id":37323,"date":"2024-12-24T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=37323"},"modified":"2025-01-05T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T17:15:54","slug":"holiday-season-and-new-year-greetings-for-a-renewed-spirit-in-the-work-to-protect-health-and-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2024\/12\/holiday-season-and-new-year-greetings-for-a-renewed-spirit-in-the-work-to-protect-health-and-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Season and New Year Greetings for a Renewed Spirit Working to Protect Health and the Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

(<\/span>Beyond Pesticides<\/span><\/i>, December 24, 2024 – January 1, 2025) <\/span>We wish you a healthy and happy holiday season! The health and environmental challenges that we face as families and communities across the nation and worldwide require us to stay engaged. The stark reality of the challenges ahead energizes us at Beyond Pesticides to strengthen our program\u2014now, more than ever!\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And, we trust that you, like us, want to push forward for a livable future. In this context, please see our annual report<\/a> and summary<\/a> on the important work that we are doing, and please consider a contribution to Beyond Pesticides during this holiday season.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While the threats of health, biodiversity, and climate crises grow exponentially, the solutions we have advocated for decades are now within reach. We know how to produce food and manage land without petrochemical pesticides and fertilizers, as organic food is widely available. Beautiful parks, playing fields, and schoolyards do not require toxic chemical use. At the same time, the regulatory system underperforms, as existential health and environmental problems escalate. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And, we know that individual steps that we take to stay healthy, as important as they are, cannot protect us and the natural world, on which we depend, from involuntary petrochemical exposure through ongoing contamination of land, air, and water. The science is telling us that we can no longer tinker with chemical reduction strategies that fall short of protecting our health, biodiversity, and climate.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Your support enables us to move forward with our bold program.<\/span><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A strategy for curtailing threats to health, biodiversity, and health<\/span><\/i>\u00a0
\n<\/span>Beyond Pesticides shares the vision of people and communities that are striving to ensure a future that protects health and sustains life. We are facing existential crises\u2014the climate crisis, biodiversity collapse, and severe public health threats\u2014from cancer to neurological, reproductive, and endocrine system effects, including brain and behavioral impacts. To reverse these threats \u2014which we can do\u2014 we advance model organic solutions that eliminate billions of pounds of fossil fuel-based pesticides and synthetic fertilizers and nurture biological systems that take dangerous pollutants out of our environment, protecting health and the ecosystems that sustain life.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To meet the existential health, biodiversity, and climate crises, we provide real-time support to people and organizations, <\/span><\/b>from local to global, with up-to-date scientific findings, policy critiques, and timely initiatives, empowering strategic action with knowledge on:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n