{"id":5282,"date":"2011-05-05T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=5282"},"modified":"2011-05-04T23:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T03:11:38","slug":"groups-declare-may-6-as-lawn-pesticide-awareness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2011\/05\/groups-declare-may-6-as-lawn-pesticide-awareness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups Declare May 6 Lawn Pesticide Awareness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, May 5, 2011) Over 70 international organizations, including health and environmental groups, landscapers and farmers are proclaiming tomorrow, Friday, May 6, 2011, Lawn Pesticide Awareness Day in honor of Dr. June Irwin\u2019s leading role in passage of North America\u2019s first lawn pesticide ban in Hudson, Quebec, on May 6, 1991. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ep.yimg.com\/ca\/I\/yhst-69752535200811_2152_872601\" title=\"http:\/\/ep.yimg.com\/ca\/I\/yhst-69752535200811_2152_872601\" class=\"alignright\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" width=\"175\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe town of Hudson, Quebec, and particularly the actions of June Irwin, M.D., have sent a clear signal to communities all across North America that the use of lawn and landscape pesticides is both harmful and unnecessary,\u201d said Jay Feldman, the founder of Beyond Pesticides of Washington, D.C. \u201cChemical lawn pesticides are scientifically linked to cancer in people and pets, and are known to be toxic to the nervous and immune system, endocrine disruptors, and tied to respiratory effects such as asthma. Alternative practices that rely on maintenance techniques and soil health that prevent unwanted insect and weeds are far more effective than their chemical counterparts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, for 80 percent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=1351\">Canadians<\/a> and a growing number of Americans, synthetic chemical lawn pesticides are becoming a habit of the past. In 1991, exactly six years from the first day she voiced her concerns at a town meeting, May 6, 1985, Hudson made North American history by banning synthetic lawn and garden pesticides on public and private property except farms and golf courses. Dr. Irwin, who maintains a dermatology practice in Pointe Claire, Quebec, said she began to notice rashes and other health issues related to lawn pesticides in the early 1980s. Her early warnings were ignored by the medical community and Canadian federal government, so she took matters into her own hands by attending every town meeting in Hudson, a village just to the west of Montreal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLawn pesticides are an example of people willfully, though maybe not knowingly, poisoning their neighbors,\u201d said Dr. Irwin. \u201cThese are terribly toxic substances and yet, it seemed to me, there was a conspiracy of silence. I\u2019m pleased that, to some degree, we have been able to break through that silence to get the word out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lawn pesticide industry, estimated at billions of dollars in revenue, quickly fired back at Hudson and its 5,200 citizens with a local court challenge in 1993. Yet as the lawsuit progressed through the Canadian legal system, all the way to the Supreme Court in December of 2000, public awareness and momentum was building against the use of the products that have been linked to a wide array of health and environmental maladies. In June of 2001, Canada\u2019s top court shocked the lawn chemical industry with a 9-0 decision in favor of the town\u2019s ban. Other lawn pesticide prohibitions soon followed in municipalities and provinces across Canada.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided that applying pesticides for the sake of aesthetic purposes violated the precautionary principle,\u201d said Supreme Court Justice Claire L\u2019Heureux Dube, who wrote the uncontested opinion. \u201cThere was enough evidence to suggest that lawn pesticides could be dangerous, even though there wasn\u2019t proof that lawn pesticides were dangerous in every situation. For the sake of killing dandelions it\u2019s not worth taking a chance.\u201d<br \/>\nAt first, during the early 1990s, only a few other Canadian towns followed Hudson\u2019s lead. By the time of the Supreme Court decision in 2001, about 30 municipalities had enacted bylaws similar to Hudson\u2019s, which restricted applications of pesticides for cosmetic purposes. Quebec became the first entire province to ban the products such as weed \u2019n feed and Roundup in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Heightened awareness and activity on this issue, led by the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and many other environmental and health groups, has brought lawn pesticide bans to more than 80 percent of Canada. Retail giant Home Depot voluntarily pulled synthetic lawn and garden pesticides off store shelves in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The adoption of pesticide-free and pesticide reduction policies have been gaining momentum across the country. Other examples include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=1668\">New York State Parks<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=1513\">Chicago City Parks<\/a>; 29 communities and townships in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleanwateraction.org\/programinitiative\/pesticides-free-campaign\">New Jersey<\/a>; at least 17 cities in the Northwest, covering more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pesticide.org\/pfp.html\">50 parks<\/a>; and, numerous communities throughout Massachusetts, Maine and Connecticut. This is just the tip of the iceberg, as new policies and programs are continually being implemented by local and state government entities as well as schools and homeowner associations.<\/p>\n<p>Eliminating toxic pesticides is important in lawn and landscape management, considering that of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/lawn\/factsheets\/30health.pdf\">30 most commonly used lawn pesticides<\/a>: 14 are probable or possible carcinogens, 13 are linked with birth defects, 21 with reproductive effects, 15 with neurotoxicity, 26 with liver or kidney damage, and 27 are sensitizers and\/or irritants. The most popular and widely used lawn chemical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gateway\/pesticide\/24d.htm\">2,4-D<\/a>, which kills broad leaf weeds like dandelions, is an endocrine disruptor with predicted human health risks ranging from changes in estrogen and testosterone levels, thyroid problems, prostate cancer and reproductive abnormalities. 2,4-D has also been linked to non-Hodgkin\u2019s lymphoma. Other lawn chemicals like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gateway\/pesticide\/glyphosate.htm\">glyphosate<\/a> (RoundUp) have also been linked to serious adverse chronic effects in humans. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/gateway\/pesticide\/imidacloprid.htm\">Imidacloprid<\/a>, another pesticide growing in popularity, has been implicated in bee toxicity and the recent Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) phenomena.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TAKE ACTION: <\/strong>Community activism is the best way to get your town to adopt such a policy. For assistance in proposing a policy to your city council (or its equivalent), contact Beyond Pesticides at <a href=\"mailto:info@beyondpesticides.org\">info@beyondpesticides.org<\/a> or 202-543-5450. For more information on being a part of the growing organic lawn care movement, see Beyond Pesticides <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondpesticides.org\/lawn\/\">Lawns and Landscapes<\/a> program page. Let your neighbors know your lawn and garden are organic by displaying a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopbeyondpesticides.org\/pesticide-free-zone-yard-sign.html\">Pesticide Free Zone sign<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nSIGNATORIES (as of April 28)<\/strong><br \/>\nAdvocate Precautionary Principle, Sarasota, Fla.<br \/>\nAlaska Community Action on Toxics, Anchorage, Alaska<br \/>\nAlberni Environmental Coalition<br \/>\nBC Pathways, Victoria, BC<br \/>\nBernards Township NJ Environmental Commission, Bernards Township, N.J.<br \/>\nBeyond Pesticides, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\nCanadian Cancer Society, Vancouver, Ca.<br \/>\nCanadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Toronto, Ont.<br \/>\nChildren\u2019s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br \/>\nCitizens for a Green Camden, Camden, Maine<br \/>\nCitizens for a Green Scarborough, Scarborough, Maine<br \/>\nCitizens of a Green Yarmouth, Yarmouth, Maine<br \/>\nThe Coalition of Organic Land Care Professionals, Seattle<br \/>\nComox Valley Friends of Farming<br \/>\nConnecticut NOFA, Hartford, Ct.<br \/>\nCoquitlam Pesticide Awareness Coalition, Coquitlam, BC<br \/>\nEcoJustice, Toronto, Ca.<br \/>\nThe Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Paonia, Co.<br \/>\nEnvironmental Health Fund, Jamaica Plain, Boston<br \/>\nFirst Nations Environmental Network<br \/>\nFriends of Casco Bay, Portland, Maine<br \/>\nFarmworker Association of Florida, Apopka, Fla.<br \/>\nGalveston Baykeeper, Seabrook, Texas<br \/>\nGreen Communities Canada, Peterborough, Ont.<br \/>\nGroundswell Stratford, Stratford, Ontario<br \/>\nHealthy Lawn Team, Madison, Wisconsin<br \/>\nInstitute of the Environment, Ottawa, Ont.<br \/>\nInspire Health, Vancouver<br \/>\nLawn Reform Coalition, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\nLeah Collective, Concord, N.H.<br \/>\nMaine Organic Farmers &#038; Gardeners Association, Unity, Maine<br \/>\nManitoba Eco-Network, Winnipeg<br \/>\nNatural Resources Defense Council, New York<br \/>\nNOFA Organic Land Care Program, Stevenson, Ct.<br \/>\nNorth Columbia Environmental Society, Revelstoke, BC<br \/>\nOntario College of Family Physicians, Toronto<br \/>\nOrganic Horticulture Business Alliance, Houston<br \/>\nPeople\u2019s Action for Threatened Habitats, Vancouver<br \/>\nPesticide Action Network North America, San Francisco<br \/>\nPesticide Free Kimberley, Kimberley, BC<br \/>\nPesticide Free Capitol Region District, Victoria, BC<br \/>\nPesticide Free Cranbrook, Cranbrook, BC<br \/>\nPesticide Free Columbia Valley, Sparwood, BC<br \/>\nPesticide Free Columbia Basin, Cranbrook, BC<br \/>\nPesticide Free Edmonton Coalition, Edmonton<br \/>\nPesticide Action Nanaimo, Nanaimo, BC<br \/>\nPesticide Free Zone, Kentfield, California<br \/>\nPesticide Watch, Sacramento, California<br \/>\nPhysicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, DC<br \/>\nPrince Edward Island Environmental Health Cooperative<br \/>\nProtect All Children\u2019s Environment, Marion, N.C.<br \/>\nRainfrog Amphibian Sanctuary, Roberts Creek, BC<br \/>\nRachel Carson Council, Washington, D.C.<br \/>\nRichmond Pesticide Awareness Coalition, Richmond, BC<br \/>\nSafer Pest Control Project, Chicago, Ill.<br \/>\nThe Sierra Club, Washington,D.C.<br \/>\nSierra Club of Canada<br \/>\nSierra Club BC, Victoria, BC<br \/>\nSierra Club Chinook, Calgary<br \/>\nSierra Club Connecticut, Hartford, Ct.<br \/>\nThe SafeLawns Foundation, Newport, R.I.<br \/>\nToxic Free Canada, Vancouver<br \/>\nSaskatchewan Environmental Society, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan<br \/>\nStop Targeting Overuse of Pesticides, Victoria, BC<br \/>\nToxics Action Center, Boston<br \/>\nToxics Information Project, Providence, RI<br \/>\nValley Green Pesticide Awareness, Comox Valley, BC<br \/>\nWest Coast Environmental Law, Vancouver, BC<br \/>\nWildsight, Kimberley, BC<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safelawns.org\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/may-6-to-be-lawn-pesticide-awareness-day\/\">Safe Lawns Press Release<\/a> <\/em><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, May 5, 2011) Over 70 international organizations, including health and environmental groups, landscapers and farmers are proclaiming tomorrow, Friday, May 6, 2011, Lawn Pesticide Awareness Day in honor of Dr. June Irwin\u2019s leading role in passage of North America\u2019s first lawn pesticide ban in Hudson, Quebec, on May 6, 1991. \u201cThe town of Hudson, Quebec, and particularly the actions of June Irwin, M.D., have sent a clear signal to communities all across North America that the use of lawn and landscape pesticides is both harmful and unnecessary,\u201d said Jay Feldman, the founder of Beyond Pesticides of Washington, D.C. \u201cChemical lawn pesticides are scientifically linked to cancer in people and pets, and are known to be toxic to the nervous and immune system, endocrine disruptors, and tied to respiratory effects such as asthma. Alternative practices that rely on maintenance techniques and soil health that prevent unwanted insect and weeds are far more effective than their chemical counterparts.&#8221; Now, for 80 percent of Canadians and a growing number of Americans, synthetic chemical lawn pesticides are becoming a habit of the past. 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