Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Just say no to sludge and fracking water on food crops. From NPR: “When the EPA developed the standards for biosolids, it identified the chemicals and metals that are the greatest risk to human health and the environment and set strict concentration limits on them. (As we recently reported, the government has less strict …
We would loose one third of our crops without these hard working pollinators. Rights of Nature now! “Any ban on these damaging pesticides must go hand in hand with a fundamental reform of agriculture policy to help farmers work in harmony with nature —not against it. A major shift to agroecology is needed to allow …
SAVE THE DATE: March 24th 1-3pm, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, free event discussing toxins in your wine, concentrations of cancer causing chemicals in Sonoma County and how to “Drink the Change you Want to see”, by world expert Pam Strayer. Listed in events and multiple articles by this amazing woman on this site. …
“Organic carrots”, veggies, nuts and more that you and your family are probably consuming right now. See the video below for more brands using toxic chemicals to grow your food. To send message to your legislators to ban this use click on this link or “BAN IT” heading below and fill out the form. https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/JustBanIt From …
Food security in wine regions should be a top priority. This article suggest it is the homeowners that are pushing out young farmers but here in Sonoma, Napa, Lake and Mendocino counties it is the wine and the new emerging cannabis industry. Tourism also has huge impacts on local business and vacation rentals drive up prices …
The community has believed for years that the wonderful strawberries from Lao’s on Hwy. 12 between Sebastopol and Santa Rosa did not use pesticides. A recent article by Sonoma West Times & News has found out otherwise. Lao has been an immigrant success story and has held great community support. Maybe something was lost in …