🍀 A. Stop toxic pesticides to protect our children, water, birds and wildlife, ecosystems, healthy soils, environment and climate.
Join hundreds of cities, counties, universities, schools, HOAs… that do not allow toxic pesticides.
Use the City of Malibu’s Earth Friendly Management policy as an example of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) plan that stops synthetic/man-made pesticides and fertilizers in the city limits. Please watch this video on Pesticide Free Parks.
🔎CleanEarth4Kids.org Team 5 Stop Toxic Pesticides page
🌼Call or send a message to your US representative to support PACTPA (Protect America’s Children From Toxic Pesticides). Click here to find your representative.
🌼Call or email Consuelo Martinez, Escondido City Councilmember District 1
contcmartinez@escondido.org. 760-839-4638
Example:
Dear Councilmember Martinez,
Please stop toxic pesticides on public land in Escondido. All kids, people, birds and wildlife should be safe in Escondido. Our air, water and land should be safe, not poisonous.
🌼Tell the EPA to restrict toxic noenicitinoid pesticides that are wiping out bees and other pollinators and threatening our food supply. Click here to sign the petition.
🍀 B. Please pass a public smoking ban, like the city of Encinitas, CA, and others.
Please pass a multi-family building ordinance to stop smoking and vaping.
Please stop the sale of all smoking products, like Manhattan Beach, Beverly Hills and others. Protect our lungs, hearts, brains and lives from toxic 2nd and 3rd hand smoke.
(Cigarette butts, e-cigarettes and vapes are toxic plastic waste that poison water, birds, wildlife and our environment.)
🔎Team 3: Smoking and Vaping Hurt Your Lungs page of CleanEarth4Kids.org
🔎 Team 3: Clean Air Saves Lives page of CleanEarth4Kids.org
🍀 C. Please protect our health from toxic wood smoke. Please stop wood smoke on public land and stop wood burning fireplaces & stoves in new construction.
Please click here for our Stop Wood Smoke video, created by Judith on our Youth Board.
🔎 More Info Team3: No Wood Smoke page
🍀 D. Please stop plastic grass/artificial/synthetic turf. Toxic chemicals, PFAS “forever chemicals,” lead, and heavy metals have been found. Synthetic turf has a much higher injury rate. That is why the NFL players union wants to play on real grass and the US Women’s Soccer Team sued to play on real grass like the US men’s team.
🔎More Info on Team 5: Stop Synthetic/Artificial Turf page, Team 5: Stop PFAS on CleanEarth4Kids.org
🍀 E. Stop the sale, use and storage of leaded aviation fuel. There is NO safe level of lead. Please click here to sign on to our letter.
Lead is especially toxic to children and fetal development. It damages children's brains and nervous system, lowers IQ scores, slows their growth and development, harms muscle coordination, speech, language and causes behavior problems. And these impacts are lifelong.
Approximately 70% of airborne lead in the U.S. comes from piston-engine aircraft. These aircraft are the largest remaining source of lead pollution in our air.
Click here for more info, or info from the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Help us #GetTheLeadOut!
🍀 F. Please set a 100% renewable energy goal and please pass a building electrification ordinance.
#ElectricNotGas #ElectrifyEverything #CleanAirSavesLives #ClimateAction
Natural gas (methane) is a dangerous air pollutant that harms lungs and climate.
Here is a link to our Dangers of Natural Gas video, created by our youth.
🔎 More Info on our Team 3: Clean Air Page and our Action Plan for Cities…
🍀 G. Clean Air Saves Lives. Please install No Idling and No smoking signs.
🔎 More Info: Team3: No Idling Page, Team 3: Clean Air Page, and Contests pages on CleanEarth4Kids.org.