A Big Win on “Ending Pesticides" !!

A Big Win on “Ending Pesticides" !!
There is light at the end of the tunnel.

All of the effort that you all have been making through sending letters, making phone calls as well as the pressure from the Earth Guardian youth who have been touching the hearts of the City Council members has moved the City to finally agree to have Chip Osborne, the turf specialist from new York, come to Boulder and do workshops with the City and the University the first week in July, to train everyone how to manage parks without pesticides.

Scott Spiegel who has helped arrange this is also trying to get the County to agree to attend as they are responsible for making decisions about what is used in the open space areas. Scott has arranged for Patti Wood, from Grassroots Environmental Education to come as well, and also do workshops with the City and University Administrative Personnel. They were the ones who were responsible for putting into place "The Safe Child Playing Field Act" which was voted in by the city of New York to end the use of pesticides in parks, schools, and daycare centers.

It will take a little time to make the transition from pesticides to a pesticide free zone community, and to insure that we continue in this direction we need to keep the pressure on. The Earth Guardians plan to continue going into the City Council and Xiuhtezcatl and some of the kids would like to organize hundreds of people to show up at one of the places they plan to spray and get the media their as well to let them know we are serious.

On the City of Boulder Website, I am sure most of you know that they post every Friday where and what they will be spraying the following week.

Anyone up for helping us mobilize 1,000 people to join us in the Park? Great work everyone! Together we can create the kind of City we and our children deserve to live in!

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