Fight Asthma, Ask Your Child's School to Say No to Pesticides
Please consider sending a postcard to ask your child's school
not to spray pesticides that contribute to childhood asthma.
Download the "For My Child's Health" postcard or contact Beyond
Pesticides, 202-543-5450 for hardcopies. We know that this is it
the busy back-to-school time of year and hope everything is
going well! It is also the perfect time of year to remind
schools that you are concerned about the use of pesticides in
their facilities and on their grounds and the effectiveness of
non-toxic pest management approaches. To that end, we have, with
the School Pesticide Reform Coalition, put together the attached
card that we would like you to send to your school in an effort
to nurture the involvement of health staff. Please consider
sending the card to your school. See list of parents and groups
participating in the campaign launch. The timing of this effort
could not be better. Two important studies this summer confirm
the need to act now to