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Real Alternatives to Toxins in the Environment (RATE) - update
Real Alternatives to Toxins in the Environment (RATE) is a registered,
non-profit organization promoting the use of safe, non-toxic. organic
alternatives to landscape pesticides within the Halifax Regional
Municipality (HRM).
RATE's Website on Chebucto Community Net (CCN) can provide you with a wide
variety of
information on non-toxic landscape methods, books and publications, news
and updates on
campaign activities, pesticide risks to human health, biological controls,
contact information for public
officials, and extensive links to many related sites.
Examples of useful website features are:
1. General Information: "Pesticide Fact Sheet," "Dear Parents...," "Poisons
in the Grass," and "Tips
for Natural and Inexpensive Lawn Care."
2. HRM Survey results (June, 1999) show 83% support a Pesticide Bylaw
3. The Ontario College of Family Physicians encourage municipalities to
pass Pesticide Bylaws
4. Sierra Club Canada's cross-country Campaign for Pesticide Reduction (CPR!)
5. HRM Drinking Water Wells: Pesticide Contamination Caution
6. How to get rid of ants, without poisoning your family, pets, and neighbours
7. Canada's Federal Commissioner of the Environment reports that Canada
can't regulate pesticides
(May 25, 1999)
This site is updated frequently and can be visited at:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/RATE
If you find this information useful and know someone else who would
appreciate this material, please forward this to them.
Thank-you,
a RATE member
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