What's your pesticide story?
Seeking Toxic Free NC Ambassadors
by Billie Karel - Vea el artículo en español
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Photo by Laura Valencia. |
Pesticides affect many of us very personally. Some of us have been made sick, or our family members have been; some have been hurt by pesticides used in our work or in our own backyards; and others have stopped using pesticides because we’ve seen first hand how much healthier our farm or garden can be without them.
Toxic Free NC is looking for people who want to share their pesticide story – with their neighbors, with decision makers, with the media, and/or with everyone over our website! Personal stories are the most powerful way to communicate with friends and neighbors about reducing pesticide use. They’re also the most effective way to communicate with elected representatives about the importance of political reforms that protect us all from pesticides.
This past summer, Toxic Free NC collected personal stories from one group of people affected by pesticides: farm workers. The result is a beautiful and powerful web video that you can see on our website at toxicfreenc.org.
Join the farm workers in the video by sharing your pesticide story. To get involved, please call Billie at 919-833-1123, or email her at
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Toxic Free NC
206 New Bern Place, Raleigh, NC 27601, (919) 833-5333, Toll-free
1-877-NO-SPRAY
, http://www.toxicfreenc.org
Mission: Toxic Free NC advocates
for alternatives to toxic pesticides in North Carolina by
empowering people to make sound decisions about their health
and environment.
Staff: Ana Duncan Pardo, Communications Coordinator;
Billie
Karel, Program Coordinator; Fawn Pattison, Executive Director; Renée Tucker, Administrative Associate; Carolina Cordona, Website En Español Intern; Christopher Grohs, Special Events Coordinator Intern; Line Jensen Buch, Outreach Coordinator Intern; Eric Andrew Smith, Outreach Coordinator Intern.
Board of Directors: Colleen
Boudreau, Treasurer; Juan Echeverria; Ghassan Hamra; Laxmi Haynes; Mindy Hiteshue; Cathy
Jones; Michelle Nowlin, President;
Annie O'Leary; Katherine M. Shea, Immediate Past President; Allen Spalt.
Emeritus Board Members: Billie Rogers, Jane Sharp MacRae,
Erick Umstead.
Community Leadership Council: Melissa Bailey, Mary James, Anna Jensen, Silvia Peterson, Juvencio Rocha Peralta.
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