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Current Projects and committees looking for folks to provide input:
I. Green Landscaping Campaign: Educate and advocate for residents, schools, shopping centers and city/town park and recreation departments to implement alternatives to using pesticides especially on lawns, and alternatives to synthetic fertilizers. II. Alternative to Driving Campaign: Educate and advocate for creating safer biking/walking lanes that connect developments to schools and shopping areas, encourage cleaner buses and support ridership, incorporate expected carpooliing programs at schools and every after school activity. III. Reveal the pesticides used on public landscapes and buildings used by children to inform the school districts, towns/cities, and advocate reform. High School Interns are helping with these projects currently. IV. Work with neighboring communities of scientists and advocates who oppose spraying pesticides in the neighborhoods from helicopters and trucks to abate adult mosquitoes, a procedure that is known to be ineffective and risky. V. Oversee Contra Costa County's overuse of pesticides by the Departments of Public Works, General Services, and Agriculture. VI. Encourage School Lunch and after school programs to improve nutrition and incorporate organically grown foods whenever feasible. VII. Presentations to local service organizations, schools, home owner associations, and health clubs regarding a variety of environmental health related topics. VIII. Let's turn our local churches green! Did you know there is already an existing manual(s)?
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