Non Toxic Encinitas

The Bees and Other Creatures of My Childhood Are Disappearing So are my memories of them. By David Van Biema Mr. Van Biema is a former religion writer at Time....Continue reading

We’re fighting everyday for a better farming system and you can, too! Simple tweaks to your daily meals can make ALL the difference. That’s why we’re joining ASPCA for a week-long #FactoryFarmDetox! Learn more and participate at http://aspca.org/detox!

Because atrazine disrupts hormones, it's not surprising that epidemiological studies find associations between exposure to the herbicide and reproductive effects including increased risk of miscarriage, reduced male fertility, low birth weight, increased chance of any birth defect, and higher incidence of abdominal defects;

It's a fruit-for-all. Learn more about how agriculture is going urban: https://wef.ch/2EA66C2

THIS IS MADDENING: Bayer shares rose 3.5% today, reaching their highest level in 14 months, after the U.S. government said that a $25 million Roundup trial decision against the company should be reversed.

Identifying ongoing risk to endangered species, the environmental group Center for Biological Diversity is suing California pesticide regulators to cancel the r...egistration of four rodenticides in California. The suit seeks to expand the prohibition of use by the general consumer to include agricultural users and licensed pest-control operators. The group calls for protection of the endangered San Joaquin kit foxes, California condors, and 11 other endangered species from these rat poisons. https://beyondpesticides.org//environmental-group-goes-to/

Breaking: Responding to an emergency petition filed by the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and the Center for Biological Diversity, today the U.S. ...Fish and Wildlife Service announced a positive 90-day finding for the Bethany Beach firefly and is initiating a full status review of the species. This means that this critically imperiled speciesthreatened by coastal developmentis one step closer to becoming the first firefly in the United States to be considered for Endangered Species Act protection by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Protection for this firefly can’t come soon enough, said Candace Fallon, petition coauthor and senior conservation biologist at the Xerces Society. We’re on the brink of losing a unique piece of Delaware’s heritage. Read the full press release here: https://xerces.org//unique-delaware-firefly-one-step-close Previous blog post on the topic: https://xerces.org/blog/firefly-species-facing-extinction (Photo: Xerces Society / Emily May)

There is now science from our community to back up what residents already know and experience to be true.

"It's habitat loss, we're paving over many things, how we live within the environment. Also the use of pesticides is a biggee. It's easy to get something over the counter and not realize the effect we're having..."

From roadsides, from yards, from wildlife refuges, even from plants bought at storesdoesn’t matter from whereit’s all loaded with chemicals. We have previous...ly suggested that pesticides are involved in the decline of low elevation butterflies in California, but the ubiquity and diversity of pesticides we found in these milkweeds was a surprise, said Matt Forister, PhD, a butterfly expert, biology professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. See more