Healthy Lawns
The Healthy Lawn Story- The Environment is Healthy People
- Legislative Changes Afoot
- People Still Love their Lawns
- The Environment is the Economy
- What the EAC is doing
Help make Nova Scotia Free of Cosmetic Pesticides
Did you know that none of Nova Scotia's municipalities, other than Halifax, are allowed to ban cosmetic pesticide use? This election is a key time to win a commitment to ban the sale and use of cosmetic or lawn pesticides in Nova Scotia. (This has already been achieved in Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island.) It will also happen in New Brunswick soon.
Call each candidate in your riding. Let them know that you want both their personal commitment and that of their party to enact a province wide pesticide ban, if they form the government. Ask for a response.
Ask this question when candidates come to the door, or at all party meetings. "Will your party adopt legislation banning the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides if you form the government?"
Educate. Use the information in this publication to educate your candidates, neighbors and friends about why we need a pesticide ban now. Pesticide Free Nova Scotia material is also available on line here.
Involve Others. Once you have called your candidates, ask two friends to do the same. Nova Scotia politicians need to know that protecting children with a ban on the sale and use of pesticides has wide support.
What else you can do: See the Built Environment Committee's Actions page or visit our Go Wild website for information on reducing the size of your lawn and creating landscapes that help protect our native plants and wildlife. You can also find information and inspiration on the Pesticide Free Ontario website.
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Special thanks to the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment for its generous program grant. Please visit their website to learn more about the links between environment and human health.
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Professor Bill Freedman explains the environmental and aesthetic benefits to his grass-free lawn, made up entirely of native species in the heart of south end Halifax. Video by Video by KM Productions.
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Canadian Cancer Society's Fight Back against Cosmetic Pesticides in Nova Scotia
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Inka Milewski, science advisor to Conservation New Brunswick, links cancer and pollution, including pesticides, based on three years researching cancer rates in 14 New Brunswick communities.
Built Environment Committee
Phone: (902) 442-0300
Fax: (902) 405-3716
The Built Environment Committee meets the second Thursday of every month at 5:30pm at the EAC. All are welcome at our monthly meeting.
