Resources

• Beyond Pesticides "works with allies in protecting public health and the environment to lead the transition to a world free of toxic pesticides."
• No Spray Coalition.  Fighting against the indiscriminant spraying of toxic pesticides since 1999.
• Don't Spray California.  An East Bay group that advocates no use of pesticides.  See their West Nile virus page.
  
• No Spray Nashville.  Fighting against pesticide spraying in Tennessee.
• The New York Environmental Law & Justice Project.  Fighting in the courts against mass insecticide spraying.
  
• Centers for Disease Control - West Nile Virus Information.
• Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA).  " . . . works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives."
  
• Death Statistics.  Information derived from National Safety Council statistics as to death due to injury in the U.S. for the year 2000, by Mongabay.com.  Very helpful for keeping WNV statistics in the proper perspective.
• More Death Statistics.  Information from the National Safety Council as to deaths in the U.S. in 2003.  Again, perspective.
• West Nile Virus - What the Media Won't Tell You.  A compilation of facts and illustrations of lack of knowledge about WNV.  Helps to explode some of the mythology surrounding the virus.
• From West Nile Virus to SARS… Putting things in perspective.  Yet one more.
  
• The Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) contains much information on alternative methods of pest control.
  
• Specific information on Pyrethrins and PBO is found respectively at:
  www.pesticide.org/PyrethrinsPyrethrum.pdf and
  www.pesticide.org/PiperonylButoxide.pdf
• Also see basic principles of toxicology, the ABCs of Toxicology.
• A national coalition for coordinating alternatives is the Alliance for Informed Mosquito Management.
• Californians for Pesticide Reform.  Their mission is to ". . . improve and protect public health, sustainable agriculture, and environmental quality by building a movement across California that changes statewide pesticide policies and practices."
  
• The Green Schools Initiative advocates safe low/no-toxic environments for your children at school.
• The Bio-Integral Resource Center, or B.I.R.C., specializes in "finding non-toxic and least-toxic, integrated pest management (IPM) solutions to urban and agricultural pest problems."