Beyond Pesticides' program of science, policy, and action takes on the well-defined threats from fossil fuel-based pesticides and fertilizers—widespread illness, biodiversity collapse, and the climate crisis.

Click here to read a special message and letter of thanks from Executive Director Jay Feldman! 

It begins in a community park, a playing field or a schoolyard for children. It is here where we look at how the land is being managed and begin the process of creating, with hands-on assistance, a model for management practices.

Why do we start here? This effort directly relates to (i) the health of families, children, and pets, (ii) the protection of pollinators, wildlife, and biodiversity, (iii) clean water and air, and (iv) an opportunity to tackle the climate crisis by eliminating petrochemical pesticide and fertilizer emissions and, additionally, drawing down atmospheric carbon.

Our program at Beyond Pesticides informs the steps helpful to the adoption of this model, informed with science and the access to experts in practices that adopt foundational principles of protecting health and the environment that supports life. 

Your gift to Beyond Pesticides supports our three pillars: 

• We are values-based. We start with the notion that we can and must protect the health of people and ecosystems, and confront the existential environmental crises that threaten life. 
• We are science-based. We track the latest scientific literature and make it available in simple language, empowering communities to act.
• We are practice-based. We collaborate with community decision makers and land managers on a plan of action, imparting the skills to adopt organic practices in sync with nature.  

The process of foundational change has begun in dozens of communities, where Beyond Pesticides is providing its technical support to both rally the community and provide land management skills. Our goal is to facilitate the transition to organic land management practices in hundreds of communities in the next five years until we reach a tipping point to eliminate these toxic practices in communities nationwide over the next decade. 

I ask you to please consider supporting Beyond Pesticides to meet the urgency of the moment and expand our work to an exponentially greater number of communities in the coming year. We can do it with your support. 

Without the support of committed people like you, our vital work to save people and the planet—and end the use of toxic pesticides and synthetic fertilizers within 10 years—would not be possible. Thank you! 

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