Links

Environmental/Social Justice

Pesticide Action Network: Focuses on alternatives to pesticides and reducing the use of pesticides in North America.

Women’s Cancer Resource Center: Focuses on environmental news stories connected to cancer.

Californians for Pesticide Reform: Focuses on protecting the environment and human health from the dangers of pesticide use; provides pesticide database.

Environmental Working Group: Provides information on environmental health; especially reports on the danger of chemicals and pesticides on human health.

Natural Resources Defense Council: Focuses on protecting the planet's wildlife and wild places and ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

Health

Physicians for Social Responsibility: Health care professionals devoted to environmental health; provides studies about environmental dangers.

Department of Pesticide Regulation: Government agency with the mission of regulating pesticide sales and use; provides reports and pesticide use information.

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment: Government agency that provides scientific evaluation of risks posed by hazardous substances.

Department of Health Care Services: Government agency that provides general information about public health.

Environmental Protection Agency: Federal agency that protects human health and safeguards the natural environment; provides leadership on nation's environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts.

American Academy of Pediatrics: Dedicated to the health of children.

The Association of Occupational & Environmental Clinics: Improves the practice of occupational and environmental health through info sharing and collaborative research; provides a resources library and epidemiology tools.

Society for Occupational and Environmental Health: Working to reduce occupational and environmental health hazards through the presentation of scientific data and the dynamic exchange of information across institutions and disciplines.

EnviRN: Resources supporting nursing professionals seeking information on environmental health and nursing.

Agricultural

AG Futures Alliance The Ag Futures Alliance (AFA) is working to ensure that agriculture, community, and the environment will thrive indefinitely. All three elements are essential to the health and wellbeing of California and the nation’s food system.

Community Alliance with Family Farmers: Building a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice.

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture: Dedicated to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just and humane; focuses on promoting organic agriculture.

Sustainable Agricultural Working Group: Coalition dedicated to building and strengthening the movement for a sustainable and socially just food system in California; promotes federal policy that benefits small-scale growers and sustainable and organic agriculture.

California Certified Organic Farmers: Certifies organic farms; provides info about the certification process.

Organic Farming Research Foundation: Sponsors research related to organic farming practices; provides resources to educate the public and decision-makers about organic farming issues.

Farmworker

California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation

California Rural Legal Assistance: Defender of the rights of the farmworker community in California.

United Farm Workers: Public advocacy for farmworkers; organized in order to improve working conditions and provide legal and legislative protection for the poorest.

Farmworker Justice Fund: Works to improve the living and working conditions of migrants and seasonal farmworkers throughout the U.S.

Studies

Study links pesticide to male infertility

Poisons on Pets : Hazards from Flea and Tick Products

Putting Children First: Making Pesticide Levels In Food Safer For Infants and Children

Trouble on the Farm: Growing Up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities

An Anthropological Approach to the Evaluation of Preschool Children Exposed to Pesticides in Mexico