1. Seattle phased out the most hazardous dozens of pesticides in city usage by 6-30-00, including 2,4-D, Dursban & Snapshot. 2. In 1996 the Danish EPA announced that approximately 100 agrochemicals considered to have estrogenic effects will be phased out before 2000. see: http://www.pmac.net/denmark.htm 3. "The problem is people think if something is legally approved and sold, then it must be safe," said Libuse Gilka, Canadian doctor and pesticide specialist. "They don't realize that those approving these things are only slowly learning about the side effects." see: http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0129/baard.shtml 4. "Unfortunately, pesticide use does not end at your propertyline; that goes into the water table, it goes into the water source and eventually it comes back into our bodies," said Toronto health board chairman Joe Mihevc. The Supreme Court of Canada recently upheld a bylaw regulating pesticide use passed by Hudson, Quebec (i.e., only to be used such as for a pest infestation uncontrollable by other methods and when public health is threatened). Quebec's environmental minister seriously is considering province-wide ban on aesthetic/cosmetic pesticide use. see: http://toronto.globalty.com/ont/news/stories/news-87769720010718-060705.html see: http://toronto.globalty.co9m/ont/news/stories/news-85795420010705-060745.html 5. Chromated copper arsenate (CCA) is used as wood preservate in 98% of USA outdoor wood. "Industry as a whole could make a change to non-arsenic-based preservatives at $40,000 per treatment plant." Sweden, Germany and 11 other nations have banned or restricted CCA use. see: http://time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,166864,00.html 6. Tables of specific toxins and their risk level, courtesy mostly US EPA, is at http://www.metrokc.gov/hazwaste/ipm/ipmback2.htm#sec6 General news of this King County project pushed by Seattle is at http://www.metrokc.gov/exec/news/1999/1006993.htm 7. San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department in 1994-5 used 3900 pounds solid pesticide and 64 gallons liquid. In 1997 the level fell to 23 pounds + 8 gallons of hazardous products. see: http//www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/examiner/archive/2000/07/26/NEWS12179.dtl 8. Dow Chemical recently agreed with EPA to stop making Dursban; no retail sales after 12-31-01 allowed. see: http://www.ecologic-ipm.com/alternatives_effective.html 9. Kings County offers a collection-for-disposal site of hazardous wastes. In spring 1999 its Bellevue, WA site received for free public disposal some 22,000 pounds, with DDT, Diazinon and 2,4-D topping the list. The program continues, courtesy Washington State Dept of Agriculture. see http://www.metrokc.gov/procure/green/bul37.htm#2 10. "630. They will ask, 'How can we best serve on Earth to effect the utmost benefit at present?' One must restore the health of Earth. By innumerable ways, one must carry out the world task of regeneration. One must bear in mind that people have destroyed the resources of Earth without mercy. They are ready to poison the earth and the air. They have laid waste the forests, these storehouses of prana. They have decimated animal life, forgetting that animal energy nourishes the earth. They believe that untried chemical compounds can take the place of prana and earthly emanations. They plunder the natural resources, unmindful that the balance must be maintained. They do not ponder over the cause of the catastrophe of Atlantis. They do not consider the fact that chemical ingredients must be tested over the course of a century, for a single generation cannot determine the symptoms of evolution or involution. People like to calculate races and sub-races, but the very simple idea of calculating the plundering of the planet never occurs to them. They think that by some act of mercy the weather will clear, and people will become prosperous! But the problem of restoring health does not enter their thoughts. Hence, let us love all creation! 631. The decline of the earthly garden is dangerous. No one thinks about the importance of the health of the planet. One thought about it--a single thought--would in itself produce a spatial impulse. One can grow to love the Origin of Origins and all the creations of grand thought." -Morya: Fiery World 1933 (Agni Yoga Series)