On this Election Day, we're mindful of the many ways we have power in our democracy – certainly with our vote. We also do so in the choices we can make daily – supporting needed change in our state legislature, educating public officials for better decision-making, all the choices we make to live pesticide-free, which also care for the survival of other species; when we buy organic and support the food system needed for our changing world to sharing important news and information with family and friends. All of these acts make a difference – in our own lives and in our society as we envision and empower healthy regenerative change in our world. 

November is synonymous with Thanksgiving, and now Giving Tuesday. There is no shortage of need but thankfully, many good organizations and people are working for our common well-being. So too, is Maryland Pesticide Education Network (MPEN). We are the only state organization taking on the “merchants of death” who poison our earth, our Bay, our children, and all of creation. MPEN is a small but mighty organization that has lead the nation in state pesticide protection laws and was the first, with national organization PEER, to test and find pesticides to be contaminated with the ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS. Our suspicions that manufacturers are adding PFAS as a surfactant to pesticides have now been confimed (see the Civil Eats article in News & Views). As Maryland Pesticide Education Network’s executive director Ruth was quoted in the article saying, “Not everybody you know is buying carpets with PFAS in them, and not everybody is exposed to firefighting foam, but everybody is exposed to pesticides, whether they like it or not” – thanks to a billion pounds of pesticides a year used across 900 million acres in the U.S.

Please make a donation to help us continue our work in the upcoming Maryland General Assembly to address this PFAS in pesticides issue. As always, we are very thankful for all the ways you support a healthier pesticide-free life, state, and planet, and the Maryland Pesticide Education Network and our Smart on Pesticides Coalition!

Please help support our work to protect our babies, bees, and the Bay! 

See what’s ahead and what we can do about Climate Change, Pesticides & Biodiversity. Watch this excellent 20-minute presentation by Dr. Kendra Klein, from MPEN’s Nov 3rd stakeholder conference. Watch Now

Please help support our work to protect our babies, bees, and the Bay!