Current Local Campaigns

We are currently collaborating with various toxics awareness campaigns in Sonoma County and across California.  Please email us to help promote your local efforts!

Bisphenol A (BPA)

​AB-161 Solid waste: paper waste: proofs of purchase.

Let's get California to protect consumers and cashiers from the BPAs in receipts, as well as diminish the waste associated with the paper.  Use the text below to encourage the Author and Coauthor to resurrect Bill AB-161.   

Author Assembly member Ting’s phone number: (415) 557-2312 
Principal Coauthor Senator Stern’s email and phone number: Senator.Stern@senate.ca.gov (818) 876-3352

Dear Assembly member Ting and Senator Stern,
I strongly urge you to resurrect Bill AB-161.  It would be a boon to both the general population and the environment.  Consumers and cashiers would no longer be unnecessarily exposed to BPA on receipts.  Paper consumption and waste would decrease. The chances of BPA receipt paper making it into our recycled paper goods would also be diminished.  Please continue your efforts on this Bill.  Your work is appreciated.  

​Sincerely,

EMF/WiFi/5G

Pampers petition against wireless "Smart" diapers

Companies including Pampers are launching "smart high tech diapers" with sensors attached to diapers to sense wetness and track urine. The sensors work in concert with a Wi-Fi baby monitor and an app that lets parents keep track of their baby's diaper situation indicating when the baby needs to be changed.  Parents need to know about safety considerations from electromagnetic exposure when buying wireless tech devices.

Theodora Scarato: EMF/Wi-Fi in School Health 
NIH National Institutes of Health

SB 649

FACTS successfully partnered with California Alliance for Safer Technology in this campaign by reaching out to parent groups throughout the state via email and social media to educate them about this bill.

Stop 5G Sign Printable

Hold up this sign at a City Council Meeting or use it as a mask.  Let your representatives know you oppose the unchecked proliferation of 5G in your neighborhood and community spaces.   

EMF Información en Español

Siting cell towers needs careful planning

Source: Michigan Technological University
​Summary: The health impacts of radio-frequency radiation (RFR) are still inconclusive, but the data to date warrants more caution in placing cell towers. An engineering team considers the current understanding of health impacts and possible solutions, which indicate a 500-meter (one third of a mile) buffer around schools and hospitals may help reduce risk for vulnerable populations.​

Cell Towers and City Ordinances

Read to see some recent City Urgency Wireless Facilities Ordinances and also their Ordinances at-a-Glance. 

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Pesticides

GASP 

Graton Against Synthetic Pesticides (GASP) is a coalition of concerned Graton, CA residents working together to eliminate the threat of pesticide exposure to our families, laborers and children who attend Oak Grove Elementary.

Pesticide Free Petaluma

Pesticide Free Petaluma is a growing grassroots organization to urge our local officials to stop using pesticides in our local parks, fields, and public spaces. ​

SASS

Safe Ag Safe Schools (SASS) is a coalition of over 50 organizations and individuals working together to reduce the threat of pesticide exposure in the Monterey Bay area. SASS is focused on increasing grassroots pressure on policy-makers to reduce hazardous pesticide use in and around schools and residential communities. ​

USGS NAWQA: The Pesticide National Synthesis Project

The United States Geological Survey's National Water Quality Assessment (USGS: NWQA) Project has compiled a map of pesticide use in agriculture across the United States.  
"These pesticide-use estimates are suitable for evaluating national and regional patterns and trends of annual pesticide use. The reliability of estimates, however, generally decreases with scale and these estimates and maps are not intended for detailed evaluations, such as comparing within or between specific individual counties." ​​

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Plastic

California's Travel Sized Toiletry Ban Bill AB 1162

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Safer Food Packaging

Styrofoam Bans

Communities across the country have begun banning the use of Styrofoam in food packaging.  You can make a difference in your town!  Please download and edit the letter below to personalize it and send it to your mayor or representatives.   Including the legislation below can help them as a starting point.

styrofoam_ban_form_letter.docx
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Ban in Maine

Ban in Sebastopol, CA

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Schools

Toxic-Free Future Campaign

​This collaborative is spearheaded by Sonoma County Conservation Action and includes local school representatives, government leaders, and community members.
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• Nichole Warwick and Megan Kaun spoke on Women’s Spaces KPPF Radio program about their path to becoming activists in removing toxic pesticides from the schools and public spaces, where they got their strength to speak out against the use of pesticides linked to causing cancer, and persist against the resistance of entrenched establishments, and how folks can join their organizations in addressing this issue at the local level.  (click on Women’s Spaces above to listen to their talk)
• In support of Toxic Free Futures, we successfully gathered allies and advocates and worked with the cities of Santa Rosa and Windsor to ban all synthetic pesticides and herbicides in municipal areas (public held lands such as city parks, trails, etc.)
• Nichole Warwick, spoke on a panel presentation to the No Name Women's Group, addressing children's health outcomes related to the use of glyphosate and other synthetic herbicides and pesticides in Sonoma County.

Healthy Schools Sonoma County

​​This is a partnership between FACTS and Daily Acts.

• We share resources with local schools, day care facilities, and preschools about best practices for healthy learning environments.
  • Sonoma County First Five
• As part of Sonoma County Conservation Actions’ Toxic Free Futures Campaign, we successfully advocated Santa Rosa City Schools to revise their Integrative Pest Management Plan to eliminate the use of RoundUp and all other synthetic pesticides and herbicides for their 25 school campuses.
• FACTS engaged local families at a city-wide maker's faire hosted by River Montessori School in Petaluma.  We shared resources on non-toxic best practices and demonstrated principles of green chemistry through making all-natural lip balm.
• FACTS Executive Director, Nichole Warwick, is a guest lecturer in the California Global Education Program through Sonoma State University’s School of Education.  She educates teachers about environmental health, intersectional variables such as environmental and social justice, and how to create a non-toxic learning environment.