Nick, Author at Ceres Trust

Gates to a Global Empire

Navdanya International

SB 1602 Makes a Difference for Rural Oregonians Sick of Pesticide Drift

Chlorpyrifos Team OR State Capitol 2 2020

SB 1602 is a compilation of legislative initiatives Beyond Toxics has introduced over the past five years. Based on a decade of grassroots organizing across Oregon, we brought forward a wide variety of pressing issues for legislative review and supported many dozens of rural residents in their efforts to testify at the State Capitol to demand protections from aerial pesticide spray. Our early wins to reform the Oregon Forest Practices Act set the stage for the passage of SB 1602.

Organic Farming Research Foundation Materials

Organic Farming Research Foundation Video

Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) has produced a five-minute about how organic farmers are caring for the soil, and how this addresses climate change. The video highlights voices from the south and can be seen here.

Also, OFRF has created soil health guidebooks, webinars, past reports, and their new “Basics of Organic Farming” course, available on their education page for free.

You Got to Move!

You Got to Move!, directed by Lucy Massie Phenix and Veronica Selver, follows communities of southerners in becoming involved in social change. The Highlander Folk School, a school for community organizers, serves as the hub connecting the lives of those chronicled.

These stories live now, relevant and useful today when the people of the United States, all of us, are struggling to live and breathe, and to VOTE to save our democracy. We Got to Move!

The Cultural Conservancy Hosts a Powerful Gathering

In August 2019, we were honored to host a powerful gathering of Elders, Traditional Knowledge Holders, Native youth, farmers and community allies to come together and listen to the land… the gathering quickly became a space rich with the revitalization of language, traditional knowledge systems, Native sciences and land relationships.

Indigenous Principles of Just Transition

Indigenous Environmental Network

Recognition and Support of Indigenous California Land Stewards, Practitioners of Kincentric Ecology

Indigenous California Land Stewards Practitioners of Kincentric Ecology cover

First Nations Development Institute and California Foodshed Funders

Victory in Shafter, California

The small but mighty Kern County town of Shafter (pop. 16,988) is savoring a hard-fought victory after the California Air Resources Board (CARB) agreed that pesticides would be included in plans to reduce air emissions in the highly impacted community. With an astonishing 3 million pounds of pesticides used each year within a seven mile radius of Shafter, it came as no surprise that residents put pesticides at the top of the list of pollutants of greatest concern to them – especially those that are classified by the state as Toxic Air Contaminants.

COVID-19 Action in Molokai

When COVID-19 first hit Hawaiʻi in early March, our team immediately took steps to prepare for the virus to hit Molokai’s shores, foreseeing that it would negatively impact the island’s access to essential items. Noting that the virus disproportionately affects elderly, indigenous and Pacific Island communities, and that Molokai has few medical resources on island, we saw the need to take action early and help prevent the spread here.

Protect, Repair, Invest, and Transform

United Frontline Table