- Technical
- SNAP
- Alternatives
- Pesticides
- Organics
- Landlord sprays
- The city had my yard sprayed for weeds. What can I do?
- Yard Sprayed by Mistake or damaged by neighbourhood spray
- Working on a group project to stop our school from using cosmetic pesticides
How to move my landlord, school, condo to alternatives?
Q 1. My landlord, school, condo is planning to spray. What can I do to make them choose alternatives?
- I understand from several people living in public housing or condos in Regina that talking to the other tenants and getting them to sign a petition indicating they do not want pesticide (or herbicide) or whatever spraying has been working for many.
- Then the petition can be presented to the administration or condo association. It might be harder in a condo association, as owners may be a lot more concerned about the appearance of the property.
- You can take information about alternatives to other condo owners and the administration.
- Then bring the documents to the town office, administration, etc. with a friendly note. Confrontations rarely work.
"If you don’t get any feedback from the handouts, let me know. I’ll be happy to discuss some more poignant strategies." Paul Tukey (10/26/2009). Paul Tukey is the author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual for land owner. He also has a very well explained DVD on organic lawn care and a web site: http://www.safelawns.org/blog/ (link lost) Book is still very good.
- Follow the Leader: How to Talk to Your Neighbors About Pesticides (lost te link)
- Pesticides in Rentals and Condos (JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE REFORM/ FALL 1996 • VOL.16, NO. 3
- Seven Steps Towards Successful Negotiation (JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE REFORM/ SPRING 2000 • VOL. 20, NO. 1) (lost link)
- Insuring That the House You Buy is not Contaminated
- Extra how to information
Regina
Unfortunately, at present, I cannot recommend a particular company that offers organic lawn care in Regina as they mostly do not return my calls when I ask for that type of information. On Saturday at the Organic Gardening class I gave at Sherwood library, one young man said he had started a lawn care business last summer and really wants to go organic.
Enviromasters and a few oter companies offers a 100% organic and pesticide-free program and they have web sites but, likely, if most of their business is still chemical, they would use the same tank trucks for both and that puts in question the organic part.
Additional Information
National Coalition for Pesticide-Free Lawns have a lot of alternatives informations and Tools for Change section.