Sport and businesses

Oct 18, 20221 min read

PFC meetings with businesses and service providers

19 Oct 2022: PFC meeting with This Land PFC (JS & BG) meeting with This Land to discuss ways of embedding pesticide-free management...

Jul 30, 20221 min read

Sports clubs and biodiversity

One of the areas of urban pesticide-use we at Pesticide-Free Cambridge are currently focusing on is the use of insecticides, herbicides...

Dec 20, 20211 min read

PFC meeting with PAN-UK Pesticide-Free Towns team, 20 Dec 2021

PFC meeting with PAN-UK Pesticide-Free Towns campaign to discuss our recent FB post (2 Dec 2021) on PAN-UK's pesticide-free supermarkets...

Dec 2, 20212 min read

PAN-UK's Supermarkets and Pesticides Rankings

Update (25 Jan 2022) A quick update on our post below from 2 Dec 2021. We were grateful to have the opportunity to meet with PAN-UK's...

Aug 5, 20211 min read

Golf with some poison?

Fancy a bit of golf, mixed with some carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and endocrine-disrupting pesticides? Great article, with focus on North...

Jul 1, 20212 min read

The unhealthy link between football and pesticides

Playing sport to keep fit and healthy on a pitch laced with poison? Spot any inconsistency here?! With the European Cup fever, football...

May 15, 20213 min read

Waitrose's toxic gardening section: supermarkets need to stop normalising synthetic pesticides

Why is Waitrose still selling #pesticides when they made a big show of removing glyphosate from their shelves in 2016? The gardening...

May 14, 20211 min read

Seasonal aisle in Sainsbury's: chocolate eggs, santas and pesticides

What a reflection of the warped relationship between humans and 'nature' when the gardening shelves in supermarkets consist mainly of...

Apr 30, 20211 min read

Wasps are not useless! Please don't poison them.

Recent research demonstrates without a doubt that wasps are as essential to #biodiversity as #bees are. Unfortunately for the #wasps, as...

Jan 29, 20211 min read

PFC - Cambridge Friends of the Earth meeting, 29 Jan 2021: Hauxton Bayer factory site

PFC meeting with Cambridge Friends of the Earth to discuss the alleged contamination of the Cam through runoff via the Riddy stream...