County should learn from City's Herbicide-Free Trials (PFC opinion piece in Cambridge Independent)
31 Jan 2024 Many thanks to Cambridge Independent for printing our opinion piece alongside their article on Cambridgeshire County...
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Press Release following Cambridgeshire County Council's return to use of herbicides
26 January 2024 Pesticide-Free Cambridge made the following statement: “We are very disappointed by Cambridgeshire County Council’s...
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Jan 2849 min read
2022-23: PFC / Local Authority meetings & correspondence
On this page we will upload a rolling record of meetings and written correspondence with Cambridge City Council, Cambridgeshire City...
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Jul 3, 202326 min read
Pesticide-Free Cambridge - Public questions at council meetings
Record of our public questions (and answers where received) to Cambridge City Council committee meetings, 2020-2022 Public Question for...
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Jun 6, 20233 min read
Pesticide-Free Cambridge Newsletter#1: May/June 2023
6 June 2023 - Here's a quick summary of what we've been up to so far this spring / summer. 1. City Council Herbicide Reduction Plan (HRP)...
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Jun 24, 20222 min read
PFC/More Than Weeds - pavement plants event in Arbury
On Saturday 25 June, Pesticide-Free Cambridge, together with More Than Weeds, celebrated Cambridge’s pavement plants. Often dismissed as...
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Jun 8, 20221 min read
Happy Bee Streets, pesticide-free adoption scheme
Happy Bee Street signs appearing across Cambridge to indicate those community-adopted streets now being managed without the use of toxic...
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May 17, 20222 min read
Herbicide spraying again during school commute
Herbicide spraying in Cambridge at 8.17 am this morning, in the middle of the busiest school commute time, despite commitments...
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Nov 26, 20212 min read
Pesticide-free adoption of 'The Snicket', Cambridge
Pesticide-Free Cambridge member & local resident has been involved with the community-adoption of this Cambridge alleyway to save it from...
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Jun 17, 202110 min read
Freedom of Information request & response, 4/6/21: Cambridge City Council policy on herbicide use
Many thanks to the fellow campaigner who submitted the following Freedom of Information request about the City Council's policy on...
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May 27, 20212 min read
On the 114th anniversary of Rachel Carson's birthday, positive action is long overdue
What more twisted image could there be than graves sprayed to death with herbicides? In the name of ‘tidying up', we are poisoning the...
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May 13, 20212 min read
Herbicide spraying on verges in Newnham, Cambridge
Today we're focusing on recent glyphosate herbicide spraying in the #Newnham area, one of the most beautiful parts of #Cambridge, close...
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May 12, 20211 min read
Herbicide spraying season has began in Cambridge
Prominent yellow strips like these ones on Perne/Mowbray road are appearing all over #Cambridge. Such signs of #glyphosate-based...
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Jan 13, 20211 min read
PFC Petition launched, 13 Jan 2021
PFC launched our petition to City Council to Commit to phasing out all synthetic, non-agricultural pesticides - including both herbicides...
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