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2022: PFC campaign meetings and updates
On this page we will upload a rolling record of meetings and other updates about our campaign in 2022. Our records for 2021, 2020 and...
Herbicide Spraying in Cambridge's Herbicide-Free Ward? PFC Press Release
1 April 2022. Pesticide-Free Cambridge Press Release regarding suspected herbicide spraying in Newnham, one of Cambridge’s two...
PFC Press Release on Cambridge City Council ECSM 27.01.22 & Herbicide Reduction Plan
31 January 2022. Response by Pesticide-Free Cambridge (PFC), Cllr Katie Porrer (Liberal Democrat, Market Ward), Cllr Cheney Payne...
2021: PFC campaign meetings and updates
On this page you'll find a rolling record of meetings and other updates about our campaign in 2021. Our records for 2022 (current year)...
2020 (and earlier): PFC campaign meetings and updates
On this page you'll find a rolling record of meetings and other updates about our campaign in 2020 and previous years. Our records for...
Death of 11 year old following exposure to pesticides
Why isn't this story of the tragic death of 11 year old Fatiha Sabrin in her London home, and the hospitalisation of her mother and other...
Uk Bird Red List DOUBLES in just 25 years
In summer, Cambridge is lucky to have House Martins nesting in King's College entrance and Swifts screaming above Arbury. But these two...
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...
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...
Pesticide-Free Cambridge: Books We Love
Here we are collating the books that we have been featuring on our Facebook page under our Books We Love (in no particular order) Series....
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...
Helping Cambridge schools to go pesticide-free, & we don't mean just herbicides
As well as working with City and County councillors to phase out herbicides on verges, streets and pavements in Cambridge, we're also in...
Freedom of Information request & response (4 June): 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...
Poems, artwork and other creative offerings on pesticides, ecology and human health
Here we feature artwork, poetry and creative writing on the theme of pesticides, ecology and human health. Please contact us on...
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...
From gnats to bats, via newts and frogs: seeing biodiversity flourish in real time
On the occasion of World Biodiversity Day, Sat 22 May 2021, Ben writes about the Cambridge pond restoration project that he's been...
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...
Our petition to make Cambridge pesticide-free has 388 signatures!
Many thanks to everyone who has signed and shared our petition to make #Cambridge#pesticide free. We now have 388 signatures but still...
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...