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Radio interview with CAM FM: Green Cambridge Series - 1. Biodiversity and Land Management
Many thanks, Gerry Schmidt, from CamFM for the radio interview back in May on our Pesticide-Free Colleges campaign, and our new national...
May 251 min read


Herbicide-Free Approach to Tackling Weeds in Cambridge Welcomed - and schools and university urged to follow suit, Cambridge Independent
Paul Brackley, 2025. “Herbicide-free approach to tackling weeds in Cambridge welcomed - and schools and university urged to follow suit”,...
Apr 141 min read


Chemical weed-killing back (Cambridgeshire County Council), Cambridge Independent
Article incorporating our response to Cambridgeshire County Council's reversal of their short-lived herbicide-free policy (...
Jul 30, 20241 min read


Interview with PAN-UK as part of their Pesticide-Free Towns Campaigners Profile
https://www.pan-uk.org/campaigner-voices-cambridge/
Jul 25, 20241 min read


Pesticide-Free Cambridge at River Rights Festival 2024
Pesticide-Free Cambridge were very happy to have an information stand at the Redeclaration of the River Cam's midsummer festival on 21...
Jun 21, 20241 min read


Herbicide use to end on Cambridge City Council’s Parks and Housing Areas, Cambridge Independent
Paul Brackley, 2024. “Herbicide use to end on Cambridge City Council’s parks and housing areas”, Cambridge Independent, 29 March 2024....
Mar 29, 20241 min read


Pesticide-Free Cambridge at Imaginarium Takeover of Kings College
Sun 24 March, Information stand (with On the Verge Cambridge, and Cambridge Climate Society), Imaginarium Takeover of Kings College,...
Mar 24, 20241 min read


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...
Feb 1, 20241 min read


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...
Jan 31, 20245 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...
Jan 28, 202449 min read


Pesticide-Free Cambridge and the city's Herbicide-Free trials: a brief outline, talk at Friends of Paradise Nature Reserve
Shaw , J., and B. Greig , 2023. “ Pesticide-Free Cambridge and the city's Herbicide-Free trials: a brief outline ”, Talk at Friends of...
Nov 21, 20231 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...
Jul 3, 202326 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)...
Jun 6, 20233 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...
Jun 25, 20222 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...
Jun 9, 20221 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...
May 18, 20222 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...
Nov 26, 20212 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...
Jun 17, 202110 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...
May 27, 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...
May 14, 20212 min read
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