Educational Pesticide Videos

Exposure: Environmental Links to Breast Cancer
Butterfield & Zuckerman Productions & Women and Environments Education and Development Foundation.

Examines the possibilities for cancer prevention through the phasing out of toxic substances in our environment, including pesticides. (53:33 minutes)  (416) 928-0880 -  www.when@web.ca

Lawn and Garden Pesticides: Reducing Harm 

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment ((CAPE)

A short (12 minutes) video featuring health professionals speaking about the need for restrictions on lawn and garden pesticides. 

Created for community groups to use at committee and council meetings, public events and at meetings with decision makers.

416 306-2273 -  E-mail: info@cape.ca

Growing Like a Weed
Toronto Environmental Alliance; 410 Richmond St. W., Suite 104,
Toronto, ON M5V 3A8 (30:00 minutes)

Great Lakes, Great Lawns: A homeowner's guide to growing lawns
without pesticides. (1996) Wisconsin's Environmental Decade Institute, Madison, Wisconsin
The Green Thumb Project, c/o EAGLE at 218-726-1828; E-mail: lakes@cp.duluth.mn.us;
Internet http://www.cp.duluth.mn.us/~lakes/grthumb.html

Lawn and Order
by Janis Lundman, Adrienne Mitchell; National Film Board; (1994), 49
min 22 sec; Original Title Code : 111C 9194 006

Lawn Wars
by  Christine Nielsen; Produced by: CTV Television Network W5
Series;(1991)  Length: 7 min.; Code #859-31-856   

Man Alive: The Good Fight
narrated by Jennifer Scott (CBC); VHS; Length: 23:00 (November 1996);
CBC Non-Broadcast Sales; No:  Y8L-96-10

The Nature Of Things: Toxic Legacies
by John Ritchie
VHS; Length: 50:00 (March 2001); CBC Non-Broadcast Sales; No:  xxx-01-103

Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report.
by Bill Moyers (journalist ) and  Sherry Jones (producer); Length:
120:00; (March 2001);  Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
No:  000-00-000

Witness: Sex Under Siege
by  Deborah Cadbury (BBC), Jerry Thompson  (CBC) & Hilary Armstrong
(CBC); VHS; 50 minutes; (1994) CBC International Sales
 

Harvest of Sorrow, Farm Workers and Pesticides - Part I: Fieldworkers

In the video, farm workers and their families tell their own stories of pesticide-related health problems, such as serious poisoning, death, childhood cancer, birth defects, and brain damage. The video describes how pesticides enter the body, the symptoms of poisoning, ways to minimize exposure, and includes interviews with union leaders, physicians, and a lawyer advocating changes in pesticide laws and usage needed to protect farm workers. (30 minutes)   http://www.pesticides.org/hsindex.html