Ladera Ranch is a beautiful community filled with families that want to provide a safe and healthy environment for their children and pets. Unfortunately, we are not providing the healthiest environment possible. Other cities across Southern California have adopted better plans and we want Ladera Ranch to be a leader in making a safer community for our families.

Currently, Ladera Ranch’s HOA maintained property is routinely sprayed with endocrine disrupting and carcinogenic pesticides . Non-Toxic Ladera Ranch was able to ban the use of Roundup which contains the active ingredient glyphosate but other Pesticides Speedzone, active ingredient 2,4-D and Quicksilver, active ingredient Carfentrazone-ethyl, are currently being used in Ladera Ranch.

Impact on our Children

"We’ve been studying the impact of toxins on children for the past 30 years and reached the inescapable conclusion: little things matter. We’ve discovered that extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development. The American Academy of Pediatrics states that there is “no safe level of pesticide exposure for children.” - Non Toxic Neighborhood's advisor Dr. Bruce Lanphear

Proposed Plan

1. O’Connell to provide LARMAC a list of where they plan to spray prior to spraying.
2. LARMAC to post it on Ladera Life so all residents are aware of when and where. This will be done in the interim until an Integrated Pest Management program (IPM) has been adopted in Ladera Ranch.
3. LARMAC to review the research Non-Toxic Ladera Ranch provided on Integrated Pest Management.
4. Provide IPM companies to the residents of Ladera Ranch for residential usage.
5. Work with LARMAC to adopt an Integrated Pest Management program

We are asking all residents in Ladera Ranch to sign this petition to put a plan in place to remove these harmful pesticides from Ladera Ranch for the health of their children, pets and themselves.  

Non Toxic Neighborhoods's Advisors:

Bruce Blumberg, Professor of Developmental and Cell Biology in UCI’s School of Biological Sciences and Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. “The major challenge with showing that a chemical causes cancer in humans [as opposed to animals] is that the cancer typically develops many years after exposure.” Bruce Blumberg

Bruce Lanphear MD, MPH, Epidemiologist, Professor Simon Fraser University Director of Children’s Health and Environmental "Toxins can have a life-long impact on children. We’ve also discovered that even extremely low levels of toxins can impact brain development. By allowing children to be exposed to toxins or chemicals of unknown toxicity, we are unwittingly using our children in a massive experiment." Bruce Lanphear

Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP, Dean for Global Health. Professor of Preventive Medicine and Pediatrics Arnhold Institute for Global Health Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai “Pregnant women, infants and young children are especially vulnerable to toxic chemicals in their environments. Even extremely low-dose exposures during these vulnerable periods in early life can result in lasting damage. This is why it is so important to protect the most sensitive among us. By protecting them, we preserve the health of all.” Philip J. Landrigan, MD, MSc, FAAP

Dean Baker, MD, MPH Director, Center for Occupational and Environmental Health Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology University of California, Irvine

For more information, please visit our website: www.nontoxicladeraranch.org

 

Thank you,

Non-Toxic Ladera Ranch