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Help support our work to create a clean and just Oregon!
As a grassroots organization, we rely heavily on membership dues and donations from individuals like you. With your support we are able to defend your right to clean air, land and water.
Make a tax-deductible donation now and become a Beyond Toxics member. If you own a business, we can list you as a business supporter and help our community recognize you for the good work you’re already doing. Our valued businesses are also featured on our our Facebook page.
Read about our SPRING 2013 MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN…
Why Join?
Beyond Toxics is a feisty, dedicated, grassroots environmental health non-profit based in Oregon. Our primary focus is public education and advocacy for the public interest. Together with people in communities across Oregon, we work to leave a long-lasting legacy of clean air, healthy people and a toxics-free environment. (See what people are saying about us)
Benefits
As a member of Beyond Toxics, you’ll be on our email list for important legislative and campaign action alerts and on our mailing list for our semi-annual newsletter.
And…
If you sign up for a new membership or renew your membership at the $60 level, you’ll get a FREE durable organic cotton tote bag (Made in USA!)*
Interested in our Safe Public Places project? Designate your donation for that great program when you join! From the “Program Designation” drop-down option, simply choose Safe Public Places.
- How your money will be used (read about our innovative and dynamic campaigns)
- Our support is solid and broad in Oregon (2013 flyer of media coverage, testimonials, business support)
- You can also donate the old-fashioned way: make your check out to: Beyond Toxics and mail to: Beyond Toxics | P.O. Box 1106 | Eugene, OR 97440
(*For the first 50 people who sign up for membership online.)
Beyond Toxics is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and all contributions are fully tax-deductible. Please consider giving a gift of an OTA membership to a friend or family member!
Won’t you join us in imagining, and working for, a world Beyond Toxics?
Our promise:
Beyond Toxics will act responsibly and aggressively to protect the public and the environment from toxic poisoning.
Our mission:
Beyond Toxics works for all Oregonians to expose root causes of toxic pollution and helps communities find solutions that protect human and environmental health.
We are happy to work with Oregon non-profits, businesses or individuals to make presentations for community groups, schools and faith organizations within our program areas: air quality, environmental justice and pesticide reform.
“Beyond Toxics represents the finest culmination of hard-working individuals that produce the results we can all live by. Our industry, livelihoods and communities are dependent upon a healthy landscape, and our prospects would be very bleak indeed if we did not have the steadfast commitment of Beyond Toxics.”
- Shawn Donnille, Vice President, Mountain Rose Herbs
“…they [Beyond Toxics] serve as thought leaders in the regional conversation on toxics reform and have influenced and mobilized public opinion for change through rigorous grassroots organizing.”
- Pesticide Action Network North America
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Testimonials we received upon hearing news that the coal trains threat to Lane County is over:
“Stupendous!!!” – Bobbi Lindberg
“YEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!! This is AWESOME!!! Thanks so much for all the hard work you do.” ~ Joanne Gross
“Yay…!! Thank You for caring about this so much!” ~ Tim Greathouse
“Well done, one and all! I’m very proud of you.” ~ Victor Rozek
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On two different occasions in the last few years, Eugene Weekly has praised our work:
“OTA (now Beyond Toxics) works its rear end off to protect people, especially but not only kids and low-income and rural folks, from harmful pollutants. No cute kittens or other charismatic macrofauna can convey the depth of OTA’s commitment to cleaning up and keeping safe our land, waterways and air.”
“…we’ve been following this remarkable Eugene-based group since it formed in 2000. OTA (now Beyond Toxics) has successfully linked environmental research with advocacy and applied a social justice approach to environmental protection at the state and local levels….”
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“Just want you to know I saw the excellent film about the horrible subject of chemical trespass presented by Beyond Toxics. I shared it on FB and referenced Beyond Toxics’ website so people could find out more about campaigns for environmental protection. Thank you for your wonderful presence.”
~ Carter McKenzie
“That was a great op-ed you wrote for the Register Guard. Congratulations on
your fine work and your organization’s new name. Yours is one of the few
dynamic environmental organizations that actually gets things done.”
~ Victor Rozek
“I have been proudly supporting Beyond Toxics for about 5 years now. I had no idea how crucial their advocacy was for the health of our community until I got involved. Dont idle, Bee healthy, get involved. Our lives depend on it!”
~ Christine Cameron, business owner, Cameron and Company
“Thank you, Lisa, for caring so much about these issues that protect our health and the health of future generations. You’ve got to feel really good about your work.”
~ Candice Barr, CEO Lane County Medical Society
“So glad you’re in the world doing what you do and being who you be.”
With love and gratitude, Kassy Daggett
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In response to this R-G article about the legal ruling requiring the Port of Coos Bay to release records…
“…bravo to you and your organization for standing up for the people of Coos County and all citizens of Oregon. This milestone event would never have happened without you all, Sierra Club, and FLOW working tenaciously for every one’s constitutional right to know what the Coos Bay Port Authority planned to do to us and our environment. This tribesman knows full well what the dominant culture is capable of when seeking industrial growth and jobs at any cost for the benefit of a few. Let’s continue to protect the commons for the benefit of all citizens and future generations.”
~ David Petrie, Coos Waterkeeper (a member of Waterkeeper Alliance)
On the passage of the Eugene City Council resolution against coal trains…
“Wow, thank you for the good news, and for the amazing work you do organizing legislative action. You are my hero!”
~ Anna Alkin
and
“Great job on the no coal [vote]! We had faith you could do it! The bees thank you also!”
~ Doug Hornaday, Healthy Bees-Healthy Gardens
- Read about our current campaigns
- Read about other ways you can get involved
- Volunteer with us!
- See the video about Beyond Toxics
- Be sure to connect with us on Facebook!
Roundup, the herbicide that contains glyphosate, has gotten a lot of international press in the past week. And none of it is good news for us living beings who are exposed to Roundup in our food and in the environment. The use of a chemical known to bring about serious harm, especially by the government and industry, is a form of chemical trespass; it is toxic exposure against our will.