Beyond Toxics provides leadership for a clean and just Oregon.
We partner with frontline communities and support their leadership to build a statewide environmental justice movement.
GOAL 1:
Environmental Justice and Vulnerable Communities
Build a strong statewide environmental justice movement.
Organize at the grassroots level to support leadership in low-income, rural communities and communities of color to build collective power.
Partner and support Latinx, farm worker advocates and black communities fighting to protect themselves from chemical trespass and proactively resisting corporate dominance.
Build collective power in frontline communities.
Engage communities around the intersectionality between environment, climate and racial justice.
Be an active, supportive and visionary member of the Oregon Just Transition Alliance.
Using the lens of climate justice, overhaul the Oregon Forest Practices Act to eliminate industrial practices of aerially sprayed pesticides, clear cutting, and short rotations on tree plantations.
Fight for diverse forest ecosystems and organic farming practices that protect public health and drinking water in rural Oregon, capture carbon, benefit rural Oregonians, and protect farm and forest workers.
Support communities to end pesticide poisoning in southern Oregon, working through our Rogue Valley office, board members and staff.
Save Oregon’s Pollinators – Protect Oregon’s Soils and Waters
Eliminate neonicotinoid pesticides in policy, law and practice to ensure the survival of endangered pollinators.
Advocate for food sovereignty and access to healthy soils and culturally appropriate foods for impacted communities.
Ensure just access to a secure local food web for all.
Expand our Non Toxic Oregon initiative to help Oregon’s cities transition from synthetic pesticides and fertilizers to safe and cost-effective alternatives for people, pollinators, pets, and the planet.
Eliminate classes of chemicals known to bio-accumulate and persist in soil and water.
