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IPM STAR™

Reducing Pest and Pesticide Risks in our

Communities


Goals

Context

What’s an IPM STAR?

IPM STAR for Schools

Pest Management Professionals

Landscape Service Providers


We have work to do!

Excess PHOSPHORUS in 75% of stream sites tested, excess NITRATES in 20% of wells

75% of streams w/5 or more detectable PESTICIDES

- The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems, Heinz Center, 2002


Work to do continued Average of 91 chemical

contaminants in our bodies!

Of 167 chemicals found, 76 cause cancer, 94 are toxic to nervous systems and 79 cause birth defects or abnormal development

- Body Burden, Environmental Working Group, Mt. Sinai School of Community Medicine, Commonweal, 2003


We can do better!!!

Who remembers rivers catching on fire in the 1960’s and 70’s?

Raptor recovery

Let’s work together to improve water quality and body burden

Health and eco are growing consumer concerns.


Credible communication

Creates opportunities:

Build customer loyalty

Create access to new markets

Survive the next scare

Create new allies

Price premiums?


Consumers want to buy GREEN

ORGANIC

Fastest growing segment of the food market

>40% of consumers have purchased organic in the last month


Key Lessons

Not everyone cares

Cake: quality, convenience, price

Eco is the “icing”

Make it meaningful


Eco-certification

• AG: CORE Values Northeast, Rainforest Alliance, Hood River IFP, Cornell University, Wegmans Food Markets, Low-Input Viticulture, CERTIMEX, Cornell, Rutgers, Univ. of Hawaii, World Wildlife Fund Canada, Canada apple IFP

• NEPMA IPM Registry, UMass Protocols for an IPM System on Golf Courses, IPM Institute IPM STAR

• Find more than 16 IPM links at www.ipminstitute.org/links.htm


What the heck is an IPM STAR? Born from IPM Standards

for Schools, an on-line compendium of >250 IPM practices for schools, developed with more than 40 IPM professionals nationwide

E.g., policy, training, exclusion, sanitation, pesticides as last resort, choose least-toxic options


IPM STAR CERTIFIED On-site audit by an lPM

professional

Verify IPM practice: Minimum requirements, scored practices, least-toxic pesticides

Detailed recommendations for improvement

Three year renewal cycle


Least toxic? No cholinesterase inhibitors

No carcinogens

No developmental, reproductive toxins

No danger, warning labels

Unless proven need, i.e., effective, lesser risk option is not available

2004-2006

ATTEST:Thomas A. Green, Ph.D., PresidentIPM Institute of North America, Inc.

The IPM Institute of North America, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program,certifies that the

YOUR SCHOOL HERE is an

IPM STAR CERTIFIEDSCHOOL SYSTEM

exceeding a

Rigorous Standard for

Integrated Pest Management YOUR SCHOOL’S

exemplary performance in reducing pest and pesticide risks

to health and the environment has been verified by an

independent, third-party audit.


Renewal Renewal audit

Maintain state of the art

Correct slippage

Check on promised improvements


Results!18 school systems certified

to date – 1.5 million students!

Real IPM improvements

New IPM awareness among consumers, taxpayers


Pest Management Professionals

Modeled after schools program

Must haves plus scored practices

Audit, report, three-year renewal

Two companies certified

Six in progress


On-site Audit Random account record

review, inspect inventory

Tie pesticide applications to a verified problem

Inspection, monitoring, sanitation, exclusion, communication are primary strategies

Legal: licenses, certifications

Customer feedback file


Marketplace Working with 25

environmental/health advocacy groups

Looking for a credible way to direct callers to IPM service providers and products

Landscape service providers in 2006


Thank you!

USDA IPM Program

US EPA Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program

National Foundation for IPM Education

IPM Institute members and supporters

Documents

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