IPM STAR

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IPM STAR

• Reducing Pest and Pesticide Risks in our
  Communities

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Goals

• Context
• Whats an IPM STAR?
• IPM STAR for Schools
• Pest Management Professionals
• Landscape Service Providers

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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 Nations Ecosystems, Heinz
  Center, 2002

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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

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We can do better!!!

• Who remembers rivers catching on fire in the
  1960s and 70s?
• Raptor recovery
• Lets work together to improve water quality and
  body burden
• Health and eco are growing consumer concerns.

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Credible communication

• Creates opportunities
• Build customer loyalty
• Create access to new markets
• Survive the next scare
• Create new allies
• Price premiums?

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Consumers want to buy GREEN

• ORGANIC
• Fastest growing segment of the food market
• gt40 of consumers have purchased organic in the
  last month

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Key Lessons

• Not everyone cares
• Cake quality, convenience, price
• Eco is the icing
• Make it meaningful

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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.or
  g/links.htm

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What the heck is an IPM STAR?

• Born from IPM Standards for Schools, an on-line
  compendium of gt250 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

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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

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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

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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 CERTIFIED SCHOOL
SYSTEM exceeding a Rigorous Standard for
Integrated Pest Management YOUR SCHOOLS
exemplary performance in reducing pest and
pesticide risks to health and the environment
has been verified by an independent,
third-party audit.
ATTEST Thomas A. Green, Ph.D.,
President IPM Institute of North America, Inc.
2004-2006
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Renewal

• Renewal audit
• Maintain state of the art
• Correct slippage
• Check on promised improvements

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Results!
18 school systems certified to date 1.5 million
students! Real IPM improvements New IPM
awareness among consumers, taxpayers
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Pest Management Professionals

• Modeled after schools program
• Must haves plus scored practices
• Audit, report, three-year renewal
• Two companies certified
• Six in progress

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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

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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

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Thank you!

• USDA IPM Program
• US EPA Pesticide Environmental Stewardship
  Program
• National Foundation for IPM Education
• IPM Institute members and supporters