Did you hear about the fact that three Canadian provinces have banned cosmetic pesticides, and even Home Depot went along with it by taking such chemicals off their shelves? It started with one lone voice in 1984. Dr. June Irwin, a dermatologist, noticed a connection between her patients’ health conditions and their exposure to chemical pesticides and herbicides. With relentless persistence she brought her concerns to town meetings to warn her fellow citizens that the chemicals they were putting on their lawns posed severe health risks and had unknown side effects on the environment.

Watch the documentary movie trailer about this story. The movie is called A Chemical Reaction.