Sebastopol Toxics Education Program (STEP)
The Next STEP Newsletter: Accolades
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The Next STEP newsletter provides empowering information about how to avoid everyday toxics and choose healthier alternatives. It's your friendly guide to less-toxic, earth-healthy living! Produced by citizen volunteers, this newsletter implements the Sebastopol Toxics Education Program (STEP), an innovative City program to reduce toxic use and exposure in Sebastopol, thus creating a healthier and safer town for everyone. This newsletter is sent bi-monthly to all City residents in their water bills. It's also available online; see Recent Issues and Online Topic Index. You can sign up to receive email alerts when new issues are posted. See our Email List Signup page. Read more about our project below and on our About STEP page. I hope you find this information interesting and useful! |
You can see our 2013 reader survey and a brief history of the project at www.healthyworld.org/GRAPHICS/STEP/stepvol13no3.pdf.
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Accolades for The Next STEP newsletter, Compiled July 2010 "I am writing to express my deep appreciation for Patricia Dines' outstanding and unique work in writing, editing, and providing the graphics for the widely-successful STEP newsletter. The community response has been overwhelmingly positive, and I believe the use of toxics in Sebastopol has declined significantly as a result of it. "[In this and other projects], Patricia has
provided valuable contributions of her talent to
Sebastopol and Sonoma County." "This Certificate is in appreciation of your
dedication and service in your efforts to help
establish The Sebastopol Toxics Education Program
(STEP) and Newsletter, which is an innovative and
one-of-a-kind City-wide toxics reduction program
in Sebastopol.... We greatly appreciate your
commitment and dedication to the betterment of our
community." "Thank you for the article on accidentally
poisoning our pets and wildlife. This happened to
my cat, who ate some of our plant chemicals. He
survived, but lesson learned -- no
chemicals!" "Patricia - You are doing a wonderful job with
the [STEP] newsletter. I can't even begin to tell
you how many things I have learned and use in my
daily life. I take your newsletters to work and
hang them up in the workroom to share with people.
Keep up your hard work. Sebastopol is a better
place to live thanks to people like you. Best
wishes for a beautiful New Year." "Thank you so much for The Next STEP newsletter.
It is always useful and enlightening. It reminds
me of why I wanted to live here, all the forward
looking folks like you." "When I first moved here and got [TNS] in my
water bill I thought, 'The City's letting us know
about stuff like this? How cool. I moved to the
right place.' " "I live most of the principles in The Next STEP
but I love the reminders and am proud to live in a
city where these concerns are at the forefront of
our minds. Thank you for your good work." "I enjoy reading The Next STEP very much. Thank
You! The newsletter gives me a proud and SAFE
feeling of living in a community who cares about
this issue. Good work!" "Thank you heartily [for] your excellent two-page
newsletter! I've learned so much from it
that I would not have thought to research by
myself. It's also a striking example of good
citizenship at work!" "The Next STEP is wonderful! Both graphics and
text are very well done, and the message, of
course, is much needed. Wouldn't it be marvelous
to get every city in the U.S. to include it with
one of their bills? You have really accomplished
something.... Carry on your good work!" "I've worked with Patricia very closely in
creating The Next STEP newsletter since 2006. She
is an excellent researcher, a dedicated worker,
and an exceptional writer. She can distill a
tremendous amount of information down to the core
ideas, and make the final result look easy." Typical comments in our annual reader survey "I love The Next STEP newsletter! It's given me so many ideas and is so friendly not preachy." "After reading [your first newsletter], I decided to dispose of my worst garden pesticides and buy safe ones. Thank you for tactfully raising my awareness." "My thanks to all involved in the production of this informative and innovative newsletter -- and to the City of Sebastopol for distributing it with our local billing. What a great place Sebastopol is to live!" "Honestly, I cannot think of a more wonderful and welcome newsletter for folks opening their utility bill to enjoy! Thank you so much for your words of wisdom and compassion. The graphics are excellent as well!" "Thanks for your informative newsletter. I appreciate what you offer our community in the way of nontoxic cleansers, herbal remedies, etc. I used your advice for tea tree oil and water to clean mold, applied it to my shower and it worked very well... so much better than those smelly, toxic cleansers! I look forward to reading the new issue." "What a wonderful issue! They all are and getting better. Thank you so much for writing and distributing this newsletter." "I read your newsletter each time. It has lots of useful information that I didn't know, and puts the thinking in the right direction." "TNS is a great educational tool -- I learn something with each edition." "Thank you for your service to the community." "Please keep publishing the newsletter -- it's great!" "I save all the newsletters." "Keep up the good work." "Thank you! I think The Next STEP is Great. Makes me happy to be in Sebastopol." "A great service to the community." "Keep up the good work!" "[The articles] are not only practically helpful but also very inspiring." "I think your newsletter is excellent and very important. Thank you all!" "Thank you, this is fabulous info to have on hand." "TNS is a constant reminder to do the right thing!" "You have great ideas and present them well." "Very good material! Thank you!" "Keep up the good work. I look forward to your newsletter." "Thank you for educating us." "Thanks for your hard work!" "Keep it up -- great stuff" "I love it all!!" "I greatly appreciate the info." "Your newsletter is very informative." "You are doing a good job." "A great service to the City of Sebastopol." "Thank you." "The STEP newsletter is great!" "TNS has helped my awareness." "I very much appreciate your efforts." "You're doing great!" "Keep up the good work!" "Keep it coming!" "Wow ... beautiful newsletter!" "Many thanks for all the good valuable work you do!" "Great job! I really appreciate the efforts put into the newsletter." "I love [TNS]! Thank you so much!" "Thank you for making this info available on a large scale." "Keep up the good work!!!" "[TNS is] Informative and helpful. Thanks!" "[TNS is] awesome!"... "I love it!"... "Keep it coming!" "Great Articles! Thank you so much!" "Thanks for this wonderful newsletter." "I like the variety of topics, many of which are new to me." "Thank you for the great newsletter." Representative added feedback since 2010 "We stopped using weed killers on our grass years
ago, thanks to TNS!" "Thank you for educating the community. I often pass along your web address and share the paper version too." "I’m always glad to get your newsletter; I always
learn something. The latest issue about safe
handling of art supplies is especially useful for
me. I appreciate that here, as always, your advice
is practical. Thank you very much." ~ Carol
Goodwin Blick "Just wanted to say thank you for all your
positive information. My husband and I are trying
for our second child and I really appreciated the
article regarding autism cases being higher when
exposed to flea shampoos for animals. This was a
great eye opener for me and I plan on using only
non-toxic cleaners pre-pregnancy and forever
afterwards. This type of information really does
help all of us -- so again, thank you....I am so
happy to be a part of such a caring community." "I read your article on how to deal with ants
more naturally, and it was so helpful! |
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