MPAC's projects since our founding include:

• Designing and maintaining Marblehead's Organic Lawn and Garden Demonstration Site: A Living Lawn...A Lawn for Living, recipient of a Massachusetts Governor's Environmental Award June 2000;
  
  
• Teaching an on-going series of seasonal "Saturday Seminars" on Simple Steps Towards Organic Lawn Care, for homeowners and other interested in pesticide-free lawn care;
  
  
• Organizing two public Informational Forums on Pesticides, co-sponsored with the League of Women Voters of Marblehead, televised for our local cable TV station;
  
  
• Fostering partnership projects with Town of Marblehead, Board of Health on "Pesticides as a Public Health/Community Health Education" issue, including:
  
  
• Writing an Organic Pest Management Policy (OPM) for the Town of Marblehead Public Lands, adopted as a Board of Health Policy in May 2001; and turned into a OPM Health Regulation in December 2005 by the Board of Health
  
  
• Providing educational outreach material throughout the town on pesticides and children's health (Spring Alert Flyer, Statement on Pesticides);
  
  
• Acting in an Advisory capacity to the Board of Health on safe mosquito management in Marblehead as it pertains to pesticides - as well as on other pesticide issues;
  
  
• Fostering a partnership with Marblehead Recreation, Parks & Forestry Department for the implementation of an Organic Turf Management Master Plan for all town land in compliance with the Board of Health OPM policy;
  
  
• Writing and distributing informational brochures on Pesticides and Your Health and Simple Steps Towards Organic Lawn Care;
  
  
• Designing an alternative lawn sign featuring our logo from the Living Lawn, for use on organic lawns;
  
  
• Modeling and sharing information in response to enquiries from communities throughout Massachusetts, and beyond, regarding our campaign. The following are some of the towns and communities that have contacted MPAC seeking information on organic lawn care and alternatives to pesticides. Many have begun their own community pesticide awareness groups;
  
  
  • Acton, Amesbury, Andover, Arlington, Athol, Bedford, Belmont, Beverly, Beverly Farms, Boston, Boxboro, Boxford, Byfield, Cambridge, Cape Cod, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Danvers, Dorchester, Framingham, Georgetown, Glouster, Hamilton-Wenham, Haverill, Hingham, Hopedale, Ipswich, Jamaica Plain, Lancaster, Lynn, Lynnfield, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Nahant, Nantucket, Needham, Newbury, Newburyport, Newton, Northboro, Reading/North Reading, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Sciatute, Sharon, Sherborn, Southboro, Stoneham, Stow, Sudbury, Swampscott, Upton, Wakefield, Watertown, Wayland, Wellesley, Weston, West Newbury, Winchester, Woodboro- as well as other communities in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Connecticut;
    
    
• Working in partnership with other state and citizen environmental groups working for the successful passage of the Children's and Families Protection Act in 2000- signed into law by the Governor on May 12, 2000;
  
  
• Organizing two business forums for local landscapers and public land management professionals on the growing market for organic, natural landscaping services and products (1999- Transitions in Turf Management...Choices and Challenges of an Organic Approach; and 1998- Natural Landscape Maintenance: The Pros and Cons);
  
  
• Offering educational outreach in Marblehead and other communities, providing speakers and information;
  
  
• Feature articles in The Boston Globe, The Marblehead Reporter, the Lynn Daily Item, Salem Evening News, and the Boston Parents' Paper;
  
  
• Winner of Toxics Action Center Environmental Award 2003