NCAP: Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides

Over a BILLION pounds of pesticides are used nationally every year. It's a big problem that needs a big solution. Help us build healthier communities and inspire the use of alternatives to pesticides.

The Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides (NCAP) understands that both pests and pesticides are a problem. We seek solutions coming from a change in approach – a difference in mindset – rather than a change in synthetic chemistry or a new product with a silver bullet and a warning label. We help people become more pest-aware and to learn to deal with pests in ways that avoid the use of pesticides that harm our health, wildlife, soil, water, and the air we breathe. We demonstrate alternatives. We work with farmers, school groundskeeping staff and park managers to show their peers how they “do things differently.” Our work is focused in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.