Grant Program Environment

To complete the project budget to produce and distribute to hospitals and hospital workers across the country a 20-minute video entitled “Managing Waste with the Community in Mind.”

To support Land Link Vermont, a program at the Center for Sustainable Agriculture that connects new and relocating farmers with retiring farmers and non-farming landowners.

To support the Pollution Prevention Project.

To continue support for the Pesticide Use Reduction and Education Project with a focus on schools, state facilities and hospitals.

To strengthen the voices of citizens and raise the profile of the environment in policy debates across New England through public education, capacity building and training activities in the region.

To generate media awareness and coverage of genetically engineered food.

To support an educational forum for sheep producers in Vermont.

To conduct strategically designed public education and media campaigns that increase support for abating climate change.

To increase the number of family-owned forests that obtain certification for being sustainably harvested and managed, by educating land owners about the advantages of certification; facilitating access to certifying services; and demonstrating the financial advantages of participating in the market…

To guide state, national and international policy developments and coordinate grassroots advocacy to advance a national goal of virtually eliminating mercury exposure to humans and wildlife.