Grant Program Environment

To enable Vermont Quality Meats to lease a refrigerated truck to transport freshly killed carcasses to New York and Boston restaurants.

To survey various at-risk sectors of the public in the six New England states to understand the level of awareness of state agencies’ public health advisories about the dangers of consuming excessive amounts of mercury-contaminated fish, and to use this…

To support the Vermont Forest Furniture Project, which seeks to design and promote finished goods made from abundant but less commercially popular wood species and grades, thereby increasing the economic viability of sustainable harvests and local wood-based enterprises.

To support the Union of Concerned Scientists participation in rulemaking proceedings and other available policy and regulatory forms for clean energy and renewables, with particular focus on Massachusetts, Connecticut and Maine.

To ban the application of contaminated sewage sludge or sludge products on Vermont soil.

To explore the production, use and exportation of genetically modified crops and their impact on US corn growers.

To produce a series of profiles of farmers in Bennington County to provide Vermont citizens with an appreciation for the roles farmers play in sustaining communities.

To provide legal support, advocacy and organizing assistance for Boston neighborhood groups that are seeking to reduce air pollution from transportation sources, with a special emphasis on diesel-fuel vehicles such as city buses and large trucks that have a disproportionate…

To establish a New England office for training and motivating college students in the region to express their concerns about the environment by becoming voters.

To protect the Upper St. John River in Maine.