Grant Program Environment

To provide legal expertise to the Sierra Leone delegation at the meetings of the World Trade Organization’s Committee on Trade and Environment.

To increase the involvement of the medical community in increasing public awareness of the importance of air quality as a public health issue.

To increase community involvement in local conservation projects and to assist communities in developing strategies for sustainable economic diversification and job creation.

To establish Solutions, a new organization that will foster collaboration between environmental organizations and corporations to achieve more effective, cost-efficient solutions to environmental problems.

To raise public awareness of the national debate on our health, safety and environmental protections.

To collaborate with the Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development in promoting energy efficiency and demand-side management programs in the United Kingdom and other member countries of the European Union.

To start the sustainable forestry project in Vermont and the Adirondacks.

To test the newly developed “Shifting Mosaic” model of forest management on selected Maine forest land.

To increase involvement of NRCM’s members in environmental debates, and to build media coverage and public awareness of environmental issues in Maine.

To support the Citizens for Sensible Safeguards coalition, which provides public educational materials and briefings about federal government actions that could have an effect on environmental, public health and consumer safety standards and protections.