Grant Program Environment

To promote on-farm composting and soil building practices that create regenerative food and soil systems on Vermont farms.

To help states in the Northeast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest create Consumer Product Stewardship Councils and adopt “Extended Producer Responsibility Framework” policies that place the responsibility for disposable products with those that manufacture them instead of with local governments.

To reduce toxic chemicals by winning fundamental reform on chemicals policy in Connecticut, while contributing to national and international trends toward precaution and safer alternatives.

To build a multi-constituency coalition that generates support for broad chemical policy reform in Minnesota to protect public health from toxic chemicals in the environment.

To stop the introduction or additional planting of genetically modified (GM) wheat and alfalfa until environmental, economic and health questions about the release of these plants can be answered and potential problems addressed.

To reduce toxic chemicals by winning fundamental reform on chemicals policy in Connecticut, while contributing to national and international trends toward precaution and safer alternatives.

To organize a policy training for key Learning and Development Disabilities Initiative leaders that will increase collaboration between learning and developmental disability groups and advocates for state or federal chemical policy reform.

To ensure that Connecticut makes significant progress toward its legislative commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

To promote greenhouse gas reductions of 80 percent by 2050 in Kansas by recruiting community champions and broad public support for a decisive transformation in policy and practice from dependence on coal-fired electricity to energy efficiency and rapid deployment of…

To reduce toxic chemicals by winning fundamental reform on chemicals policy in Connecticut, while contributing to national and international trends toward precaution and safer alternatives.