To promote safer chemicals through the widespread adoption of the Green Screen for Safer Chemicals and the development of innovative chemicals policies for governments and businesses, and to increase organizational capacity to advance this work.
To support legal work seeking to prohibit the use of food crops in biopharmaceutical production, protect the public’s right to know about the locations of potentially harmful biopharm test plots, and phase out open air testing of biopharm crops.
To create linkages and synergy among the many environmental health policy and market campaigns occurring at state, regional, national and international levels with a special emphasis on state activities related to brominated flame retardants; to facilitate interactions between foundations and…
To enable the Sustainable Biomaterials Collaborative to spur the introduction and use of biomaterials that are sustainable throughout their life cycle by creating sustainability guidelines, building markets and promoting policy initiatives.
To serve as a local voice in favor of strong energy and climate policies in Massachusetts.
To provide a general support grant in honor of Judith M. Buechner’s long service as a John Merck Fund trustee.
To mobilize the faith community to lend its powerful moral and public voice to the debate around chemical policy reform in five key states–Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington–and eventually at the federal level.
To host a national conference on farm viability and success for state program directors and coordinators from service provider organizations.
To retain a conflict resolution specialist to facilitate a series of constructive conversations among Vermont farmers who differ on genetic engineering issues.
To support farmers and agricultural enterprises in rural Vermont.