To accelerate the Vermont health community’s transition to a more sustainable, community-based food system via local procurement and distribution channels; and to provide healthy, fresh foods for employees and patients; and to promote changes in system-wide health care practices so…
To support the Learning and Development Disabilities Initiative’s efforts to educate state and national learning and developmental disabilities organizations about the possible environmental links to those conditions, translate emerging science into informational materials, and cultivate opportunities for interested groups to…
To elevate the issue of global warming as a top-tier priority for national leadership at both the presidential and Congressional levels during and after the 2008 elections.
To raise awareness among parents, teachers, medical professionals and policymakers of the links between environmental factors and learning and developmental disabilities, and act to prevent exposure to toxic chemicals for women, infants and children.
To organize consumer opposition to Monsanto’s proposals that states prohibit dairy producers and distributors from advertising that they do not use milk with recombinant bovine growth hormone.
To research, produce, publish and plan for release of a new report called “In Harm’s Way II: Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging,” focused on adult neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Diseases, following the landmark report “In Harm’s Way: Toxic…
To reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other harmful pollutants emitted from the electricity sector by 2010 by preventing the construction of new coal-fired power plants and pressing for clean energy alternatives to meet projected energy demand.
To enable SAFER to coordinate and expedite model chemical reform campaigns in leading states, and thereby create a conducive climate for eventual federal policy reforms.
To win fundamental change in Massachusetts policy on toxic chemical regulation, as a model for other states and to build toward national reform.
To educate institutional investors on the financial risks and opportunities related to global warming and to mobilize them in their role as shareholders to pressure companies to mitigate those risks by reducing carbon emissions and supporting climate policies.