To develop the protocol for a detailed study on the collection, recording, and analysis of farm financial data to examine the profitability of organic dairy farms and to assess the cost of transitioning from conventional to organic milk production.
To protect the Snake River Aquifer and the people who depend on it from further nuclear contamination.
To analyze the effects on foreign trade and investment flows that the European Union’s new chemicals policy, known as REACH, will have for US markets both nationally and in key states; and to analyze and defend the economics of precautionary…
To maintain and advance existing smart growth gains in Vermont by stopping big-box commercial developments from being built outside community centers; and to educate the public about the economic, environmental and community impacts of big-box development on the scale Wal-Mart…
To convince targeted companies to commit to removing, reducing, or labeling genetically engineered foods in their product lines pending the results of long-term safety testing. This effort will be conducted through shareholder resolutions, dialogues with companies, and distribution of research…
To provide a general support grant.
To improve corporate board and institutional investor policies on climate change in New England.
To build public awareness about the ubiquitous nature of hazardous chemicals commonly used in consumer products by analyzing household dust samples collected in states where chemicals policy reform or phaseout campaigns are already active. The chemicals found in the household…
To achieve fundamental reform in state-level decisionmaking about chemicals use that stresses prevention of harm to public health and the environment. In the next few years, the alliance seeks to establish policy reforms in Massachusetts that can be used as…
To serve as an incubator for campaigns and strategies that implement chemical phaseouts from key market sectors, weaken the role of the chemical industry in devising regulations, and develop body burden testing and other environmental monitoring as key tools for…