Grant Program Environment

To strengthen and build policies for eliminating and cleaning up persistent toxic chemicals in the State of Washington.

To establish the Vermont Artisan Cheese School, Research and Technical Center, a comprehensive cheese school and scientific laboratory to help existing Vermont cheesemakers maintain and improve their current skills and national reputations for excellence in cheese production; aid sheep, goat…

As part of the Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine, to promote reforms that phase out the unnecessary use of the entire class of persistent, bioaccumulative toxic chemicals.

To provide general support to a leading Vermont environmental organization as it revitalizes its internal structure and seeks to develop a leadership role in connecting the work of environmental, health-affected and other advocacy groups throughout the state.

To recordand distribute nationally the educational forum Autism and the Environment: Exploring a Connection.

To reduce the acreage of genetically engineered corn planted in the United States by informing farmers of the problems associated with planting these crops, particularly the market resistance to them.

To galvanize, support and coordinate strategic grassroots organizing related to agricultural biotechnology; assume operation of Greenpeace’s True Food Network and supermarket campaign; and participate in the ongoing campaign seeking to prevent commercialization of genetically engineered wheat.

To assist Maine citizens in holding state and federal regulatory agencies and polluters accountable for their 33-year failure to protect the Penobscot River from severe mercury contamination and other pollutants.

To foster decisions, policies, and practices that support smart growth principles in Vermont-advancing a vision of compact settlements separated by rural countryside and working landscapes with equitable access to all Vermonters.

To ensure appropriate federal regulation of all genetically engineered crops and organisms, which would include adequate environmental and human health safety testing prior to commercial uses and mandatory labeling of consumer products with genetically engineered contents.