To support the Lowell Center’s role as technical and policy advisor to the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, which will work to achieve fundamental reform in state-level decisionmaking about chemicals use that stresses prevention of harm to public health and…
To support the project on Advancing Climate Change Action in the Northeast, which will provide policymakers in Massachusetts with the technical assistance, strategic advice, collaborative opportunities, and encouragement to implement successful state- and region-wide programs for reducing greenhouse gas emission.
To launch the Agricultural Biotechnology Media and Information Center, which will design and implement a media and rapid response strategy for the genetically engineered food and agriculture advocacy community.
To provide general support.
To support the organization’s 2003 annual meeting, to be held in Vermont. Slow Food USA works to preserve and celebrate local agriculture.
To arrange a New Hampshire state press conference about acid rain in conjunction with March town meetings.
To persuade targeted companies to commit, remove, reduce, or label genetically engineered foods in their product lines pending the results of long-term safety testing.
To improve corporate board and institutional investor policies on climate change in New England over the next three years.
To oppose Bush Administration proposals to weaken environmental protection and public health standards.
To raise awareness about the potential health risks of several groups of chemicals classified as persistent, bioaccumulative toxins (PBTs) by testing for their presence in humans and in fish, analyzing existing clinical databases for chemical body burdens, launching a new…