To assess the public health, environmental and economic impacts of using toxic industrial wastes and municipal sewage sludge in agricultural fertilizer products and to begin to identify strategies to correct the problem.
To create a central coordinating team to steer state, national and international public interest advocacy to effect the virtual elimination of mercury pollution.
To support the public information and grassroots organizing campaign aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s most polluting, antiquated power plants, which contribute significantly to the region’s poor air quality due to ozone smog, soot, haze and mercury…
To promote energy conservation and green power purchasing within Episcopal parishes.
To support the public information and grassroots organizing campaign aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s most polluting, antiquated power plants, which contribute significantly to the region’s poor air quality due to ozone smog, soot, haze and mercury…
To begin developing value-added products for Vermont’s premium lamb industry with a test-marketing phase.
To oppose proposed development project that will contribute to sprawl, particuarly in connection with growth in Vermont’s ski industry; and to continue building a network of activists oriented to local watershed areas.
To hire staff to foster partnerships between Vermont chefs and farmers to maintain the sustainable agriculture base in that state.
To hold a Boston “town meeting” to increase public awareness about climate change, and the role that human actions play in its cause and in any solutions for abating it.
To strengthen the science, policy and activist connections between old, polluting power plants and toxic emissions, including dioxin and mercury; and to involve the medical and health care professions in the fight to reduce air pollution from power plants.