Grant Program Environment

To expand public support for wildland conservation and forest practices reform in the Northern Forest by counteracting the anti-environmental backlash that the influential Sportsmen’s Alliance of Maine is leading.

To mount public information and grassroots organizing campaigns aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s fifteen most polluting, antiquated power plants, which contribute to the region’s poor air quality due to ozone smog, soot, haze and mercury contamination.

To conduct investigative journalism that leads to major media coverage of environmental issues, with a special emphasis on increasing public knowledge about exposures to toxic chemicals.

To foster and support citizen involvement in maintaining the ecological integrity of the Northern Forest, with a special emphasis on halting the use of herbicides in forestry, promoting sustainable management practices, and building public support for wildlands protection.

To mount public information and grassroots organizing campaigns aimed at cleaning up or closing down New England’s fifteen most polluting, antiquated power plants.

To support a workshop on “Defining the New Vermont Economy.”

To enable scientists involved in the Shifting Mosaic experiment in forest management to interact with a diverse group of stakeholders, and with policymakers and journalists seeking information about the project.

To support participation in the Consumers for Affordable, Clean Electricity Coalition.

To strengthen the participation of grassroots environmentalists and consumer advocates in the utility deregulation proceedings now underway in Massachusetts.

To encourage municipalities in Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England to form purchasing blocks that will enable them to buy “clean” power at favorable rates when the electricity industry becomes deregulated.