Grant Program Environment

To require New England’s electrici utilities to adopt energy efficiency as an alternative to building new power plants.

To foster development of new commercial crop species that will aid the effort to prevent tropical rainforest destruction and promote job growth in developing countries.

To support a matching fund for purchasing development rights to preserve Vermont farmland.

To support the Mettowee Valley Conservation Project.

To reorient New England’s electricity policy from high-cost, environmentally damaging generation facilities to low-cost and environmentally benign electrical efficiency programs.

To support four Ashoka environmental fellows.

To establish a southern Vermont office of VNRC.

To require New England’s electric utilities to adopt energy efficiency as an alternative to building new power plants.

To establish a legal advocate for environmental protection in Vermont.

To develop a technique to preserve threatened farmland in New England and other parts of the US.