To ensure that emerging green building standards incorporate health-based criteria that recommend and/or reward the elimination of building materials responsible for bioaccumulative toxic releases to the environment, such as mercury and dioxin; and to encourage the health care, religious and…
To cultivate large businesses as supporters and advocates for chemicals policy reform, commonly known as REACH, in the European Union, which is poised to adopt the world’s most progressive policy to reduce the use of toxic chemicals.
To conduct a six- to eight-month scoping process intended to lead to the development of a resource to assist the religious and spiritual community in engaging in environmental health issues and campaigns.
To conduct and educational and coalition building campaign to phase out the use of all brominated flame retardants in consumer products.
As part of this Massachusetts coalition, to achieve fundamental reform in state-level policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment.
To broaden and deepen participation in environmental health activism by interpreting the rapidly emerging scientific understanding of the links between environmental exposures and human health for elite and general audiences, promoting media coverage of these new developments, facilitating exchange among…
As part of this Massachusetts coalition, to achieve fundamental reform in state-level policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment.
To make the entire farm program more financially and organizationally manageable for the Intervale Foundation by defining when a farmer needs to leave the program so that they can be rotated at the rate of three per year, while retaining…
To continue developing the grassroots constituency for climate protection in Massachusetts, primarily through the Cities for Climate protection campaign; and to use the participation of local leaders to press for stronger climate protection policies at the state and regional levels.
As part of this Massachusetts coalition, to achieve fundamental reform in state-level policymaking and regulation on chemical use-stressing prevention of harm to public health and the environment.