Rhode Island Food Policy Council
To grow new local food supply chains for institutions in Rhode Island and track and communicate about progress toward key metrics outlined in the Rhode Island Food Strategy.
To grow new local food supply chains for institutions in Rhode Island and track and communicate about progress toward key metrics outlined in the Rhode Island Food Strategy.
To implement key projects related to Food Solutions New England’s three core strategies, build network leadership, and further racial equity in New England’s food system.
To develop effective tools, resources, and policy recommendations to open institutional markets to regional farmers and food producers, particularly within higher education.
To successfully implement and utilize 2018 Farm Bill policy wins in the field, and to create an empowered cohort of Northeast sustainable farm and food stakeholders able to influence upcoming policy debates.
To move the global market toward safer products by ensuring that the Marketplace platform becomes the premier meeting space for buyers and sellers of safer chemicals.
To support Project TENDR, which joins scientific evidence with advocacy to inform and empower change makers to create policies ensuring no child is exposed to chemicals contributing to neurodevelopmental disorders.
To conduct bottom-up organizing for new environmental health policy outcomes that protect communities impacted by the fossil fuel and chemical industries and reduce environmental health and justice burdens and inequities.
To leverage product testing results to eliminate toxic chemicals from consumer goods, including food and food packaging, cookware, apparel, children’s products, and building products.
To phase out dangerous chemicals in food contact materials, and to advance state policies to eliminate toxic chemicals in food packaging as a step toward federal reform.
To reduce or eliminate human and environmental exposure to toxic chemicals by fighting to ensure that science-based, health-protective policies for all chemicals are put in place.