To promote policies in New Hampshire that maintain or increase state funds available for energy efficiency; help cities launch new efficiency financing programs recently approved by the legislature; and develop a model program that creates incentives for landlords to invest…
To discourage construction of new coal-fired power plants and retire existing plants by providing advocates with analytical tools that demonstrate coal plants are bad investments for shareholders, investors and ratepayers.
To promote precautionary federal chemicals policy by supporting policy models in key states and then bringing them to bear in discussion about comparable reforms at the federal level.
To support Vermont’s artisan cheesemakers through education and technical assistance that will produce cheeses of consistently high quality and reduced microbiological risks.
To use the findings of the Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report to engage senior citizens’ organizations and their memberships in promoting policies that will foster healthier living for all ages.
To support the 2010 Vermont Cheesemakers Festival.
To support research into functional dissection of the central cholinergic system in cognition by John Merck Scholar Adam Kepecs.
To support research on the influence of neurodevelopmental disorders on synaptic organization and circuit function.
To support research on the origins of mathematics in the developing brain by John Merck Scholar finalist Jessica Cantlon.
To support research on activity-dependent regulation of GABAergic synapses and neural circuit plasticity by John Merck Scholar Yingxi Lin.