Vital Communities
To build a community-driven, local food system by fostering productive relationships between farmers, retail grocers, wholesalers, restaurants, institutions, and local consumers.
To build a community-driven, local food system by fostering productive relationships between farmers, retail grocers, wholesalers, restaurants, institutions, and local consumers.
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
To participate in the Alliance for a Toxic-Free Future, which works to to phase out the production, use, release, and disposal of persistent toxic chemicals in New York State, through policy reforms and market shifts to safer substitutes.
To provide emergency travel, living, accompaniment and other expenses for five Uzbek human rights advocates who have suffered torture or threats by the government.
To build a regional farmer-base campaign on GMO issues in the Northeast.
To educate the public about Vermont maple syrup and to provide marketing and other training and assistance to Vermont maple farmers
To develop a community market supporting local agriculture in downtown Bellows Falls.
To support the Health and Environment Funders Network and to support the network’s Catalysts for a Healthy Future Collaborative.
To retain Monica Buckhorn to assist with the launch of chemicals policy reform campaigns in Connecticut and New York.
To develop a communications plan to encourage the Northeast governors to finalize the agreement for a regional global warming policy to reduce power plant pollution.