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 improve Native American women’s access to abortion and pregnancy prevention services.
To decrease the use and disposal of toxic chemicals by increasing the capacity and willingness of public and private sector leaders to employ the precautionary principle in setting environmental policies and practices within the City of Portland and Multnomah County.
To expand the public interest campaign for strong federal rules requiring reduced emissions, including mercury, from power plants by continuing to raise awareness of air pollution as a health issue.
To train and support family physicians in medical abortion and improved contraception services.
To promote responsible solutions to the long-term public health threats from decades of waste from nuclear weapons production.
To help low-income, Latino business owners market goods and services to new customers in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
To reorganize the Hispanic STRIVE program.
To promote diversified and value-added enterprises on conserved farms, and to assist new farmers in becoming owner-operators of conserved farms.
To maintain and advance existing smart growth gains in Vermont by stopping “big box” commercial developments from being built outside community centers, and to educate the public about the economic, environmental, and community impacts of development on the scale Wal-Mart…