In collaboration with Environment Northeast, to adopt and update minimum appliance efficiency standards in New England at the state and federal levels, specifically to adopt minimum efficiency standards in five New England states by the end of 2005; work with…
To strengthen policymaker support for policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reliance on fossil fuels; and to increase media coverage of sustainable energy technologies and practices.
To complete a project to exhume and return the remains of nine Nigerian human rights advocates who were murdered in 1996.
To hire a development director for Rural Vermont.
To continue to provide accompaniment, support and legal assistance to the Mixteco and Tlapaneco indigenous people of the Costa Chica region of Guerrero who are victims of human rights violations.
To conduct community organizing to achieve rejection of “Risk-Based End States,” the DOE’s new conceptual framework for weakened cleanup of pollution from the nuclear weapons complex; and to preserve funding and support for cleanup plans already in progress across the…
To increase access to emergency contraception by educating health professionals, reproductive health advocates, the public and the media about EC policies.
To help Vermont’s small farmstead producers comply with new and changing federal Food and Drug Administration regulations so they can continue to produce and sell value-added products to diversify and increase farm income.
To assist Vermont’s organic farmers in becoming more experienced, profitable, and sustainable within their communities by providing healthy, fresh local food to Vermonters who need food aid.
To maximize business potential of entrepreneurs through improved personal skills and knowledge; train Washington Hancock County Agency staff to integrate personal skill building exercises into the general Incubator Without Walls program; and disseminate Human Potential Initiative results to other economic…