To secure adoption of groundbreaking policy reforms that protect human health and the environment from the impacts of toxic chemicals while serving as a model for other states and a driver for federal reforms.
To achieve comprehensive chemicals policy reform to improve reproductive health and fertility.
To teach at-risk Barre youth energy efficiency skills and applied academics; and provide relief to low-income households by reducing heating costs.
To conduct research and take action to build the business case, generate investor demand, and promote environmental disclosure in order to speed substitution of safer chemicals in consumer products and other sources of exposure to toxic chemicals affecting human health.
To maintain “certified organic” as a credible GE-free label; create a regulatory framework that recognizes the economic harm to farmers and rural communities from contamination by genetically engineered crops; and protect the right and capacity of farmers to grow non-GE…
To support new farmers and economically viable farm operations in the Rutland area.
To sustain and extend early college opportunities for students at six high schools in central/western Maine, particularly students who face barriers to college or whose college plans are uncertain.
To promote and defend the rights of indigenous people in the La Montaa and Costa Chica regions of the state of Guerrero, Mexico.
To protect human health from toxic chemical exposures where we live, work and play, in 2010 by: ensuring strong implementation of Maine’s precedent-setting safer chemicals policy; participating in a national coalition to comprehensively reform federal chemicals policy based on the…
To promote a resilient agriculture system based on sustainable practices rather than one focused entirely on short-term productivity by: achieving a federal ban on the outdoor production of pharmaceutical and industrial (pharma) crops, and strengthening the regulatory framework for biotechnology.