2001 | 2000
2002 Profits for the Planet Recipients
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Merrimack Valley
YMCA- Linking Values, Families and Communities Campaign
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NativeEnergy |
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To support the construction of new wind
farms that reduce the
consumption of fossil fuels to make electricity. NativeEnergy helped
to build the first Native American large-scale wind turbine, which
offsets carbon dioxide emissions from energy use and creates economic
benefits for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. NativeEnergy's WindBuilderssm
program enables both individuals and businesses to compensate for
their contributions to global warming with clean, renewable electricity. www.nativeenergy.com
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St. Albans Co-op
Creamery |
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To support local dairy farmers facing
a crisis due to the record low federally set milk prices (similar
to what was paid in the late 70's). Farmers are fighting to stay
alive but many cannot continue. An Emergency Fund has been set up
and is administered by St. Albans to help members pay for farm labor;
for manure spreading in fall past due; for family needs; for delinquent
taxes; and for past due grain for cows. This infusion of cash will
continue to assist more farmers. http://www.stalbanscooperative.com
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MALT - Marin Agricultural
Land Trust |
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To support the (MALT) in honor of the
work of Ellen Straus - Farmland Protection Pioneer and Organic Dairy
Farmer. One of the main tenets of MALT is that agricultural land
and the future of agriculture in Marin County are best protected
by continued operation of farms by the families that know this business
and have been farming for generations. The day-to-day and year-to-year
management of farm and ranch operations will always be carried out
by the ranchers and farmers themselves.
Their goal is to be partners in stewardship with landowners by
providing an option that can help farming families keep their land
farmland forever. MALT has acquired development easements on 47
ranches and dairies covering over 32,000 acres -- about a quarter
of privately owned farmland in the county. Due to their vision
and success, MALT quickly became a model for scores of similar
land trusts formed since across the country. http://www.malt.org/
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Florida Certified
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To support FOG, a non-profit grassroots
organization housed in Gainesville, FL. They connect consumers with
organic farmers and disseminate information regarding organic and
sustainable farming. They operate an organic certification program
and parent a community food security program, the Neighborhood Nutrition
Network, NNN. Participants of NNN include farmers, neighborhood residents,
students, parents, educators and local businesses. They are active
in the Public Schools in the whole county. http://www.foginfo.org
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Antioch New England
Wild Treasures' Emerson School's Organic Lunch Program Initiative: |
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To support Emerson School's ongoing efforts
to making their school go organic. Emerson School in Fitzwilliam,
NH just received its second Governor's Sustainability Award for their
exceptional work in meeting all of the goals and expectations of
Wild Treasures. They are the only school in New Hampshire to date
that has earned this recognition. http://wildtreasures.schoolsgogreen.org
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To support the rehabilitation of the
waste water treatment and disposal systems at the Merrimack Valley
YMCA's two residential camps on Bear Island on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Camp Lawrence, its residential boys summer camp, opened on 70-acres
in 1921. In 1962, Camp Nokomis, a residential girls camp opened on
40-acres on a separate section of the 374-acre island. Last year,
nearly 1,000 boys and girls attended one of the camp's summer sessions.
A few years later, the Merrimack Valley YMCA opened a coed day camp,
Camp Otter, in Salem, NH. Only minutes away from downtown Lawrence,
MA, Camp Otter is a world apart from the challenges faced by inner
city youth and their families. Last year, the Merrimack Valley YMCA
provided over $650,000 in financial assistance to families and children
in need of its value-based programs and services. http://www.mvymca.org
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Conservation Law
Foundation (CLF), New Hampshire Advocacy Center |
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To support CLF-NH's work to promote smart
growth and a balanced transportation system. CLF works to solve environmental
problems that face New England's people, natural resources, and communities.
CLF has consistently made a positive difference throughout the region,
in cases both large and small. Working with towns, communities, and
other environmental organizations and activist groups, they have
supplied legal expertise that, time and again, has preserved and
improved the environment. http://www.clf.org/aboutclf/newhampshire.htm
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Greenbiz.com: |
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To support a Web site/newsletter about green business.
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Rural Vermont's
Rural Education Action Project: |
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To educate farmers and consumers
on keeping family farms productive and sustainable.
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Agriculture in
the New Hampshire Classroom: |
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To support a non-profit organization with the mission
of increasing knowledge about food and fiber production among elementary
school children in the state. Lessons about the production of the
many food commodities grown in New Hampshire are woven into existing
science curriculum. NHAITC is affiliated nationally with the USDA.
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Beyond Pesticides/NCAMP: |
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To support efforts to provide the
public with useful information on pesticides and alternatives to
their use. With this information, people can and do protect themselves
and the environment from the potential adverse public health and
environmental effects associated with the use and misuse of pesticides. www.beyondpesticides.org
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Sustainable Energy
Institute: |
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To support the Sustainable
Energy Institute’s Sustainable Energy Top Ten project and
enable SEI to reach out to key opinion leaders on sustainable energy
issues and produce a concise volume that aims to convey the views
of these leaders to the general public and to policymakers. www.s-e-i.org
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The Northeast
Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT): |
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To support the education of consumers,
gardeners, and diversified farmers, thereby strengthening organic
agriculture in Vermont. www.nofavt.org
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The Northeast
Organic Farming Association: |
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to support educational conferences,
workshops, farm tours and printed materials that educate farmers,
gardeners, consumers and land care professionals in Connecticut,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island
and Vermont. www.nofa.org
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Chef's Collaborative: |
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To support a network of more than
1000 chefs, restaurateurs and other culinary professionals who
promote sustainable cuisine by teaching consumers, supporting local
farmers, educating each other & inspiring their customers to
choose clean, healthy foods. http://chefnet.com/cc2000
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Chicago Earth
Month: |
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To support Chicago Earth Day festival
and a month of environmental events that inspire children to protect
our environment. www.chicagoearthmonth.com
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W.A.S.T.E. (Women
Assessing State of The Environment) Summit: |
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To support a Summit that
brought together women from across the country to build a common
agenda, share strategies, and forge a strong constituency for a
new U.S. domestic and global environmental policy agenda. The Summit
produced a US women’s environmental action plan including
a status report on US progress since the United Nations Earth Summit
in 1992 and a set of policy recommendations was also be created. www.wastesummit.org/home.html |
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2001 Profits for the Planet Recipients
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The Fund for the World
Trade Center Greenmarket Farmers: www.nyfarmersmarket.com |
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To provide assistance to those New York City Farmers
in need due to the September 11th terrorist attacks. On September
11th, approximately 25 market farmers had their produce displays set
up at the World Trade Center Greenmarket at Church and Liberty Streets.
The NYC market farmers come in from Long Island and upstate NY, NJ,
and PA. The market had opened as usual at 8:00 am EST. It has been
reported that farmers and their helpers made it out alive, but most
of them lost all of their trucks, displays, produce, cash and personal
belongings. Insurance coverage for these losses is very limited at
best.
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Children's
Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC): |
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To support CHEC's mission of informing parents
about the preventable childhood health and developmental problems
caused by exposure to toxic substances found in homes, schools and
communities, and to encourage the public to protect children from
these toxic risks. www.checnet.org
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Sustainability
Institute: |
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To support the programs of
this "think-do tank" committed to sustainable resource
use, sustainable economics, and sustainable communities, founded
by the late Donella Meadows and dedicated to continued her work.
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Granite State
Dairy Promotion: |
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To support the New Hampshire Breed Show and
4-H State Show that reaches dairy farmers and their families from
all over the state and brings together some of New Hampshire's top
dairy cattle.
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Hopkinton Boy
Scout Troop 77: |
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To build a Zip Line, a system
for simulating bird flight, for the New Hampshire Audubon Society.
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Organic Trade
Association: |
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To support the OTA's Congressional
Education Day in Washington, DC on October 11th to address issues
with key legislators such as fair appropriation for organic production,
the release of organic producers from existing federal marketing
orders, and the importance of labeling products containing genetically
modified organisms.
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Manchester's Farmers
Market: |
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To support a weekly farmers
market.
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Natick Community
Organic Farm: |
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To support farm education
to people of all ages through a working, community-owned organic
farm.
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Nesenkeag Cooperative
Farm: |
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To support their efforts to
establish sustainable organic agriculture in New Hampshire through
a wide range of educational lectures, and hands-on agriculture education
projects involving local schools and community service organizations.
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New York-New Jersey
Trail Conference: |
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To support the efforts of more than 85
hiking and environmental organizations and 10,000 individuals dedicated
to building and maintaining marked hiking trails and protecting related
open space in the bi-state region. www.nynjtc.org.
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Northeast Organic
Farming Association: |
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To support the annual summer conference
for the seven State Chapters and to support the quarterly newspaper,
The Natural Farmer, which features organic farming techniques, certification
issues, environmental developments as they impact farmers and growers,
organic market conditions and other topics of interest to the Northeast
organic community. www.nofa.org
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Save Our World
VT: |
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To support the Our World
Discovery Program in Rochester, Randolph, and Brookfield, VT schools,
that reconnects students with the natural world.
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Squam Lakes Association: |
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To support water
quality monitoring, trail work and legislative advocacy on behalf
of the Squam Lakes. www.squamlakes.org |
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2000 Profits for the Planet
Recipients
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Farmer Grants
To support on-farm projects to improve environmental practices
and the long-term viability of farms in New England. |
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Phillip and Suzanne Parent of Enosburg
Falls, VT were awarded a grant for their fencing project. |
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Note: The following Farmer Grants
were awarded May 1, 2000, but have not been completed. Projects
are funded upon completion. |
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Jeff and Gail Smith of Irasbrug, VT
were awarded a grant toward their tile drainage project. |
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David Burnor of Fairfield, VT was
awarded a grant toward their manure pit project. |
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Rich Lange of Platteville, WI was
awarded a grant toward his retail meat operation. |
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Raymond and Mary Howrigan of Fairfield,
VT were awarded a grant toward the cementing of their barnyard.
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Patrick and Amy Cochran of Richford,
VT were awarded a grant toward their solar barn project.
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Northeast Organic Farming Association,
Vermont |
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To support the 2000 Summer Conference
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To support the 4 quarterly issues
of the Natural Farmer
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Chef’s Collaborative |
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To support a network of 1,500 chefs
and food growers in the United States who promote sustainable cuisine
by teaching children, supporting local growers, educating each other,
and inspiring their customers to choose clean, healthy foods. www.chefnet.com/cc2000
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Environmental Minute |
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To support the creation of the EcoAdventure
tapes; a special collection of audio cassette recordings designed
to teach kids about Planet Earth, and what they can do to be Planet
Protectors.
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Natick Community Organic Farm |
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To provide continued support as a
community partner, of the Farm and its educational program.
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“Solar on School Program” |
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To support an effort to install solar
panels on school buildings in the town of Londonderry.
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Granite State Dairy Promotion |
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The Rainforest Foundation |
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To support indigenous peoples and
traditional populations of the rainforest in their efforts to protect
their environment and fulfill their rights.
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Earth College |
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To support this College of Agriculture
for the Humid Tropic Regions in Costa Rica.
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Squam Lakes Association |
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To support creative environmental
education for New Hampshire Education for New Hampshire residents
and visitors. |
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