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American
Hiking Society’s National Trails Day |
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Stonyfield Farm contributed to National
Trails Day, a program of the American Hiking Society, by asking
our consumers to help us. Using the lids of our yogurt cups,
we invited yogurt-eaters to “Bid
With Their Lid” and choose between three different
organizations. They overwhelming supported National Trails Day,
an annual nationwide celebration featuring workshops and work
projects for volunteers to learn about and help maintain our
nation’s vital public trails system.
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Beyond
Pesticides |
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Stonyfield Farm contributed
to Beyond Pesticides, a Washington D.C.-based organization that
builds a national network to protect public health and the environment,
and to work toward a world that is free of toxic pesticides.
The organization identifies problem chemicals and works to promote
the use of alternatives.
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Chefs
Collaborative |
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The Chef's Collaborative is a network of more
than 1,000 members who promote eating organic food, protecting
the environment, and supporting family farmers and food growers.
They work with restaurant chefs and others. Stonyfield’s
Profit for the Planet funds helped create a Restaurant Guide
to help diners find participating member restaurants.
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The
Edible Schoolyard |
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The Edible Schoolyard is an innovative
school lunch curriculum that teaches children about planting,
growing and cooking organic foods through hands-on experiences.
Stonyfield’s Profits for the Planet
funding contributed to the Edible Schoolyard curriculum.
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Clean
Air - Cool Planet |
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With the support of Stonyfield Farm,
Clean Air-Cool Planet reached out to large and small responsible
businesses and advised them on energy efficiency, clean electricity
and climate-friendly transportation options. The organization
also works with farmers in the Northeast United States to help
them be part of solutions to global warming.
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Clearwater
Festival |
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Clearwater's music
and environmental festival, perhaps the nation's oldest and
largest of its kind, is powered by sustainable energy sources
like solar, wind, or bio-diesel fuel. Stonyfield's contribution
helped stage this annual event, with proceeds going to the
Clearwater organization's work to protect the nation's rivers.
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Conservation
Law Foundation |
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The Conservation Law Foundation
works throughout New England on environmental issues, tackling
such topics as bio-energy, solid waste and air quality permits,
renewable energy, and marine habitats. Profits
for the Planet funds went to support these efforts
at the state and regional levels.
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Earth
University |
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The United Nations Millenium Project
on the Future of the World cited Earth University as "directly
contributing to improving the world." Stonyfield Farm's Profits
for the Planet helped fund a scholarship for one
student to attend Earth University, a 4-year, private, nonprofit
school. The university, located in Costa Rica, recruits students
from poor, rural areas of the tropics, where sustainable agriculture
is a challenge. The goal is they will graduate with the skills
they need to return to their homes to make lasting change.
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Ecological
Farming Association |
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The Ecological Farming Association
works to educate more than 5000 farmers and consumers about
sustainable agriculture through conferences, field days and
festivals. Stonyfield’s contribution helped stage the
2004 Ecological Farming Conference, attended by farmers, activists,
educators and others.
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MassBike
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The Massachusetts Bike Coalition
(Massbike) works to promote biking, and protect and expand biking
opportunities in Massachusetts. Profits for the Planet funding
helped Massbike stage its annual "Bike Night" event, honoring
people who have worked to promote biking in the state. More
than 200 people attended the 2004 event.
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National
Wildlife Federation |
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Through our Bid
With Your Lid initiative, Stonyfield helped the National
Wildlife Federation fund projects to protect and restore wildlife
and wildlife habitats, to work on solutions to global warming,
and to encourage people to take action to help conserve and
restore wildlife across the country.
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New
Hampshire Holstein Club |
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Stonyfield's funding to the Holstein
Club helped put on the annual convention of the New England
Holstein Association.
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NH
Stories-The New Hampshire Farmers Market Association |
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The New Hampshire Farmer's
Market Association has helped to establish and provides ongoing
support to some 52 farmers markets across the state. Stonyfield's
funding helps the group get the word out and to recruit new
farmers and growers into taking part in the markets.
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Northeast
Organic Dairy Producers Alliance |
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The Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance
(NODPA) sends farmer representatives to the Midwest and West
Coast to network with other organic dairy producers. The organization
works to help dairy farmers communicate with each other through
meetings, field days, a newsletter, and a website, and the funding
from Stonyfield Farm contributes to those expenses.
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Northeast
Organic Farming Association (NOFA) |
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Stonyfield Farm helped
fund scholarships through NOFA to provide technical assistance
to farmers who are transitioning from conventional farming to
organic. Funds went to the New York, Vermont, and New Hampshire
chapters, and helped stage several events for dairy processors
and other agricultural groups.
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Organic
Center |
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The Organic Center is
striving to build a body of scientific evidence about the benefits
of organic food. Stonyfield Farm has contributed to this organization
at the start of its work in 2004 and will continue with significant
contributions in 2005. The center's research will lead to evidence-based
education that changes consumer behavior and attitudes about
organic products, and to smarter production methods, with less
polluted soil and water.
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Organic
Farming Research Foundation |
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The Organic Farming
Research Foundation was involved with 11 new organic farming
research and education projects in 2004 and Stonyfield's funding
helped support those projects. Funding also helped the organization
communicate with every organic farmer in the country through
a newsletter, informing them of important public policy discussions
and helping to ensure recognition for organic farming by public
funding sources.
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PCC
Farm Land Fund |
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The PCC Farm Land Fund
works to protect threatened farmland from development, to keep
that farmland in organic production, or to convert it to organic
production.
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UCSC
Farm & Garden Program |
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 The
Farm & Garden Program, based at the University of California-Santa
Cruz, trains apprentices who spend six months in both academic
and hands-on field experiences to learn about sustainable agricultural
practices and practical methods for growing fruits and vegetables.
Stonyfield's Profits for the Planet funding helped stage a fundraising
event for the program and to produce a directory showcasing
the kinds of projects graduates of the programs have gone on
to develop.
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