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Borderlands Team: Video Screenings and Community Meetings
$9,000 for outreach campaign and road show, including video screenings of Wild vs. Wall, to educate public about border walls’ environmental impact. $5,000 for organizing event/lobby day and $5,000 for targeted ad campaign and outreach opposing Bishop bill (HR 1505). |
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California/Nevada Wilderness Team: Words of the Wild
$1,500 for printing and mailing newsletter in support of California/Nevada wilderness and supporting migration to email and web outreach. |
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Clean Air Team: Challenging Gold Mine Emissions
$9.000 to support possible litigation challenging EPA’s failure to adhere to Clean Air Act in regards to gold mine emissions. |
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Climate Action Leadership Team: Building Climate-Friendly Communities
$9,000 to build on existing Cool Cities programs on the San Francisco peninsula to work for more walkable, bikeable transit-accessible neighborhoods, and energy efficiency upgrades to buildings. |
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Forest Certification Team: Good Wood
$6,950 to promoting credible forest certification systems and campaigning within U.S. Green Building Council to keep its certified wood standards high. |
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Grazing Team: Building Support for Rural Economic Vitalization Act
$8,275 for educational and lobby project building support for legislation that would compensate ranchers for voluntarily retiring their grazing permits. |
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Marine Team: Blue Vision Summit/National Ocean Policy/Aquaculture
$9,000 to bring new and veteran ocean activists to Washington, D.C. for Blue Vision Summit, team meeting, and lobby day. $9,000 to organize regional Club events in conjunction with National Ocean Policy planning sessions. $5,000 to develop education and outreach program in support of sustainable aquaculture. |
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Mattawoman Creek: Protect Rivers and Streams Through Smart Growth
$9,000 to enforce the Clean Water Act to protect the Mattawoman Creek and Chesapeake Bay. |
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Natural Gas Education and Outreach Project: Split Estate House Parties
$4,000 for film screening/house parties/educational workshops on natural gas issues in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico, and recruiting prospective leaders in each community. |
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Missouri River Team: Responsible Management
$9,000 to engage Club members and allies in the public debate surrounding Senate-sponsored review of Missouri River management, to advocate for wildlife and advantages of non-structural flood-control measures. |
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Nuclear Issues Team: 2012 Assemby
$9,000 for national conference to build a stronger national anti-nuclear movement — emulating coal campaign and targeting plants up for relicensing and/or proposed new ones and proposing clean energy alternatives. |
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Recreation Issues Team: Ground-Truthing
$900 to protect specific national forest sites from motorized impacts by verifying or refuting information about trails through on-the-ground field investigations. |
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Resilient Habitats Lobby Project 2011
$24,000 for spring and fall lobby weeks on public lands issues, a joint project of the Wildlands and the Wildlife & Endangered Species teams. |
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Restore Chesapeake Bay Team: Limit Nutrient Runoff
$9,000 to advocate for strong watershed implementation plan, putting the bay on a “pollution diet” that limits nutrient runoff. |
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Save the Baylands Team: Stop Cargill Saltworks
$5,500 to support community events to build opposition to a development that on retired salt ponds in San Francisco Bay. |
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Toxics Team: Reduce Exposure to Persistent Bio-Accumulative Toxins
$6,500 to reduce exposure to PBTs, such as mercury, though public education and by defending against industry attempts to undermine existing rules. |
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Trade, Human Rights, and Environment Team: Investor Rights Education
$8,900 to educate the public on how global trade agreements limit democracy by giving corporations rights not available under national laws. |
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Utah Wilderness Team: Build Support for Red Rock Wilderness Act
$5,000 for outreach, volunteer recruitment, and lobbying to build congressional support for legislation that would secure protection for 9.5 million acres of federal public wild land in Utah. |
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Wildlands Team: Organizing Event in Salt Lake City
$5,000 to support planning meeting to develop strategic plan for 2012, and how to engage and train new activists. |
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Wildlife & Endangered Species Team: Organizing Event
$4,000 to support planning meeting to develop strategic plan for 2012, and recruit dedicated wildlife activists/lobbyists in 10 states. |
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Zero Waste Team: Creating Zero Waste Advocates at Local Level
$9,000 to organize Zero Waste and Extended Producer Responsibility seminars targeted to local environmental justice, global warming, and recycling activists. |
