1997 GRANTS MAIN INDEX • GRANTS & FINANCES

Consumption

The Wallace Global Fund is exploring strategies to promote sustainable consumption. There is growing recognition that industrial nations must reduce and shift consumption patterns to ensure that future generations have adequate resources, and that those same generations do not inherit an unmanageable amount of waste. The Fund welcomes proposals that address institutional consumption of natural resources in a creative and leveraged way.

Center for a New American Dream (CNAD) - $50,000

General operating support. The Center was established to serve as a clearinghouse of information and to initiate a national dialogue on sustainable consumption and the environment.

Center for the Study of Responsive Law - $10,000

Support for Resource Conservation Alliance’s administrative support of Taking the Demand out of Deforestation: A Briefing for Foundations on Reducing Demand for Wood Products, which addressed the need to reduce industrial and consumer demand for wood products, diversify resources, and identify alternatives to current timber practices.

Earth Island Institute - $50,000

Continued support for the Rethink Paper project, which addresses US consumption of paper and other wood products. The project educates consumers about the environmental costs of virgin wood-based paper and alternatives to such wood uses, as well as works with producers of these products to encourage a transition to non-wood materials and ecologically-sound production processes.

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) - $100,000 over two years

Support to Consumer’s Choice Council, created in response to targeted industry attempts to dismiss or overturn existing eco-labeling programs. The Campaign will also encourage the greening of government procurement and coordinate efforts among its 41 NGO members in the US and Europe.