Sentence examples for environmental grants from inspiring English sources

Lisa Pike, who oversees Patagonia's environmental grants, said: "He's proving Wall Street wrong.

The environmental grants are intended to attract new, younger "commoners" to continue the traditions that have contributed to the rich biodiversity of the forest.

They included $12 million in previously unclaimed environmental grants, $1.2 million by billing for ambulance service and $217,000 saved by disconnecting 1,800 unused telephone lines.

At the meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Suozzi told the board that the county had already claimed more than $12 million in federal environmental grants and had reduced overtime costs by almost $4.5 million.

Two environmental grants total $5.3 million, and there are individual grants in agriculture ($13.4 million), fisheries ($3.4 million), and forestry ($6.7 million).

Organizations with annual budgets greater than $5 million make up only two percent of all environmental groups, yet receive more than half of all environmental grants and donations.

Mr. Thiele, a former Southampton Town supervisor, said the money would come from Southampton's Community Preservation Fund and a matching state environmental grant.

"The worst of the carbon-offset programs resemble the Catholic Church's sale of indulgences back before the Reformation," said Denis Hayes, the president of the Bullitt Foundation, an environmental grant-making group.

Analysis of environmental grant-making between 2007-2009 reveals that only 15percentt of environmental grant dollars are classified as benefiting marginalized communities, and only 11percentt are classified as advancing "social justice" strategies, such as community organizing.

In 1990, Congress passed the National Environmental Education Act, which provides funding for teacher training, national-and local-level environmental education grants, the President's Environmental Youth Award Program, and environmental education projects among federal agencies.

It also provides "environmental restoration grants" to wildlife services to fund measures like elephant tracking. .