RESEARCH IN ACTION
The Physicians Foundation released the results of a national survey of physicians that finds strong negative feelings towards the new health care reform law and fear that patient care will suffer in the months and years ahead.
The survey was intended to gauge physicians’ initial reaction to the passage of health reform and to learn the ways in which they plan to respond to it. Continue Reading »
RESEARCH IN ACTION
Water quality and quantity has always been a central concern of the environmental movement.
A recent surge in grassroots activism points to a new set of water worries – bottled water extraction and the privatization of public water supplies.
Bottled Water Battles
The board and staff of the Cox Trust noticed a trend of bottled water battles in many New England towns. As a regional foundation with an interest in protecting water, the Trust asked its colleagues at the New England Grassroots Environmental Fund to document the problem. Continue Reading »
GRANTEES IN THE NEWS
Source: Time Magazine
Time Magazine recently profiled the Blacksmith Institute’s President Richard Fuller. The Blacksmith Institute works in some of the world’s worst polluted places, sharing resources and expertise with local groups and agencies to solve pollution problems, clean up polluted sites, and save lives.
To read the article, click here.
Featuring the Blacksmith Insitute, a grantee of the Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation
