Reef Check
Green Belt Movement

Environment


Goal: Protect and restore California's environment
Geographic focus: Northern California with an emphasis on the San Francisco Bay Area
Support programs that:
  • •  Conserve land, water and coastal resources
  • •  Promote environmental health
    • Improve air and water quality; reduce exposure to toxics; protect communities living with disproportionate levels of pollution
  • •  Advocate for policies that address the environmental impacts of population growth
    • Encourage smart growth and transportation planning; ensure conservation-oriented water management; foster conservation-oriented energy planning

Goal: Reduce impact of industry on the environment
Geographic focus: California, national, international
Support programs that:
  • •  Protect natural resources from extraction processes
  • •  Reduce pollution, toxics and waste from production processes
  • •  Encourage laws, policies and corporate behaviors that support sustainable, sensible and sound industry practice
  • •  Stimulate large-scale market shifts toward recycled materials, alternative inputs and conservation

Goal: Protect threatened habitat
Geographic focus: International
Support programs that:
  • •  Pursue unique opportunities to attain large-scale, globally significant and lasting conservation
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