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- EIN 46-1864221
- (617) 930-3274
- 30 Ipswich St Apt 211 Boston MA 02215-3608 USA
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Causes: Animal-Related, Animals
Mission: To promote greater understanding of how human beings are ultimately and totally dependent on the natural world, so that policy-makers and the public recognize that we have no other choice but to preserve it.
Programs: Climate change - working with prince charles of wales and his international sustainability unit to develop a global medical initiative to address climate change.
toxic chemicals and food production - working to expose the signigicant environmental and public health hazards of new class of pesiticides call neonicotinoids, that are widely used in growing genetically-modified foods, and are strongly linked to bee colony collapse disorder and to threats to other organisms.
protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services - bringing the best of the best science to the debate about the practice of clear-cutting patches of watershed forest in massachusetts and other states.
perserving the natural world - producing an enhanced electronic book, nature's toolkit: engineering secrets for sustainable design, that showcases unique engineering models found in nature, each the product of natural selection and perfectly suited to its task, models that we must preserve by protecting the organisms in which they are found, and must understand if we are to learn how to live more sustainably.