To promote energy efficiency in Ohio by ensuring proper implementation of the new law, developing policies that encourage Combined Heat and Power systems in the industrial sector, and establishing model efficiency financing programs for cities.
To discourage construction of new coal-fired power plants and retire existing plants by providing advocates with analytical tools that demonstrate coal plants are bad investments for shareholders, investors and ratepayers.
To promote precautionary federal chemicals policy by supporting policy models in key states and then bringing them to bear in discussion about comparable reforms at the federal level.
To support Vermont’s artisan cheesemakers through education and technical assistance that will produce cheeses of consistently high quality and reduced microbiological risks.
To use the findings of the Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging report to engage senior citizens’ organizations and their memberships in promoting policies that will foster healthier living for all ages.
To support the 2010 Vermont Cheesemakers Festival.
To support research into functional dissection of the central cholinergic system in cognition by John Merck Scholar Adam Kepecs.
To support research on regulation of excitatory synaptogenesis by GABA in the developing brain by John Merck Scholar finalist Cagla Eroglu.
To support research on activity-dependent regulation of GABAergic synapses and neural circuit plasticity by John Merck Scholar Yingxi Lin.
To support research on the origins of mathematics in the developing brain by John Merck Scholar finalist Jessica Cantlon.