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Environment
Goals
The Foundation seeks to conserve, protect, improve and restore the state’s natural areas; to ensure clean air and water for all North Carolinians; and to minimize the burden of the state’s environmental hazards, particularly on marginalized communities.
Results Sought
The Foundation invests in organizations and projects that achieve the following:
1: Prevent poor communities and communities of color from bearing a disproportionately high or adverse burden of environmental hazards
- Ensure a fair and effective system to monitor placement and enforce reduction of environmental hazards
- Increase involvement of communities in the development, implementation, and enforcement of policies and regulations
- Improve and/or restore the water quality of rivers, wetlands and lakes
- Prevent damage to water quality and quantity
- Ensure access for all to rivers and lakes
3: Guarantee clean air for all - Reduce toxic, mobile source and greenhouse gas emissions
- Prevent damage to climate and air quality
- Increase energy conservation and the amount of renewable energy used
4: Conserve green space - Increase the amount of permanently protected land
- Protect and restore critical forest habitats
- Ensure access for all to open space and forests
- Improve community planning and development patterns to meet the growth demands of the state in environmentally sound ways
5: Guarantee a healthy coastal ecosystem - Prevent damage to wetlands, coastline and coastal waters
- Improve and/or restore wetlands and coastal waters
- Ensure access for all to coastal waters and ocean
2: Guarantee clean water for all
Within this focus area, priority is given to regional (multi-county) and statewide efforts.
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