Focus Areas
Greengrants focuses its resources in seven major issue areas: biodiversity, climate change, energy, indigenous peoples, sustenance, water, and women.
Greengrants launched a designated climate fund in June 2010 in partnership with 1% for the Planet. Through this program, groups will receive $500–5,000 to
- Develop alternative energy sources
- Protect forests and plant trees
- Train farmers on resilient agricultural techniques, and
- Address climate change and its effects around the globe.
Read more about this topic: Global Greengrants Fund
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“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)
“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
—Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)