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Environment

Answering the most significant environmental challenges of our time.

The primary goals of the Environment Program are to save the great natural landscapes of the North American West; prevent global warming and pollution resulting from fossil fuels; and build stronger, more diverse constituencies for environmental protection in California.

Faced with the growing scale of environmental destruction worldwide, we continued to focus our grantmaking in 2006 on strategies designed to make a large-scale difference. These strategies are projected to save billions of barrels of oil, preserve millions of acres of wilderness, save hundreds of thousands of lives by reducing air pollution, eliminate tens of millions of tons of greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, and preserve or restore hundreds of miles of rivers.

Such ambitious work calls for the committed, talented leadership found in the best conservation organizations. At times, it demands new coalitions, including coalitions of people who have not been natural allies or activists, but who are motivated to halt the environmental degradation of their community, their nation, or the planet.

Our grantees in the U.S. West have already seen this unity in areas threatened by development. For example, Trout Unlimited has helped bring to the fore the voices of hunters and anglers who argue that the remaining untrammeled national forests should remain roadless. The Greater Yellowstone Coalition has mobilized dozens of ranchers on such issues as coal bed methane, protection against all-terrain vehicles, and water rights.

Support for these unusual, but effective, coalitions is a key part of our $32-million, four-year Climate Change Initiative, launched in 2006, which seeks comprehensive federal action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2006, the Environment Program made grants totaling $62,128,305.