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The following is a list of projects that have received funding from NAFEC.
 

2003

 

2002

2001

 A Business and Charity Collaboration on Energy Conservation
 Binational Initiative for Installing New Sustainable Thermoelectric Plants in the US/Mexico Border Region
 Building an Integrated North American Market for Tradable Renewable Energy Certificates (TRCs)
 Building Capacities - Communities at Risk: Empowering Families to Decrease Costs Through Improved Home Energy Efficiency
 Building Capacity in Mexico to Assess Renewable Energy Policy Options Through Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
 Community Energy Planning with BC First Nations
 Creating Markets for Renewable Energy Products from Agriculture
 Energy for the Future in Mexican Rural Zones: Production of Wood-saving Stoves
 Firewood Management and Conservation, an Alternative for Energy Savings in Two Microregions in the Sierra Tarahumara
 LakeWind Community Wind Power Consortium
 Promoting Sustainable Energy Development in the Texas/Mexico Border Region
 Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency Program
 Seeding Green Power: Community Pilot Project to Develop an International Green Standard for Small-Scale Hydropower
 Smart Bylaws: How To Green Your Bylaws So They Protect Your Environment and Save Money
 Solar Coffee Dryers
 Sustainable Energy for Teocelo, Veracruz
 Technological Development, Implementation and Promotion of Solar Coffee Dryers in Peasant Communities in Chiapas, Mexico
 The Cool Shops Program

 “Operation Wells”: A Project to have Children Monitor Groundwater
 Air for Health Education Program: Promoting Air quality and Health Issue Links in School Curriculums
 Alaska Incineration Project
 Building the Capacity of Children Farmworkers and Their Families to Better Address Environmental Health Hazards
 Community Strategy on Fisheries and Tourism Management in the Parque Nacional Arrecifes de Xcalak Protected Natural Area
 Developing Economic Incentives for Marine Resource Conservation in Two Marine Protected Areas of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
 Encouraging Public Participation in the Protection of Children's Health and the Environment
 Health + Pollution --
 Healthy Schools, Healthy Children Project
 Igaliqtuuq: Community Stewardship of a Bowhead Whale Sanctuary
 Marine Protected Areas Initiative
 National Right-to-Know Network
 On the Path of the Grey Whale: Linking Local MPA Efforts from Baja California to the Bering Sea
 Orca Pass International Stewardship Area: The Outreach and Involvement Campaign
 Reduction of lead exposure and emissions in the community of Santa Fe de la Laguna, Mexico
 Salud Ambiental, Latinas Tomando Acción en Colonia Chilpancingo: An Environmental Education and Empowerment Training Program
 Strengthening Public Participation in the Conservation of the Cozumel Protected Natural Area

2000

1999

 A Virtual Forum for the Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry
 Building an Environmental Justice Network through Citizen Monitoring, Air Sampling and using Geographic Information Systems
 Clean production project for the Great Lakes Basin communities
 Community capacity-strengthening for sustainable forest management in the Sierra Madre of Chihuahua
 Conservation and restoration of biodiversity in the cultivation of coffee and other organic products in Chiapas
 Ecotourism Program in the Indigenous Community of Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mich.
 New Mexico Wolf Tourism Project
 North American cooperation for sustainable coffee: Beyond the niche market
 North American Guide Exchange Project -- Strengthening Communities Through Sustainable Tourism
 PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry): an exercise in community use
 Realizing the Transition to a Conservation Based Approach to the Forests and Economy
 Southeast Houston: Cleaner Communities for Better Health
 Strengthening Community Level Use of PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry) Data in North America
 Strengthening sustainable use and marketing of non-timber forest products in the Mexican humid tropics
 Strengthening the Farmworker Community's Capacity to Monitor Pesticide Risks and Forming Alliances for Alternative Solutions
 The Millennium Trek - A Gwich'in Journey to the Birthing Grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd

 A Virtual Forum for the Pollutant Release and Transfer Registry
 Cascadia AirNET Transboundary High School Air Quality Education Program
 Coffee with a Cause: For the Development of Fair Trade in North America
 Community Development and Public Awareness in the Laguna Madre of Tamaulipas
 Community Management of the Right to Environmental Information in Baja California
 Community-based Salt Marsh Restoration in the Canadian Gulf of Maine
 Creating the 'Green Link' for Sustainably Produced Indigenous Goods and Services
 Development of a Protocol Framework for Meaningful Consultation with Canada's Aboriginal People on Forest Management
 Eco-efficient Community Initiatives (EECI) - Phase II
 Ecosystem-based Planning for the Queen Charlotte Islands - Haida Gwaii
 Environmental Conservation and Integrated Development through Ecotourism in the Pueblos Mancomunados
 From Orcas to Oystercatchers: A Community-based Campaign to Protect Transboundary Marine Resources
 Increasing Information and Awareness in relation to Mercury Disposal Sites
 Increasing Public Participation at the Community Level in Mexico
 Integrating Bird Studies with Restoration Activities in the Mono Basin
 International Accreditation of CERTIMEX
 Knowledge and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Oaxaca
 Market Promotion in the Green Building Materials and Services Sector
 Meeting the Habitat Requirements of Cavity-dependent Wildlife
 Norms for Natural Resource Management
 Promoting Shade Coffee within the Limited-use Buffer Zone of EI Triunfo Biosphere Reserve
 SmartWood’s Promoting Biological Diversity Through Sustainable Certification
 Sustaining the Upper San Pedro River in Mexico
 Towards Transboundary Management for the Flathead River Drainage
 US Gulf of Maine Protected Areas Initiative
 Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network

1998

1997

 A crash course in conservation biology
 A road to sustainability: social ecological micro-enterprises in the hands of poor women
 Border Water Roundtable
 Certification & Marketing: organic agriculture, forest garden, non-timber forest products and timber forest products
 Clean water, healthy communities: community-promoted sanitation projects in central and southern Mexico
 Coffee with a Cause: Lessons from the European Experience
 Community capacity-strengthening for sustainable forest management
 Community Solutions to Toxic Contamination/additional support
 Community-based Conservation in the Northwestern Lake Superior Landscape
 Community-based economic and ecological conservation and restoration
 Ecological Fisheries Management in the Bay of Fundy - writing the rules
 Green Herbal Markets
 Important Bird Areas (IBAs), Phase II
 Landowner surveys on the Mexican plateau
 Lower Colorado River Basin Conservation Plan Bi-national Outreach Project
 Maritime Important Bird Area (IBA) Program
 Migrant Farmworkers' Pesticide Project
 National assessment of non-wood forest products in the US
 Promoting Biological Diversity through Sustainable Certification and Fair Trade
 Promoting certified organic products in Mexico
 Raising iguanas: a strategy for their protection and conservation
 Sonoran Ecotourism Project
 The Caribou Commons Project
 The Transamerica Migratory Bird Fund: Conservation through community-based programming
 Training for sustainability in the Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve
 Training nature guides in protected areas of the Yucatan peninsula
 US/Mexico Comparable Industries Study: identifying potential risks and pollution prevention strategies
 Yellowstone to Yukon: Conservation Plans 2000

 A community model for watershed health assessment
 Community Solutions to Toxic Contamination
 Conservation and Use of Mexican Cacti and Succulent Plants
 Developing Regional Standards for Forest Management
 Direct marketing and trade for sustainable management of resources
 Eco-design Resource Group
 Ecological craft production and sustainable managment and use of the forest in two communities in the Purepecha region
 Energy conservation to complement the village hybrid system of Xcalak, Quintana Roo
 Implementation of a wave-driven sea water pump for fisheries development and coastal management in rural communities
 Important Bird Areas, community-based habitat conservation for birds
 Increasing Public Participation in Environmental Decisions in Mexico
 Indigenous Perspectives on Preventing Desertification
 Integrated agricultural development for indigenous families in the Lacandona rain forest
 Legal Action for Sustainable Development
 Linking communities, wetlands and migratory birds
 Marketing Organically Grown Medicinal Plants
 Mercury elimination and reduction challenge: toward North American partnership
 Minority Communities and Chester Springs Alive!
 Naco Constructed Wetlands Microenterprise Project
 New Tools for Supporting Environmental Decisions
 Operation SWIM (Sub-Watershed Investigative Monitoring)
 Outreach Component of the Colorado River Delta and Upper Gulf Restoration Project
 Production and marketing of environmentally-certified forest products
 Promoting Organic Coffee Cultivation using Community Radio
 Resources - Québec Waterways
 Self Sufficiency for Baja California's Indigenous Communities
 Setting National Standards for Sustainable and Alternative Markets in Mexico
 St. Regis Mohawk Tribe/Pace Energy Project
 Stream restoration projects in Bertrand and Fishtrap Creeks
 Support to 15 forest communities (ejidos) to improve forest management and obtain certification
 Sustainable and Participatory Forest Management for Communities in the area of the Monarch Butterfly Reserve
 Sustaining communities and environment
 The Eco-efficient Communities Initiative: facilitating greenhouse gas emissions reductions in small and mid-sized communities
 The Heliwells Butterfly Natural Preserve


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