Green America is a nonprofit membership organization based in the United States that promotes ethical consumerism. Founded in 1982, by Paul Freundlich, it is dedicated to harnessing the economic power of consumers, investors and businesses to promote social justice and environmental sustainability through helping responsible consumers and green businesses find each other in the marketplace.
Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and as of 2021 accounted for 20 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero-carbon electricity in the United States. 1 An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. 2
Green America was one of more than 600 co-signing organizations on a January 2019 open letter to Congress titled “Legislation to Address the Urgent Threat of Climate Change.” The signatories declared their support for new laws to bring about “100 percent decarbonization” of the transportation sector but denounced nuclear power as an example of “dirty energy” that should not be included in any legislation promoting the use of so-called “renewable energy.”3
All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:
Total Grant Value:$16,562,348
Number of Grants:736
Number of Funders:197
Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:
Amount
Year
Funder
Subject
$1,000,000
2024
Woka Foundation
Soil Carbon Initiative
$1,000,000
2023
Woka Foundation
Empower and incentivize growers and the food supply chain to embrace regenerative agriculture to drawdown carbon, increase biodiversity, regenerate soil, and build climate change resiliency
Empower and incentivize growers and the food supply chain to embrace regenerative agriculture to drawdown carbon, increase biodiversity, regenerate soil, and build climate change resiliency
$750,000
2021
Woka Foundation
Supporting the Soil Carbon Initiative (SCI) by assembling case studies of farmers with robust soil health systems, conducting Farmer-to-Farmer learning, and creating a commitment program for brands to source from suppliers that meet SCI standards.
Empower and incentivize growers and the food supply chain to embrace regenerative agriculture to drawdown carbon, increase biodiversity, regenerate soil, and build climate change resiliency
$400,000
2021
Ann Theodore Foundation
TO SUPPORRT THE ORGANIZATION'S MISSION TO STRENGTHEN CONSUMERS, INVESTORS, BUSINESSES, AND THE MARKETPLACE TO CREATE A SOCIALLY JUST AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY.
TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATON'S MISSON TO STRENGTHEN COMSUMERS, INVESTORS, BUSINESESSES, AND TEH MARKETPLACE TO CREATE A SOCIALLY JUST AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY.
$225,000
2023
Ann Theodore Foundation
TO SUPPORT THE ORGANIZATON'S MISSON TO STRENGTHEN COMSUMERS, INVESTORS, BUSINESESSES, AND TEH MARKETPLACE TO CREATE A SOCIALLY JUST AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY.
Supporting the Soil Carbon Initiative (SCI) by assembling case studies of farmers with robust soil health systems, conducting Farmer-to-Farmer learning, and creating a commitment program for brands to source from suppliers that meet SCI standards.
The Green New Deal (GND) refers to a U.S. House of Representatives resolution and various legislative proposals supported by radical environmentalist groups. While details of the…
