Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [to 6 February 2016]

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation [to 6 February 2016]
https://www.moore.org/newsroom/press-releases

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Press Releases
Peninsula Open Space Trust announces groundbreaking initiative to triple preserved farmland in San Mateo County
Peninsula Open Space Trust – February 4, 2016
The Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST) today announced a groundbreaking new initiative to triple the amount of preserved farmland acreage and the number of preserved farms on the San Mateo coast over the next 10 years.
One of the most ambitious farming conservation programs in the history of the Bay …

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$3.6M awarded from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to advance a West Coast Earthquake Early Warning system
February 2, 2016
At the White House Summit on Earthquake Resilience today, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced $3.6 million in grants to advance a West Coast Earthquake Early Warning system. The funding to California Institute of Technology, University of California, Berkeley, University of Washington and the U.S. Geological Survey supports the …
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Final agreement will permanently safeguard 85 percent of Great Bear Rainforest
Rainforest Solutions Project
February 1, 2016
Vancouver, British Columbia — Today First Nations governments and the BC government, with the support of ForestEthics Solutions, Greenpeace, Sierra Club BC and five forestry companies, announced the fulfilment of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements. Eighty-five percent (3.1 million hectares) of the remote wilderness region’s coastal temperate rainforests are now permanently …
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