We choose this quote to emphasize that we trust succeeding generations
to make effective and responsible decisions to solve tomorrow’s
social and environmental problems. The giving strategy of the Lintilhac
Foundation is guided by personal identification. A trustee has
been deeply devoted to or experienced in the recipient’s interest,
whether it has involved the creation of a birthing center, the
purchase of a research vessel or the creation of lecture series.
One of the primary motivations for charity is to remedy the root
causes of poverty and disadvantage. We have a close association
with the University of Vermont and fund student scholarships in
an attempt to remedy disparities of opportunity between rich and
poor.
We support organizations like Vermont Public Interest Research
Group and the Conservation and Research Foundation, whose work
is often based on “The Precautionary Principle.”
The Precautionary Principle
“When an activity raises threats or harm to human health or the
environment, precautionary measures should be taken even if some
cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.”
We believe this is a common sense approach to present and future
environmental dilemmas.
Our support for these advocacy groups has also served to foster
a new generation of clean renewable energy and energy efficient
technologies that will provide us with a clear and clean path forward.
We are also working for an orderly de-commissioning of the Vermont
Nuclear Power Plant. We oppose nuclear energy because we believe
it is vulnerable to terrorist attack, it lacks a viable strategy
for waste disposal, and it
relies upon extraordinary federal intervention to maintain its
economic viability.
We are devoted to the women’s rights movement and will argue passionately
for the education of women. In funding Planned Parenthood, the
Vermont Women’s Fund, the Alternative Birthing Center, and other
organizations advocating for women’s and children’s rights, we
will continue the struggle for human dignity, freedom and equality.
The Lintilhac Foundation believes that our citizens are entitled
to national health insurance, a livable wage, state provided pensions,
a generous and nationally uniform level of spending on education,
the enforcement of laws ensuring the ability of unions to organize
and represent workers, and unemployment compensation that does
not force the unemployed to take inhumane work. We will continue
to advocate for these principles.
“This country has more problems than it deserves and more solutions
than it applies.”
Ralph Nader, Consumer and Environmental Advocate b.1934
Crea and Phil Lintilhac
Shelburne, Vermont, 2006