FUNDING BENEFICIAL RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

BIODIVERSITY & ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

• Creating and preserving migration pathways
• Ecosystem health and biodiversity
• Environmental remediation
• Fire ecology and ecosystem regeneration
• Fish hatcheries
• Forests, streams, rivers, wetlands, and estuary ecosystem preservation, restoration and regeneration
• Plant and animal conservation
• Pollinator health
• Watershed management and protection

COMMUNICATION

• Communication research
• Non-violent communication

CRAFTS & TRADES

• Basketweaving
• Ceramics and pottery
• Electrical repair and safety
• Engine repair
• Furniture making
• Glassmaking
• Jewellery making
• Leatherwork and tanning
• Mechanics and practical engineering
• Metallurgy, blacksmithing, metal smelting, and casting
• Plumbing
• Soapmaking
• Stonemasonry
• Welding
• Woodworking, carpentry, and wood carving

EDUCATION

• Educational materials
• Lesson and unit plans

ENERGY

• Alternative energy sources
• Biomass fuels
• Energy storage
• Geothermal power
• Hydroelectric power
• Renewable energy
• Solar power
• Steam power and turbines
• Wave power
• Wind power

FOOD

• Animal nutrition
• Baking and breadmaking
• Butchery
• Butter and cheese making
• Cooking skills and healthy recipes
• Communal kitchens
• Food preservation techniques (including dehydrating, drying, canning, and fermenting)
• Human nutrition
• Meal planning
• Milling grain
• Pressing oil
• Wine and beer making

GARDENING, AGRICULTURE & PERMACULTURE

• Agricultural and gardening methods that promote biodiversity
• Animal husbandry
• Animal welfare
• Aquaculture and fisheries
• Beekeeping
• Composting
• Crop rotation
• Dairy farming
• Environmentally sustainable farming and gardening methods
• Forestry management
• Gathering, recording and sharing heirloom varieties
• Horse training
• Invasive species management
• Irrigation and drainage
• Livestock breeding and keeping
• Mushroom cultivation
• Natural and sustainable pest and disease management
• Orchard management
• Organic farming
• Permaculture
• Pollinator plants
• Poultry breeding and keeping
• Pruning, planting, and cultivating techniques
• Raised bed gardening
• Seed saving
• Soil fertility

GREEN CONSTRUCTION

• Adobe, cobb and straw bale construction
• Brick making
• Composting toilets and waste management
• Concrete making
• Design principles and plans for eco builds
• Eco housing
• Eco villages
• Energy efficient buildings
• Green roofing
• Green wastewater systems
• House framing
• Log home construction
• Passive solar building designs
• Post and beam houses
• Recycled and repurposed building materials
• Sustainable urban planning
• Thatched roofing
• Tiny houses
• Traditional and sustainable construction methods and materials
• Traditional pit houses

KNOWLEDGE KEEPING

• Audio and book archiving
• Oral histories
• Traditional crafts and knowledge

SHARING RESOURCES

• Community kitchens
• Skill sharing
• Tool sharing

TEXTILES

• Designing and making clothing, bedding, soft furnishings and rugs
• Fibre arts (sewing, tailoring, knitting, crochet, spinning, weaving, felting, dyeing)
• Natural and sustainable dyes and textiles
• Processing plant materials into textiles
• Recycled, upcycled, and repurposed textiles
• Shoemaking and leatherwork

TRANSPORTATION

• Bicycles
• Bicycle trailers
• Boat building

• Canoe building
• Handcarts
• Kayak building
• Sailing instruction
• Traditional navigation methods

WATER

• Locating potable water
• Water collection and storage
• Water purification and distillation

WELLNESS

• Ancestral foods
• Aromatherapy
• Bowen therapy
• Breastfeeding
• Breathwork
• Elder care
• Equine therapy
• Exercise and movement
• First aid
• Homeopathy
• Hygiene
• Hypnotherapy
• Infant and maternal nutrition
• Infant care
• Meditation
• Natural childbirth
• Neurofeedback
• Relaxation
• Remedying nutritional deficiencies
• Restorative sleep

WILDERNESS KNOWLEDGE

• Fishing
• Gathering, foraging and wildcrafting
• Hunting
• Survival techniques
• Tracking
• Trapping