Greetings from Conservation Value Institute (CVI) and welcome to our educational 'library of sustainability'.

On this web site, we provide a selection of our favorite articles and tip sheets from across the web that illustrate (some directly, others indirectly) the many ways that maintaining a healthy environment also benefits our economy, public health, and quality of life.  

We have many exciting things planned, and encourage you to contact us if you are interested in getting involved.

Conservation Value Institute (CVI) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded to research and educate the public in practical environmental solutions. Our mission focuses on researching and educating the public in ways to simultaneously solve environmental problems, save money and improve our health and quality of life.  We aim to debunk the myth that protecting the environment is harmful to the economy and to foster its replacement by a positive vision of sustainability as the smart path to becoming wealthier, healthier and safer communities.

Targeting a Market With the Resources to Affect Change

Our main current market consists of traditional environmental ("green") consumer and business segments who are already interested in the benefits of sustainability (one segment being the rapidly growing Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability, or LOHAS Market).

We also aim to reach new environmental constituencies - people who might not consider themselves to be environmentally concerned, but who ARE interested in learning new ways to save money, boost their business profits, and live safer, healthier, and more secure (e.g., energy-independent) lives.

Our Team is of The Highest Quality

CVI was founded by a Ph.D. conservation biologist and sustainability specialist with over a decade of on-the-ground experience working with ranchers, agency and business officials, environmentalists, and top scientific and land management experts. Our selection of web resources is rooted in a deep scientific understanding of the science of sustainability - the specific causes of climate change, pollution and habitat destruction, and the specific consumer and business choices that can simultaneously reduce these impacts and improve peoples' lives.

The Board of Directors includes a founder of the California Sustainable Business Council and Executive Board officer of the California Resource Recovery Association, and a senior analyst of socially responsible investments.

CVI's Advisory Board includes a journalist and co-author of "The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable"; a land management expert who is the Director of The Nature Conservancy's Invasive Species Initiative; the founder of a successful online music marketing company; the Co-Chair of a prominent music industry voter-registration organization; and an esteemed conservation ecologist and ecophysiologist who has worked around the world as a biologist, international policy negotiator, environmental educator, and trainer, a renewable energy consultant and software architect, and a medical doctor.

Note: We are currently recruiting, both for our Board of Directors and Advisory Board, experts from academic, business, NGO, media, marketing, and government worlds to represent the diverse interests of our clientelle. Interested in becoming involved? Please contact us.

Note to Users About Our Web Site Content

As Conservation Value Institute grows, we will increasingly feature our own exclusive content. However, for not-for-profit educational purposes, we also seek to consolidate and publicize other information related to our mission. If you would prefer that we remove content of yours that is currently posted to this web site, please contact us.

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance awareness and understanding of how people, businesses, tribes, and government officials and can improve our economy, health, and quality of life by taking steps that benefit our environment. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. All efforts are made to provide accurate, timely pieces; though ultimate responsibility for verifying all information rests with the reader.