Our Mission & Goals

Conservation Value Institute (CVI) is a non-profit research and communication think tank that improves public understanding of how environmental solutions benefit our economy, health, security and quality of life. 

Founded by a rare conservation scientist and communications expert, CVI serves as a bridge between the science underlying sustainability and citizens and decisionmakers, empowering them to make our world better.

We organize our work around three key programmatic goals:

• Advancing the Green Economy: CVI follows hot topics in sustainability, and educates citizens and decision-makers in the ways that Green Economy solutions are immediately relevant to their daily lives.


• Entertainment Industry Partnerships: CVI partners with musicians and events to actively involve fans in the Green Economy.


• Sustainable Land Use: CVI champions sustainable land use solutions that make conservation both possible and profitable, protecting the health of our biosphere and human well-being.
  

About This Web Site

This web site is our educational 'online library of sustainability'. Here, we catalogue -- in the form of our favorite articles and tip sheets from across the web -- overwhelming evidence of the ways that maintaining a healthy environment benefits our economy, public health, security, and quality of life.

CVI - Current Notices

Web Design and Development Opportunity - CVI is currently seeking a graphic/web page designer, as well as a programmer with expertise in CMS development, to develop Volume III of this web site, starting as soon as possible. Interested candidates, please contact Executive Director, Jon Gelbard (contact info to right).

Join Our Board of Directors : We are currently recruiting, for our Board of Directors, experts from academic, business, NGO, media, marketing, and government worlds to represent the diverse interests of our audience. Interested in helping us advance New Green Economy solutions? 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.