Audio segments from Trees Radio Hour! Interview with Dr. Dan Ihara, E.D. of the Center for Environmental Economic Development December, 2004 Panelists explore the potential bioregional effects of global warming and opportunities for individual and collective action to mitigate the human impact on the global climate during this call-in roundtable.

CEED was established in 1993 with a mission of helping organizations and individuals develop environmentally sustainable and socially just communities. CEED's projects and programs include watershed and environmental restoration, ecologically sustainable economic development, and the creation of environmentally beneficial businesses.

CEED's primary programs are Zero Waste, Climate Change Outreach, Financing Sustainable Development, Environmental Economic Development Research, and Sustainable Humboldt County. The Sustainable Humboldt program is building a network of active sustainability practitioners in the fields of forest and watersheds management, agriculture, and just communities. In the spring of 2002, CEED sponsored two invitational community meetings for such practitioners. These meetings functioned as think-tank forums allowing a diverse group of people to identify barriers to creating economically and ecologically balanced communities and to brainstorm about solutions to implementation difficulties.

CEED completed a groundbreaking study of the costs to Humboldt County of the 94-year-old PG&E Potter Valley Project and the interbasin diversion of the mainstem Eel River headwaters into the Russian River. Entitled A River in The Balance: Benefits and Costs of Restoring Natural Water Flows to the Eel River, it was well received by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, North Coast media, and water advocates.


CEED Update
The Center for Environmental Economic Development, CEED, describe itself as a catalyst for sustainable development.But what is sustainable development? (read more)

Center for Environmental Economic Development
December 10, 2007
CEED (the Center for Environmental Economic Development) will be celebrating its 15th anniversary this coming year, and EPIC just celebrated its 30th year. CEED is still the "new kid on the block," although it is coming of age. The two organizations definitely share some history though..." (read more)


Center for Environmental Economic Development: What is Economic Development?
December 1, 2005
What, exactly, is the Center for Environmental Economic Development (CEED), and what do we do? Perhaps some folks are not familiar with the term "economic development." The term "development" or "developer" brings to mind real estate speculators subdividing and building condos and shopping malls for economic gain. CEED is certainly not that sort of developer, nor does our name imply that sort of economics, business, or development. CEED may, however, strongly recommend policies to make development greener, or more sustainable, through green building methods and energy conservation, for example, or through the use of FSC-certified wood. Yet at the same time, CEED supports efforts such as "Smart Growth," which encourages communities to question the dominant development model. (read more)


What is Sustainability--Ecological, Cultural, Economic?
September 20, 2005
A Vision of Environmental Sustainability and Abundance (read more)


CEED: Active Arcata to Ashland to Anchorage
April 4, 2005
The Arcata-based Center for Environmental Economic Development (CEED) is part of the Planwest Partners team of consultants working on the Energy Element of the Humboldt County General Plan for the Redwood Coast Energy Authority. In another Humboldt County consultation, CEED is finishing up an evaluation of Redwood Community Action Agency's Lindsay Creek Watershed Project, which is producing a watershed assessment handbook for use in other watersheds. On March 1, CEED and others heard Susan Beresford, president of the Ford Foundation (which funds two of CEED's projects) discuss development issues at the United Indian Health Service's Potowot Health Village facility in Arcata. (read more)


CEED
December 8, 2004
The Arcata-based Center for Environmental Economic Development is evolving and growing, which is good news. The bad news is the continued societal need for more sustainable economic development. (read more)


The Center for Environmental Economic Development
September 6, 2004
National Conference Learns of Economic Benefits from Restoration (read more)


The Center for Environmental Economic Development: Bridging the Gap Between Sustainable Communities and Global Policy-Making
July 17, 2000

The Trees Foundation Board and staff formally welcome our new Affiliate organizations and fiscally sponsored projects. We are honored to add them to the network of grassroots forest organizations that we serve, and we look forward to working together. (read more)


Center for Environmental Economic Development: Burning up the Future?
Two recent well-researched articles in Science 1 are causing climate change policy makers to take another look at "biofuels." A large mistake in the methodology of measuring meant that the emissions tied to land use conversions were being ignored. (read more)



Contact Information

Email: ceed@humboldt1.com
Web Site: www.ceedweb.org
Phone: (707) 822-8347 - Fax: (707) 822-4457
P.O. Box 4167 Arcata, CA 95521