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.
In Ashland, Oregon, CEED participated in the Bioregional Opportunities Network meeting, coordinated by the Collaborative Learning Circle. Following that meeting, CEED organized a panel on Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change at the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference at the University of Oregon. The panel featured Rosalie Little Thunder, Chairperson of the Seventh Generation Fund; Jihan Gearon of the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (www.ejcc.org); and Tero Mustonen, project manager of SnowChange (www.snowchange.org) calling in from Iceland.
In Anchorage, Alaska, CEED's Saami-Baiki project (www.baiki.org) has conducted a series of museum exhibits on indigenous people and subsistence.
CEED's work in its seven sustainable development program areas can be viewed at www.ceedweb.org. CEED is based in Arcata and supports offices in Ashland, Oregon, and Anchorage, Alaska.
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TOC for Forest & River News, Winter 2005