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Welcome to the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics

At the Gund Institute, we are developing, testing, and implementing innovative methods and models that reflect the need to integrate the social, built, natural, and human capital components of our world. Read more >>>

Upcoming Events

The Oldest Environmental Problem Must and Can Be Solved
Date: February 8th, 2010

Speaker: Wes Jackson
National Geographic LIVE! Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future
Date: February 9th, 2010

Understanding 350
Date: February 9th, 2010

Speaker: Richard Wolfson

Please see our Events page for more information on both upcoming and previously held events.


This is our work. To shift the world's economies away from their present emphasis on infinite economic growth and toward a focus on sustainable human wellbeing. To forge fresh and visionary approaches to the economic challenges and opportunities that await us in the 21st century. To blur traditional academic boundaries and bring together experts, teachers, students, and stakeholders from all disciplines in order to pioneer vital new developmental tools and ideas. To guide the way to true global economic sustainability through teaching, research, design, and the practical application of those economic solutions that will generate natural capital even as they create human profit.

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