Nonprofit Directory / Colorado Plateau

Seventh Generation Institute

There are many ways to work toward conservation. The Institute calls our approach "New School" conservation. New School conservation incorporates applied sciences, innovation, strategic collaboration, human behavior and common sense, because each of these individually is “necessary but not sufficient” for successful conservation - so all are needed. Many past conservation efforts missed one of these elements and many present efforts continue to do so, which has led to many less-than-optimal results, frustration or outright failure. The Institute does not participate in the "old school" environmentalism characterized by litigation, polarized discussions, and lack of true collaboration. If old school worked, we wouldn't be still arguing over the same resource management issues that first came up in the 1970s. Certainly we need all the tools in the toolbox. There is a time and place for litigation for example. But the Institute believes that litigation is a significantly overused tool in the conservation field. Litigation and other adversarial techniques have the goal that one side wins and the other loses. The first problem is that there are rarely just two sides - usually, th.

Santa Fe, NM Founded 2007 1% for the Planet

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