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Founded in 1969, InterEnvironment Institute is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute based in Sacramento, California's capital. Until February 2010, we were known as the California Institute of Public Affairs (CIPA), and many references to CIPA remain on this Web site. CIPA will remain a program of IE.

 

Our main focus is on natural resources and the environment, both internationally and in California. IE does problem-solving research, provides advice, and produces online and print publications. We convene groups of leaders and experts to search for, design, and implement solutions to public problems.  

 

Internationally, IE has been a pioneer in explaining and promoting  the concept of sustainability, defined as improving the quality of human life while living within the carrying capacity of supporting ecosystems. Applying this concept requires a systematic, long-range view of public affairs that combines political, social, cultural, and economic, as well as ecological concerns. Thus, the "Inter" in InterEnvironment stands for interconnections, as well as international.

 

Most of our international work is done with or through IUCN, the International   Union for Conservation of Nature, of which we have been a member since 1980. IUCN activities for which InterEnvironment Institute currently provides the secretariat are listed at right. See also "Our IUCN connection."  

 

Although we are not an academic institute, we try to build bridges between the practical and academic worlds, work with scholars in many institutions of higher education, and have been affiliated with Claremont Graduate University since 1972.

 

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