| The National Center for
Sustainable Development (NCSD), a national 501 C
3 not for profit corporation was granted its status
in 2001 and reaffirmed as a public charity in 2006.
The mission is to pursue through demonstration projects
- the economic benefits that accrue to local communities
once positive environmental land use practices are
in place that ensure standards of human health and
safety. NCSD, working through its supporting organization,
helped local communities and state governments to
achieve community renewal and job creation while
at the same time directly and effectively confronting
environmentally contaminated sites that blocked
the path to renewal and economic benefit. Working
with Federal and state regulators, sites previously
deemed too complicated and costly to mitigate were
, through example, shown to have a solution; sometime
a relatively simple and cost effective solution.
With the same approach through demonstration projects,
the Board of Trustees has as of September 2009 approved
augmenting NCSD's mission to include our most important
global public policy issue - climate change. |
