PSU's sustainability center takes on new name
By Christina Williams, Sustainable Business Oregon
Sustainable Business Oregon
Portland State University announced Monday it is renaming its Center for Sustainable Processes and Practices. The center will now be called the Institute for Sustainable Solutions.
The new name comes with a new director, Robert Costanza, who joined PSU this month. Costanza comes to Portland from the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont.
"Portland State University has a unique opportunity to become a powerful catalyst, model, and engine of positive and lasting change; a driving force that can help lead society by design to a sustainable and desirable future," said Costanza in a news release.
The institute will also become the new home of the journal Solutions, which Costanza co-founded with Paul Hawken, David Orr and John Todd.
PSU's sustainability center was first established in 2006 and received a boost in 2008 when the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation provided a 10-year, $25 million challenge grant to fund the center's operations.
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