CU Boulder Center for of the Study of Conflict, Collaboration, and Creative Governance (3CG)
http://3cg.colorado.edu/drupal_3cg/
The Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration and Creative Governance (3CG), housed in the Department of Communication, was formed in response to this need. 3CG strives to bring to light, engage with, and promote dialogue and exchange around new governance structures, collaborative and effective decision making processes, and advanced communication concepts and practices that help people develop creative, just, and mutually beneficial choices. Drawing on several department, university, and community programs, 3CG.
CU Boulder CIRES Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
CIRES researchers explore all aspects of the earth system and search for ways to better understand how natural and human-made disturbances impact our dynamic planet. Our focus on innovation and collaboration has made us a world leader in interdisciplinary research and teaching. We’re committed to communicating our research in ways that help inform decision-makers and the public about how we can best ensure a sustainable future environment.
CU Boulder ATLAS
ATLAS creates interdisciplinary programs that make people more capable learners, more innovative teachers, more creative thinkers, more effective leaders and more engaged global citizens.
CU Boulder RASEI
The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) was launched as a campus initiative in early 2006 to become an international force in solving the energy challenge through research, education and technology commercialization. Based on extensive faculty input, CU determined that a successful initiative must be highly interdisciplinary, integrating the University’s extensive research in renewable and sustainable energy with its strengths in climate and environmental science, behavioral studies, policy analysis, and entrepreneurship. RASEI reflects this integration with a three-pronged approach that emphasized discovery, transformation, and entrepreneurship.
CU Boulder Climate Change Research Section
The CCR section makes extensive use of state-of-the-art coupled climate system models to study the sensitivity and stability of the Earth system to a variety of forcings, including changes of greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar irradiance, volcanic forcing, land characteristics, and land use change.
CSU Environmental Governance Working Group
http://egwg.colostate.edu/
The Environmental Governance Working Group at Colorado State University is a multi-disciplinary community of scholars seeking to advance research on issues of environmental governance and sustainability. We are a joint project of the Department of Political Science and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Our members come from 13 departments across 5 colleges and are linked to a wide range of initiatives at CSU and beyond.
CSU Center for Collaborative Conservation
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/ccc-home/
The Center for Collaborative Conservation is a place where all stakeholders come together to define, discuss, study and act on critical issues affecting the earth’s ecosystems and the people who depend upon them.
University of Denver Conflict Resolution Institute’s Center for Research Practice
http://www.du.edu/con-res/center/index.html
The Center for Research and Practice stands as the premier conflict research center in the Rocky Mountain region. The Center has partnered with community mediation programs throughout Colorado to develop the programs and to track their efficacy. Its annual community conferences bring mediators, scholars, and government leaders to the campus. Through the Center's ongoing research projects, students and faculty alike contribute to the conflict resolution field.
Center for the Study of Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (CSIS), UC Denver
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/research/CenterSustainableUrbanInfrastructure/research/Pages/ResearchMainPage.aspx
There are four unique aspects of the research being conducted at the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems: Systems Approach which integrates across various infrastructures and/or sectors ; Multi-objective taking in to consideration infrastructure performance and its impact on people, prosperity and the planet; Outcomes and metrics driven; Considers people and processes by understanding the policy process and engaging communities and institutions
Regis University Institute of the Common Good
http://www.icgregis.org/
Serves the community at-large by promoting the common good and providing a safe and effective space for community dialogue, communal discernment, and public deliberation.
Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
http://rockymountainclimate.org/
RMCO works to keep the West a special place by reducing climate disruption and its effects
(Colorado Climate Project.)
Sonoran Institute
http://www.sonoraninstitute.org/
The Sonoran Institute inspires and enables community decisions and public policies that respect the land and people of western North America.The nonprofit Sonoran Institute, founded in 1990, works across the rapidly changing West to conserve and restore natural and cultural assets and to promote better management of growth and change. The Institute’s community-based approach emphasizes collaboration, civil dialogue, sound information, local knowledge, practical solutions and big-picture thinking.
Place Matters
http://www.placematters.org/
PlaceMatters believes in informed, equitable, and effective citizen engagement in increasingly complex land use planning situations. We work to ensure that communities and organizations design and implement processes that garner broad public involvement and support and lead to sustainable, livable communities. They are partnering with UCD CSIS.
Ground Work Denver
http://www.groundworkdenver.org
Promote actions that improve health today while stemming the effects of climate change in the future. These include eating locally grown fruits and vegetables and using alternative transportation. Preparing at-risk Denver residents with information on the health impacts of climate change, mitigation of these effects, and emergency preparedness for climate-related disasters.
Keystone Center, Keystone and Denver, CO
http://www.keystone.org/
The Keystone Center seeks to solve our society’s most challenging environmental, energy, and public health problems. We bring together today’s public, private and civic sector leaders to confront these issues and we arm the next generation with the 21st Century intellectual and social skills required to effectively approach the questions they will face.
Colorado Climate Network
The mission of the Network is to support efforts by local governments and allied organizations in Colorado to reduce heat-trapping gases and to adapt to climate change – whether those efforts are styled as climate, sustainability, energy, or adaptation programs.
The Civic Canopy
The Civic Canopy is an inclusive network of partners working together to build stronger neighborhoods, healthier communities, and a more civil society.
http://3cg.colorado.edu/drupal_3cg/
The Center for the Study of Conflict, Collaboration and Creative Governance (3CG), housed in the Department of Communication, was formed in response to this need. 3CG strives to bring to light, engage with, and promote dialogue and exchange around new governance structures, collaborative and effective decision making processes, and advanced communication concepts and practices that help people develop creative, just, and mutually beneficial choices. Drawing on several department, university, and community programs, 3CG.
CU Boulder CIRES Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
CIRES researchers explore all aspects of the earth system and search for ways to better understand how natural and human-made disturbances impact our dynamic planet. Our focus on innovation and collaboration has made us a world leader in interdisciplinary research and teaching. We’re committed to communicating our research in ways that help inform decision-makers and the public about how we can best ensure a sustainable future environment.
CU Boulder ATLAS
ATLAS creates interdisciplinary programs that make people more capable learners, more innovative teachers, more creative thinkers, more effective leaders and more engaged global citizens.
CU Boulder RASEI
The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) was launched as a campus initiative in early 2006 to become an international force in solving the energy challenge through research, education and technology commercialization. Based on extensive faculty input, CU determined that a successful initiative must be highly interdisciplinary, integrating the University’s extensive research in renewable and sustainable energy with its strengths in climate and environmental science, behavioral studies, policy analysis, and entrepreneurship. RASEI reflects this integration with a three-pronged approach that emphasized discovery, transformation, and entrepreneurship.
CU Boulder Climate Change Research Section
The CCR section makes extensive use of state-of-the-art coupled climate system models to study the sensitivity and stability of the Earth system to a variety of forcings, including changes of greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar irradiance, volcanic forcing, land characteristics, and land use change.
CSU Environmental Governance Working Group
http://egwg.colostate.edu/
The Environmental Governance Working Group at Colorado State University is a multi-disciplinary community of scholars seeking to advance research on issues of environmental governance and sustainability. We are a joint project of the Department of Political Science and the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. Our members come from 13 departments across 5 colleges and are linked to a wide range of initiatives at CSU and beyond.
CSU Center for Collaborative Conservation
http://warnercnr.colostate.edu/ccc-home/
The Center for Collaborative Conservation is a place where all stakeholders come together to define, discuss, study and act on critical issues affecting the earth’s ecosystems and the people who depend upon them.
University of Denver Conflict Resolution Institute’s Center for Research Practice
http://www.du.edu/con-res/center/index.html
The Center for Research and Practice stands as the premier conflict research center in the Rocky Mountain region. The Center has partnered with community mediation programs throughout Colorado to develop the programs and to track their efficacy. Its annual community conferences bring mediators, scholars, and government leaders to the campus. Through the Center's ongoing research projects, students and faculty alike contribute to the conflict resolution field.
Center for the Study of Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (CSIS), UC Denver
http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/research/CenterSustainableUrbanInfrastructure/research/Pages/ResearchMainPage.aspx
There are four unique aspects of the research being conducted at the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems: Systems Approach which integrates across various infrastructures and/or sectors ; Multi-objective taking in to consideration infrastructure performance and its impact on people, prosperity and the planet; Outcomes and metrics driven; Considers people and processes by understanding the policy process and engaging communities and institutions
Regis University Institute of the Common Good
http://www.icgregis.org/
Serves the community at-large by promoting the common good and providing a safe and effective space for community dialogue, communal discernment, and public deliberation.
Rocky Mountain Climate Organization
http://rockymountainclimate.org/
RMCO works to keep the West a special place by reducing climate disruption and its effects
(Colorado Climate Project.)
Sonoran Institute
http://www.sonoraninstitute.org/
The Sonoran Institute inspires and enables community decisions and public policies that respect the land and people of western North America.The nonprofit Sonoran Institute, founded in 1990, works across the rapidly changing West to conserve and restore natural and cultural assets and to promote better management of growth and change. The Institute’s community-based approach emphasizes collaboration, civil dialogue, sound information, local knowledge, practical solutions and big-picture thinking.
Place Matters
http://www.placematters.org/
PlaceMatters believes in informed, equitable, and effective citizen engagement in increasingly complex land use planning situations. We work to ensure that communities and organizations design and implement processes that garner broad public involvement and support and lead to sustainable, livable communities. They are partnering with UCD CSIS.
Ground Work Denver
http://www.groundworkdenver.org
Promote actions that improve health today while stemming the effects of climate change in the future. These include eating locally grown fruits and vegetables and using alternative transportation. Preparing at-risk Denver residents with information on the health impacts of climate change, mitigation of these effects, and emergency preparedness for climate-related disasters.
Keystone Center, Keystone and Denver, CO
http://www.keystone.org/
The Keystone Center seeks to solve our society’s most challenging environmental, energy, and public health problems. We bring together today’s public, private and civic sector leaders to confront these issues and we arm the next generation with the 21st Century intellectual and social skills required to effectively approach the questions they will face.
Colorado Climate Network
The mission of the Network is to support efforts by local governments and allied organizations in Colorado to reduce heat-trapping gases and to adapt to climate change – whether those efforts are styled as climate, sustainability, energy, or adaptation programs.
The Civic Canopy
The Civic Canopy is an inclusive network of partners working together to build stronger neighborhoods, healthier communities, and a more civil society.