Ecosystems Restoration

Local Organizations | National Resources | Journals & Publications | Conferences

Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Soil

As a member of E4S Network once said, "There is money in dirt". Cleaning up our first industrial revolution is an industry in our region and in many others. How do we capture the triple bottom line benefits of restoring our environment, improving our quality of life and create new businesses and jobs?

• Northeast Ohio was recognized as the world’s leader in developing technologies and creating jobs in the restoration economy by embracing water, air, soil and ecosystem rejuvenation. See more of the E4S Vision.
• Non-profit, government and academic resources are listed here. Find companies to help your business implement a ecosystem restoration project on the Ecosystem Restoration pages of the E4S Sustainable B2B Directory.

Local Organizations:

The The Cuyahoga Valley Initiative seeks to influence development patterns, construction practices and industrial processes for the next generation using a sustainable development approach based on the integration of economic, social and ecological systems.

National/International Resources:

The Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International is a non-profit organization of individuals and organizations who are actively engaged in ecologically-sensitive repair and management of ecosystems through an unusually broad array of experience, knowledge sets and cultural perspectives.

Journals & Publications:

Ecological Restoration is a quarterly publication that features the technical and biological aspects of restoring landscapes, as well as emerging professional issues, the role of education, evolving theories of post-modern humans and their environment, land-use policy, the science of collaboration, and more.

Restoration Ecology fosters the exchange of ideas among the many disciplines involved in the process of ecological restoration.

Conferences:

The National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration is a forum for physical, biological, and social scientists, engineers, resource managers, planners and policy-makers to share their knowledge and research results concerning ecosystem restoration throughout the United States.
April 23-27, 2007 - Kansas City, Missouri

If you attended a food focused conference that was valuable to you, send us the link and we will post it here for others to attend next year.