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.

Climate change is everyone's business. Climate change is now acknowledged as a global problem and while global solutions and the agreement are long term issues we believe we can and must demonstrate that there is a "middle way" between doing nothing and a total global solution. We will undertake projects and programs which will inform, educate, demonstrate and share pactices that are locally responsible and that encourage local communites to create jobs and stimulate economic benefit while slowly removing the generation of GHG from the economic and social equation. We welcome similar efforts by all who seek to promote the global sustainable low carbon economy.