The Resource Renewal Institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively. We are an incubator of transformational ideas designed to challenge and change the piecemeal way our resources are currently managed and protected.

RRI releases its report "Recommendations to the Obama Administration for an Improved Columbia River Salmon Recovery Program."

The report describes the politically-driven mismanagement and manipulation of programs to recover endangered salmonid populations and subversion of the Endangered Species Act, with a list of actions requested of the Administration. The report notes that the fish face looming extinction despite federal laws giving salmon survival equal status to the generation of hydropower and numerous court orders to protect the species. Funds generated by the sale of hydroelectricity have been misspent in undermining fish recovery programs amid a quagmire of federal agencies with divided authority. The recommendations were prepared by the Council of Elders, a panel of former government resource managers and scientists with extensive senior policymaking and regulatory experience. More information and additional copies of the report are available by emailing info@rri.org.

June 2009 - Council of Elders Discusses its Report with National Marine Fisheries Service

Feature Article in the April 2009 High Country News

Editorial from the Idaho Statesman
News & Interview in The Oregonian

RRI's Water Heritage Trust announces its 2009 River Warrior Awards

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Green Plans: Working Strategies for a Sustainable Future

Green Plans are working models of sustainability in action. Countries around the world are proving that environmental sustainability and economic vitality are not mutually exclusive. As climate change action plans develop at all government levels, RRI advocates for comprehensiveness, basing sustainability on education and input from all sectors of social and economic life, including the citizenry; for integrated plans based on understanding that natural resources are interrelated; and for transparency in developing and implementing policies.

Excerpt from Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth; 3rd edition (2008)
Despite the perilous state of our planetary environment, from climate change to the energy crisis, comprehensive environmental planning - Green Planning is contributing to a healthier life, a more vital and diverse natural world, the preservation of the resource base of our global economy and future development, and ultimately to our collective security. [...] We have what we need to go forward; we do not need to reinvent the wheel.

Order Green Plans the book by Huey Johnson published by University of Nebraska Press

Other Projects of the Resource Renewal Institute

Water Heritage Trust
Water Heritage Trust strives to ensure a pure and sufficient permanent flow of water in the natural environment for plants, fish, wildlife, and people.

Defense of Place
Defense of Place works to assure that parks, open space, and wildlife refuges stay protected in perpetuity. At NPR.org learn why Wyoming's attorney general is taking on a 2003 Defense of Place case.

Public Trust Alliance
The Public Trust Alliance defends public rights to healthy natural heritage - our Public Trust- now and for generations to come.

Californians for Western Wilderness (CalUWild)
RRI is the fiscal sponsor of CalUWild, an otherwise independent organization, that gives people the information and tools they need to become effective advocates for wilderness and public lands.

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Are Climate Change Plans Comprehensive? Use This Chart to Analyze Your Government's Sustainability Planning.

State of the States & Climate Change

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Listen to RRI President, Huey Johnson, on how the 1929 crash led to the Save the Redwoods League, why Michigan Governor Granholm won't turn wetlands into green jobs, what the Depression can teach us about long-term stewardship of natural heritage, and what makes the real quality of life.

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