The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies is pleased to announce the formation of its newly chartered Center for Environmental Economics & Ethics (CEEE).  The CEEE is under the direction of James Tate, Ph.D., a recognized public policy scientist who most recently served as Science Advisor to the Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior.
The CEEE is dedicated to understanding social and ecological networks of relationships among organisms, including mankind, and interpreting these relationships through environmental economics. As one of its inaugural activities, the CEEE will host a workshop in conjunction with the National Council for Science and the Environment conference on The New Green Economy in Washington, DC in January, 2010.

 The workshop, entitled “Alternatives to Neoclassical Economics for Business and National Security” will be held at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies from 9-5 on January 20.  During this workshop participants will explore the positions of conventional economists and ecologists when considering natural resource public policy, and be exposed to alternative concepts including the incorporation of sustainability, biodiversity and valuation into human economic debate. Preregistration is required.  For more information about the conference and to register for the workshop, visit www.ncseonline.org.