Center for Ecological Culture

We facilitate Sustainability Education, Research and Ecological Design to support the emergence of sustainable culture in Northeast Ohio

Dynamics Ecological Design, Inc. 1999

The Center for Ecological Culture, Inc. (CEC) is an evolutionary learning organization

where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire:

Where new patterns of thinking are nurtured;
Where collective aspiration is set free;
Where people are continually learning to see the whole together

The CEC is committed to creating a culture of shared inquiry and innovation, promoting collaborative learning and the application of new information on a continuous basis, thereby empowering its members, organizational partners and program participants towards a collective vision of regional and global sustainability.

The CEC is:

Guided by an advisory board,
Managed by an organizational leadership team, consisting of employees and volunteers, and
Run by engaged individual members and organizational partners who are organized into cooperative inquiry groups and/or project teams.
The CEC is also organized into three program areas, defined according to each of the three organizational functions described in the general mission statement. These are the:

Sustainability Education Program;
Ecological Design Program; and
Research Program.

The three program areas address complementary functions (or system components) which are served on a cross-disciplinary basis within the context of the CEC as an overall organizational system, as well as within the context of each project sponsored or undertaken by the CEC.