Tellus Institute

The Tellus Institute is a non-profit research and policy organization based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its mission is to advance the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and humane global civilization. The Tellus Institute was founded in 1976 by Paul Raskin, Richard Rosen, Stephen Bernow, John Stutz, and David Nichols for the purpose of research on resource and environmental strategies. Dr. Paul Raskin is the President of the Institute. Initially called the Energy Systems Research Group (ESRG), the Institute adopted its current name in 1990.

History

Since 1976, Tellus has conducted over 3,500 resource management and environmental strategy projects throughout the world. The Institute is well known in the environmental strategies domain for its many studies on state and municipality recycling programs, including its 1992 Packaging study, the 2008 Assessment of Options for Massachusetts' Solid Waste Master Plan, and the Preliminary Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Bottle Bills study done for the US EPA.