China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development

- The China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development is a new type of international organization, focused on achieving results to accelerate sustainable development in China, the United States and the world. We create sustaining enterprises using nature as a model - cradle to cradle design - that enable commerce, communities and nature to thrive and grow in harmony. We also provide training to build capacity for sustainable development and target strategic opportunities that are both timely and important. We view the past antagonism between economic development and the natural world as a design problem and not a limitation to economic prosperity, environmental quality or healthy communities.

- The ongoing operations of the Center are jointly managed by two Secretariats of professionals that work as a team. The China Secretariat is the Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21, responsible to the Ministry of Science and Technology. The U.S. Secretariat is the International Sustainable Development Foundation, a 501 ( c ) (3) non-profit organization.