The Beacon Institute

From TheBeaconInstitute.org:

Headquartered midway along the Hudson River Estuary in the City of Beacon, Dutchess County, New York, The Beacon Institute is an evolving nexus for new resources, new energy and new ideas about rivers and estuaries around the world.

The Hudson River is an ideal portal for exploration of the interaction between people and nature, via The Beacon Institute’s three-pronged approach focusing on Science & Technology, Education and Policy. With the Hudson as its operational base, and with satellite facilities to the north and the south, the Institute is committed to developing a cadre of scientists, engineers, educators and policy experts whose collaborative work will focus on some of the most important and endangered bodies of water in the world.

Beacon Institute’s first facility at the Denning’s Point campus, the new Center for Environmental Innovation and Education (CEIE), is a model of green design that is reusing a mostly undeveloped and abandoned industrial building from the former Denning’s Point Brick Works. This adaptive reuse of an existing late-nineteenth century brick structure launches a new beginning for historic Denning’s Point State Park.

Westchester Green Link of the Week: The Beacon Institute