BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE

The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Oakland, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy, conservation, and food and farming... The Breakthrough Institute was founded in 2007 by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger. Breakthrough's early work built on Nordhaus and Shellenberger's argument, first articulated in their 2004 essay "The Death of Environmentalism," that 20th-century environmentalism cannot address complex, global, 21st-century environmental challenges like climate change... The Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Also known as: Breakthrough Dialogue, The Breakthrough Institute