Organization Name:

I. Contact Information

Contact Name	Honorato Teissier Fuentes
Title	Coordinator
Department Name	General Coordination
Department Phone Number	(84) 14-73-00
Contact Phone	(84) 16-24-52
Fax	(84) 14-99-57
E-mail	cevespad@alpha1.sal.uadec.mx
Mailing Address	Venustiano Carranza y González Lobo Colonia República C.P. 25280 Saltillo, Coahuila México
Web Site Address	http://alpha1.sal.uadec.mx/

II. Description of Organization

Organization, Mission, and Goals:

Description: A university-based society dedicated to stimulating protection of the environment and natural resources for a sustainable development.

Mission: To serve as the interface between the university, the economy, the environment and society in the search for sustainable development.

Goals: Preservation of systems and natural resources for future generations based on equity, justice, and community development.

Environmental Media:

III. Organization's Involvement in U.S.-Mexican Border Environment

Current Border Environment Projects and Activities:

Geohydrological studies. Waste management systems. Sustainable rural tourism. Controlling urban growth. Systemic environmental impact models. Studies of environmental education and sustainability in families. Training and environmental education.

Past Border Environment Projects and Activities:

We are new, so we have made only limited local progress. We will add to this section later as our projects progress.

Future Border Environment Projects and Activities:

Described in the first section.

IV. Data Sets not on the Internet:

V. Additional Information:

We are utilizing new forms of horizontal organization, with interdisciplinary involvement, intensive use of networks, and innovative policies like virtuality and no material growth. In this way we use learning by experience and systemic thinking as concrete ways of working.