"Now and then in my dreams, I see a place where one might initiate and publicize programs to give the environmental movement a positive constructive philosophy that would complement the present defensive attitude of environmental conservation and protections."

(Rene Dubos)

About The Center

The Rene Dubos Center for Human Environments, Inc. is a non-profit education and research organization focused on the social and humanistic aspects of environmental problems.  Its program emerged early in 1975 from a collaboration between Rene Dubos, Professor Emeritus of The Rockefeller  University, and William and Ruth Eblen of Total Education in the Total Environment, Inc. (T.E.T.E.)  An environmental education organization established in 1964, T.E.T.E. pioneered integrative approaches for environmental problem-solving for formal and nonformal education at the local, state, national and international levels.