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APPENDIX D: SUSTAINABILITY ORGANIZATIONS <br /> Appendix D: Sustainability Organizations <br /> This appendix contains a brief overview of other global and national organizations that <br /> support energy efficiency and promote sustainability. <br /> Centro Mario Molina <br /> "The Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies on Energy and the Environment is an <br /> independent non-profit association, created in 2004 with the objective of giving continuity and <br /> consolidating in Mexico the activities that Professor Mario Molina has carried out throughout his <br /> life. Its main purpose is to find practical, realistic and in-depth solutions to challenges related to <br /> environmental protection, the use of energy and the prevention of climate change, fostering <br /> sustainable development. <br /> "The Center strives to generate consensus amongst all segments of society, thus enabling <br /> the implementation of both technically and economically feasible measures that contribute to <br /> social well-being. This implies actions which transcend knowledge-making and involves engaging <br /> decision makers to ensure that the Center's proposals and research turn into real-life solutions." <br /> (Sustainable, 2017). <br /> Fundacion Corona <br /> "Over its fifty years of operation in Colombia, Corona Foundation has always focused on <br /> strengthening capacities to drive social development,quality of life,and equity. <br /> "With the conviction that values, ethics, and commitment should be the foundation's <br /> modus operandi, the Echavarria Olozaga family determined that its main objective would be to <br /> integrate itself with the community. The foundation would come to distinguish itself for four <br /> 0 <br /> Page 54 UNIVERSITYof ST.THOMAS <br /> EN-ERGYCITY <br /> Opus College of Business <br />