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The Mountain Institute empowers communities in the Andes, Appalachians and Himalayas through education, conservation and sustainable development. Since its founding more than 38 years ago, TMI has worked closely with the people who know mountains best – those who actually live there – to help identify and implement solutions to challenges that threaten their livelihoods and the health of their local environments. Mountains matter to all of us, as providers of natural resources such as water, barometers of climate change, and places of beauty and inspiration. Through a dedicated staff based in mountain communities themselves, The Mountain Institute facilitates processes that promote education and capacity building, enabling those communities to take responsibility for the well-being of mountain environments upon which we all depend.

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