Core Values

Quality Environment. We stand for sustaining and improving our natural inheritance – our land, water, climate and ecosystems.

Vibrant Communities. We stand for communities that enhance the health, safety, and quality of life of our diverse population, that create opportunity and promote responsibility, that respect and complement the natural environment, and that care for our shared infrastructure and institutions.

Healthy Economy. We stand for a healthy, growing market economy that yields widely shared prosperity. It is open, competitive, accountable, and transparent, providing great opportunities for success and innovation, while maintaining quality natural resources for future generations.

How will Equinox achieve its mission?

• By building strategic working relationships with key stakeholders throughout the San Diego region
• By translating the best available scientific and economic research into practical solutions and understandable white papers
• By working effectively with the media to get the Center’s message out
• By providing expert resources for decision makers and public discussions
• By developing usable metrics and tracking progress
• By replicating proven successes from other regions
• By remaining firmly objective, nonpartisan and independent
• By making San Diego a model metropolitan region for the USA