IITE is in the process of getting incorporated as a charity in the UK. However, as UK legislation goes, the word “Institute” is reserved for organisations that are already fully operating as research institutes. We are not at this stage, yet. To move forward, we therefore decided to rename ourselves from “International Institute for Theoretical Ecology” to “International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology”. Once we satisfy the legal requirements, we plan to change it back to to “Institute”. For the time being, “Initiative” is actually the more accurate term. So why not…