 Among their research projects are the Vermont Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and Natural Capital Project.The Gund Institute was founded by Robert Costanza in 1991 as the Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Maryland.In 2002, it was moved to the UVM's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and renamed the Gund Institute, after its major benefactors, the Gund family of Cleveland, Ohio.