Environment

Environmental clients, projects, and volunteer work include:

• Planning and implementing the Northeast Business Climate Collaborative, a World Resources Institute project bringing together service and retail companies in the Northeastern U.S. to understand climate issues, greenhouse gas inventories, and how to reduce emissions.
• Assisted the Global Greengrants Fund with developing a definition of social entrepreneurship, applying that definition to its grantees, and developing new tools and resources for these people and organizations to further Greengrants’ goal of assisting people working to meet the broadest needs of society and environment in developing countries.
• Created and delivered half day workshops to office based organizations demonstrating how they and their constituents can play a role in combating climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Workshops were based on Working 9 to 5 on Climate Change, a World Resources Institute publication.
• Researched the state of natural resources in several national parks for the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) State of the Parks program. Applied a scientific methodology and ratings system to assess resources including air quality, water quality, threatened and endangered species, invasive species, and other measures, at Bryce Canyon, Zion, Canyonlands, and Big Bend National Parks.
• Researched, wrote, and assisted with planning of climatebiz.com, addressing climate change issues for a corporate audience, for Business for Social Responsibility and the Green Business Network.
• Wrote a series of white papers for Business for Social Responsibility for a corporate audience on energy efficiency, renewable energy, green product design, and sustainable business practices.

Additional environmental work is volunteer:

• Colorado Wild: Serving on the Board of Directors, and past president, of this statewide public lands advocacy organization. Colorado Wild works throughout the forested high country of the Southern Rocky Mountains to protect and restore the habitat of native plants and animals. Additional volunteer duties include working with board and staff on policy development, grant writing, and other fundraising efforts.
• Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project: Reviewer of SREP’s report, the State of the Southern Rockies Ecosystem. SREP seeks to identify, protect and restore areas critical to the maintenance of biological diversity and ecological richness in the Southern Rockies bioregion.
• The Greenhouse Network: Serving with the Greenhouse Network’s National Volunteer Speakers Network, which includes over 150 citizens across the US available to speak about global warming, climate change policy and the path to a clean energy future.

Reports, presentations, and websites that Evergreen Consulting Associates has written, delivered, or assisted with include:

• The State of the Parks report on the Natural Resources of Bryce Canyon National Park
• The State of the Parks report on the Natural Resources of Zion National Park
• What is a Social Entrepreneur? Report for the Global Greengrants Fund
• Working 9 to 5 on Climate Change: workshop slides - This presentation has been delivered to several audiences in Washington DC and Boston