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clients
Projects and Ongoing Activities
- For direct sales company, we developed corporate
environmental principles, major short and medium term goals, implementation
strategies, metrics for measuring environmental performance
- For a manufacturer with wholesale/retail distribution,
assessed corporate environmental and social responsibility performance,
including benchmark analysis against peer companies, and tiered
recommendations for improvement
- We created a “sustainability scorecard” tool
that has been used with several companies to evaluate environmental
performance of broad product range, allowing for a flexible approach
to overall product line improvement
- We conducted life cycle assessment of signature
consumer product highlighting improvement opportunities and providing
a streamlined analytical template for product lines throughout
the company
- For a retail services company with a large number
of stores, we assessed construction projects for impacts on indoor
air quality and general life cycle impacts; researched and identified
preferred alternatives We analyzed global warming impacts associated
with multiple variations of a new product to assess the optimal
combination of product and environmental performance
- We created a materials rating tool for fibers
and polymers incorporating critical company values to simplify
evaluation and comparison of alternative materials in product development
- We prepared corporate social responsibility reports
including data gathering and analysis, assessment of major issues,
and preparation of draft reports
- For a client’s manufacturing operations,
we developed an energy efficiency plan and a report to decision-makers
on major issues associated with energy
- For a medium size city, we evaluate proposed development
projects for potential risks to future occupants from contaminated
properties and hazardous materials use/emissions associated with
surrounding industrial uses
- We established criteria and reviewed environmental
and social responsibility attributes of a wide variety of products
and services for consistency with client values
Partial Client List
Private–Aveda, Ben and Jerry’s,
BluSkye, Cartridge World, Kinko’s, Norm Thompson Outfitters,
Patagonia, Timberland, Yolo Colorhouse
Public and nonprofit–City
of Irvine, CA, Santa Barbara Region Economic Community Project, The
Energy Coalition
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Environmental Strategies
for Business, Nonprofits,
and Government.
Michael S. Brown
Eric Wilmanns
850 Cathedral Vista Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93110 |
