past projects
Developed corporate environmental strategy incorporating sustainability principles, major short and medium term goals, implementations strategies, and metrics for measuring environmental performance.
Engaged over long-term to assess corporate environmental and social performance, benchmark analysis against peer companies, create tiered recommendations for improvement.
Create “sustainability scorecard” tool to evaluate environmental performance of broad product range, allowing flexible approach to overall product line improvement.
Conducted life cycle assessment of signature product highlighting improvement opportunities and providing a streamlined analytical template for product lines throughout the company.
Assessed residential and retail construction projects for impacts on indoor air quality and general life cycle impacts; researched and identified preferred alternatives
Analyzed global warming impacts associated with multiple variations of a new product to assess the optimal combination of product and environmental performance.
Created a materials rating tool for fibers and polymers incorporating critical company values to simplify evaluation and comparison of alternative materials in product development.
Prepared corporate social responsibility reports including data gathering and analysis, assessment of major issues, and preparation of draft reports.
Developed energy efficiency plan and a report to decision-makers on major issues associated with energy.
Compared sustainability tools for use in assessing the environmental performance attributes of product in development.
Reviewed environmental and social responsibility attributes of a wide variety of products and services for consistency with client values.
We are always pleased to work with Mike and Eric.
– Andrea Asch,
Manager of Natural Resources, Ben & Jerry’s
...Not only is their experience varied and broad, they know business processes more intimately than most consultants...
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– Jill Dumain,
Environmental Analysis Director for Patagonia
...BWE has the unique combination of deep technical expertise and strong communication skills...
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– Vanessa Margolis,
Nike Sustainability
...knowledgeable and sensitive about issues but pragmatic in their approach to helping Aveda solve problems, make changes and move sustainability forward ...
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Chuck Bennett,
Vice President of Earth & Community Care for Aveda
...we wanted to take a stance on pertinent global environmental issues and lay out relevant stretch goals for the corporation. Michael and Eric have the expertise to make that happen...
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David Cowen,
Closed Loop, LLC