Align

In the context of your market, stakeholder expectations, and organizational values—assessing where your sustainability program is, envisioning where you want it to be, and developing an efficient way to get there.  Alignment services include:

• Conducting current state assessments
• Establishing priority areas, goals, performance indicators
• Creating strategies, roadmaps, action plans

Adapt

Developing, implementing, and enhancing sustainability policies, programs, projects, and data collection tools to meet your desired goals and that are adaptable to evolving sustainability practices and technologies. These activities help your organization capitalize on opportunities and reduce the environmental impacts and costs associated with day-to-day operations. Adaptation services include:

• Identifying, prioritizing, and implementing improvements to how your organization uses resources (e.g., energy, water, buildings, information technology systems, buildings, commuting and business travel) and generates by-products (greenhouse gas emissions/GHGs, recycling and waste streams)
• Developing or enhancing policies, guidance, governance, and data collection tools
• Measuring performance and documenting successes, return on investment, best practices, and lessons learned

Amplify

Sharing and exchanging information about your sustainability performance to build internal capacity, inspire stakeholder engagement, and comply with disclosure or reporting requirements. Amplification services include:

• Designing and deploying employee engagement and training strategies, including Earth Day activities and other green events
• Developing and implementing external stakeholder outreach strategies
• Creating and distributing communication products and tools (e.g., GHG reporting, Global Reporting Initiative/GRI reports, Carbon Disclosure Project/CDP survey responses, infographics, videos, sustainability messaging for rating programs, award applications, grants and proposals)