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Sustainability Planning
If you're a local or state government agency, we can help you:
- craft government sustainability plans—such as climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience—from start to finish, including scoping, design, community engagement, and writing
- integrate climate action and environmental best practices into local government Comprehensive Plans and Master Plans
- design strategies, programs, and projects that yield impactful results
If you're a nonprofit or university, we can help you:
- create organizational sustainability plans that reduce emissions and build resilience
- undertake strategic planning within environmental teams
- develop and vet new programs and projects
How Our Method Stands Out
In our planning and strategy development for universities, local governments, and environmental organizations, we apply four often overlooked elements that help our clients achieve results:
Ensuring Material Impact
Leveraging Psychology
Creating Space for the Unknown
Slowing Down to Do What’s Needed
These elements—or fields of practice—shape both what we bring to the process to help clients craft plans, develop strategies, and design projects, and what we expect to deliver in the products and outcomes of our work together.
Ensuring Material Impact
In the process:
We help you think in terms of your bioregion so that strategies truly serve the place where you are.
We attend to the “ecology” of your team: the capacity, resources, boundaries, and limits that shape your work.
In the outcomes:
We ensure your strategies lead to material outcomes, avoiding the trap of plans that call for more plans.
We help you design strategies that serve everyone in your community and prioritize those most in need.
Leveraging Psychology
In the process:
We’ll help you build relationships and partnerships to enable effective community engagement.
We’ll help you analyze the patterns and mental models beneath successful strategies and frustrating missteps.
We incorporate psychological research to support effective communications.
In the outcomes:
We ensure your work leverages climate psychology to build support among your colleagues and community.
We help you tell a story that community members can connect to and resonate with.
We help your work foster social and emotional resilience, as well as resilient infrastructure.
Creating Space for the Unknown
In the process:
We ask you to consider what must be undone before what must be done.
We help you approach uncertainty with patience rather than rushing to premature solutions.
In the outcomes:
We look for opportunities to close outdated programs or policies before adding new initiatives.
We help you build plans that leave room for real-time adaptation as new circumstances arise after our work together.
Slowing Down to Do What's Needed
In the process:
We’ll examine what is truly needed, so we don’t end up with an aspirational to-do list that you can’t accomplish.
We’ll consider ways to flow around obstacles that arise during implementation.
In the outcomes:
We’ll hold everyone accountable to strategies that can be implemented within your team’s capacity.
We’ll ensure that the strategies we develop together set you up for smooth, effective implementation rather than urgent, overwhelming scrambles.
