Sustainability Facilitation Consulting Services
Helping clients achieve their maximum ecological, social
and economic potential.
One Planet Community's non-profit consulting team of sustainability
facilitation and green building experts works with forward-thinking
real estate developers, municipalities, and organizations
to create Sustainability Action Plans - practical roadmaps
to achieving "true sustainability" in infrastructure
development and sustainable living. Some of these reports
are available as published research.
Background
One Planet Communities in North America is delivered by BioRegional
North America, a registered non-profit and sister organization
of BioRegional in
London, UK. BioRegional has over a decade of experience as
sustainability facilitators, leaders in the implementation
of ground-breaking and award-winning work in eco-housing,
fibres, sustainable forestry, sustainable farming, paper and
recycling. The BedZED eco-neighborhood in London(completed
2002) is BioRegional's most recognized achievement.
The BioRegional North American consulting team draw upon
and contribute to the international expertise of BioRegional's
consulting practice within the One Planet Communities program.
Our consulting practice is based on lessons learned and best
practices from our pioneering work building leading green
developments such as BedZED and developing comprehensive sustainability
strategies for enterprises around the world.
Consulting Services
Our consultants have a broad range of hands-on expertise,
including: green building materials (in particular interior
fit-up and LEED compliance); carbon and ecological footprinting;
community engagement, integrated design, facilitation, asset-mapping
and social marketing skills; facilitation of integrated design
teams; green marketing and retail web strategies; sustainable
business, knowledge management and change management; environmental
law and policy reform; and zero (fossil) energy developments.
We have worked on many of the leading green developments in
North America and are deeply networked with cutting-edge developments
and sustainability initiatives world-wide.
 Sustainability
Action Planning
The One Planet Communities Consulting team uses a holistic
Sustainability Action Plan process to help its partners achieve
advanced sustainability goals and market leadership. Using
the Ten Principles of One Planet Communities, ecological footprinting,
and bioregionalism as a holistic guide to develop concrete
plans for raising the quality of life and sustainability of
new and existing communities, regions, and businesses. Pictured
left: BioRegional North America lead a Sustainability Action
Planning process charrette at Sonoma Mountain Village in California.
One Planet Lifestyles
In combination with our strong green building knowledge base,
we also offer unparalleled expertise in developing and implementing
sustainable lifestyles strategies for communities and businesses.
The relative importance of lifestyle choices compared to the
impact of our buildings and infrastructure is extremely high.
For example, our food consumption alone accounts for around
a quarter of our total ecological footprint. The One Planet
Lifestyles Process compliments a Sustainability Action Plan
with a suite of cost-effective methods to A) increase quality
of life, health, happiness and interaction among residents
or employees and B) to gently persuade residents or employees
to lower their ecological impacts to a One Planet level, and
provide the infrastructure and social programs that make sustainable
behaviours easy, affordable, and practical.
BioRegional North America TeamProfiles.
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"'The most interesting aspect of this project
could be the social engineering... creating a sense
of community and a consensus for living within a smaller
ecological footprint.." - Washington Post
