Consulting Services
Ecosystem Service Projects
Sustainable Solutions uses field based experience, coupled with a unique understanding of ecosystem market opportunities, to help our clients discover, design, and deliver high quality, field verified, ecosystem service projects. Current ecosystem service markets that we service include Carbon, Biodiversity, and Forest Mitigation. In addition, we work with clients to determine their eligability for both existing and emerging ecosystem service markets.
Natural Resource Project Management
Our project managers take any natural resource project from concept to reality. From deciding to plant out a small stream buffer, to large landscape level land purchases, to implementing a carbon offset project, to designing ecosystem service markets, we make green dreams real. Our team works with clients to determine the goals of their project, then builds the appropriate solution from the ground up.
Forest Certification
Forest certifications are based on a series of Standards and Verification procedures coupled with 1st, 2nd, or third party audits that ensure that the management practices happening at the ground level follow the certifying bodies standard. These standards include the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), and The American Tree Farm program. Certified forest products typically recieve a higher premium in the marketplace, resulting in an increased return on investment to the landowner.
Sustainable Solutions can guide clients who own or manage forest land on the path to forest certification.
Training and Education
Sustainable Solutions a range of experience in supplying associations, non profits, businesses, land trusts, and private landowner groups with high quality training and education services. Our customized curriculum provides participants with an interactive learning experience for a range of natural resource based topics.
Conservation Brokerage
Using the latest in ground based assessment technologies, and a keen understanding of regional markets, Sustainable Solutions provides conservation minded-investment clients with premier conservation investment portfolios. Our Conservation investment projects produce reasonable economic and exemplary environmental returns on dollars invested.
Sus·tain·able
adjective
1 : capable of being sustained
2 a : of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the resource is not depleted or permanently damaged
<sustainable techniques>
<sustainable agriculture>
<sustainable forestry>
b : of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods
<sustainable society>
So·lu·tion
noun
1 a : an action or process of solving a problem