| What We Do
UrbanGreen provides strategy, facilitation, expertise, and education for public and private clients striving to achieve sustainability in their communities. In addition to these skills, we offer the planning and development industry a service that doesn’t currently exist: Integration Management for Sustainable Land Use.
"Urban Green is a renaissance firm with a unique capacity to bridge across a wide range of regulatory, design, finance, political, and environmental professional disciplines. Their ability to tie these disparate skill sets and knowledge into a cohesive and coherent whole is deeply impressive. The value that they consistently generate to our organization is extraordinary. "
~ Ted Harrison, Commonweal Conservancy |
In many assignments we lead industry specialists through a collaborative process to support more sustainable land use. Outputs from this process often include:
- vision statements and principles
- sustainability audits, metrics and benchmarks
- sustainable master plans
- design guidelines, green codes and rating methods
- sustainability action and business plans
We have learned through our experience that achieving sustainable land use requires the involvement of a diverse array of participants - consultants, scientists, specialists, stakeholders, public agencies and in many cases, citizens. Our strategy and facilitation skills allow us to organize and align these parties into a workable, synergistic team while addressing the needs of our clients. We continually see the bigger picture, while recognizing the details of the marketplace, technical issues and political context. Throughout we act as the glue, the translator and the provocateur for complex inter-disciplinary projects.
Our expertise in sustainability, coupled with a passion for teaching, allows us to do more than just facilitate the process. In projects that we lead, or projects where we are the sustainability consultant, we bring to bear our knowledge of what works while advocating for innovative solutions emerging from cutting edge research. We translate the jargon and arcane terms of specialists into a common language that everyone can understand. We synthesize and assimilate emerging ideas into holistic solutions and actionable plans that will continue to add value after the process is complete.
As important as what we do, is how we work. |
