ST. CROIX INSTITUTE
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Image Source: Habitat for Humanity Eco-Village - St. Croix Institute™ - conceptual designer, anchor partner and project navigator.

Services

The St. Croix Institute™​ (SCI) is a mission-to-metrics cross-sector consulting firm that provides a wide range of planning, research, facilitation, professional development, and advising services in the realm of sustainable business and community development.  Well known for a ‘think and do’ / uniquely holistic and integrated systems approach to quadruple-bottom-line (4XBL℠) outcomes, SCI believes that businesses, organizations, agencies, communities, and households all play a synergistic role in fostering inter-generational self-sufficiency with ecologically, socially, and economically significant outcomes that lead all of us ‘beyond sustainability.’
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We value, design, and support ‘a holistic systems approach’ to restorative and regenerative business and community models at the intersections of science, nature, culture, economy, and creativity for living in a resilient world. SCI
 services range from ‘green business model strategies, training, and operations’ to ‘green building conceptualization and support’ to ‘Circular Economy Metrics’ to ‘Green House Gas (GHG) Benchmarking, Tracking, & Reporting’ to ‘messaging, media, marketing, and reporting’ to facilitating ‘Public-Private Partnerships’ around ‘locally invested carbon offset’ models … and ‘beyond’ ...

This quadruple-bottom-line (4XBL
℠) approach, grounded in the ‘purpose’ and mission of our clients, takes into account the ecologic, social, economic, and community-based outcomes as essential pillars to sustainable living. Our core areas of practice include: listening, planning, convening, presenting, and messaging, as prelude to broader and deeper client services, such as comprehensive planning, strategic planning, staff training, benchmark metrics, business development support, program implementation, evaluation, documentation, reporting, and ‘re-thinking’.
Holistic Products & Services
  • Holistic systems approach and boutique services for ‘turnkey disruptive projects’ (e.g., St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity - EcoVillage)
  • Synergistic research, analysis, & strategy, grounded in the ‘best available science’ for ‘Going Beyond Sustainability’ - environmentally, socially, economically, & politically
  • Stakeholder / Partnership Program & Policy Strategy, planning, development, & engagement for Tribal (National Indian Carbon Coalition) and non-tribal organizations for climate action, decarbonization, and energy resilience, security, and sovereignty
  • ‘Industrial Karma℠ Dashboards’ to drive internal and external engagement for ‘Going Beyond Sustainability’
  • Creative and holistic innovation in strategic positioning, conceptual design, branding & identity value, marketing & media services
Climate Action / Justice / Decarbonization
  • GHG scope 1, 2, and 3 benchmarking and analysis, combined with energy efficiency and decarbonization mapping for costs/benefit ROI projections
  • Stakeholder / Partnership Program & Policy Strategy, planning, development, & engagement for Tribal (National Indian Carbon Coalition) and non-tribal organizations for climate action, decarbonization, and energy resilience, security, and sovereignty
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) integral to 4XBL℠ and ‘Going Beyond Sustainability’
  • Fundraising & Capital Fund Development for Sustainability & Climate Action (TICO2e™ & LICO2e™)
  • Carbon Offset & Value-Added Co-Benefit procurement aligned with SDGs from local, regional, and Tribal project sources (TICO2e™ & LICO2e™)
Strategic Corporate / Community / Organizational Deliverables
  • Materiality Assessments to identify what corporate, community, and institutional stakeholders and stockholders care about based on SBTi, SDGs, GRI, CDP, SEC, SASB, & all other reporting platforms
  • GHG scope 1, 2, and 3 benchmarking and analysis, combined with energy efficiency and decarbonization mapping for costs/benefit ROI projections
  • Key performance metrics identification, benchmarking, tracking, & strategies for ESG-based decarbonization, ecosystem services, and socio-cultural impacts (e.g. NICC Carbon Offset Co-Benefits in Parallel to UN SDGs);
  • ESG framework development, transparency, and reporting for SBTi, SDGs, GRI, CDP, SEC, SASB, & all other reporting platforms
  • Operational Sustainability integration - combining Sustainability Strategy with Operational Excellence Strategy to create targets and objectives that achieve operational and supply chain efficiency, effectiveness, and cost savings, while improving ESG performance
  • Circularity Design and Supply Chain optimization for the mutual benefit of business and community
  • Industrial Karma℠ Dashboards’ to drive internal and external engagement for ‘Going Beyond Sustainability’ 
  • Curriculum development & multifaceted / multi-modal training for staff &/or stakeholders – from Basic to Cutting-Edge; 
  • Permaculture training, strategy, design, construction, and programming that is integral to corporate, community, and organizational objectives – “Planning, design, and implementation as if we as a species intend to stay”
​The St. Croix Institute™​ & LICO2e™, GBC are committed to the highest quality outcomes for our clients, and to the common good for public and planetary benefit.

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For a condensed version of who we are and what we do, click here.
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Kelly D. Cain, PhD  •  Founder/ Principal  •  [email protected]  •  715.781.6233

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  • Home
    • Megatrends
    • Opportunities & Solutions
    • Value-Added Support
    • Frameworks & Metrics
    • 1-2a. Megatrends
    • 1-2b. Opportunities & Solutions
    • 1-2c. Value-Added
    • 1-2d. Frameworks & Metrics
  • Who We Are
    • Creative Vision
    • Kelly D. Cain, PhD
    • History
  • What We Do
    • 4XBL Metrics
    • Industrial Karma
    • Carbon Negative Performance
    • Locally Invested Carbon Offsets
    • Regionally Invested Carbon Offsets
    • Permaculture
  • Clients & Projects
    • National Indian Carbon Coalition
    • MN Dept of Commerce
  • Contact