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.

​​For a condensed version of who we are and what we do, click here.