Sustainability Leadership Consulting

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ERS Advisors is in its sixth year of helping the Arizona State University's  School of Sustainability (SOS) cement its global leadership in climate resilience education and thought leadership.  We have produced 20 resilience webinars featuring ASU initiatives and attracted over 10,000 unique participalnts.   ASU uses this increased access to market its professional education certificate courses.  Download a one-page paper on the benefits SOS sees from the SSF webinar programs. 

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As a consultant to a native-managed tribe, ERS Advisors has been working to make Indian reservations more resilient to climate change and power outages. The assignments include developing proposals for federal and state funding for feasibility studies and implementation programs.  We are experts in aligning reservation needs with grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Agriculture, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, totaling several million dollars since starting the support in 2022.   

Publisher Island Press’ mission is to provide the best ideas and information to those seeking to understand and protect the environment. We have produced 30 sustainability Island Press webinars  featuring its authors and Urban Resilience program funded, in part, by the Kresge Foundation. More than 20,000 people have signup for the Island press series.

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Chatmine Technologies is a data mining firm with roots at Boston University. Its webinar on using big data to answer sustainability questions was our highest rated session, attracted 1100 participants and resulted in three new contracts for Chatmine. 

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When Antioch University New England was planning the Center for Climate Preparedness 

and Community Resilience, it turned to us to develop a three-webinar series featuring AUNE expertise in community resilience.  The result was a core marketing base of several thousand interested professionals that launched its educational offerings, research and capacity building solutions.   

 Hurricanes Harvey, Ike, Rita, and Dolly, plus floods in 2015 and 2016, along with wildfires in Texas put the state on the leading edge of disaster preparedness, response and long-term recovery. ERS Advisors teamed up with the Texas General Land Office and the Cadmus Group to produce an educational webinar  about operational considerations in community revitalization.

Project Drawdown is the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming.  ERS Advisors produced a webinar with Paul Hawkin, Founder of Project Drawdown and one of the environmental movement’s leading voices.  Registration topped 2400 for the online event.  

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ERS Advisors is the designer, producer and marketer for a new online sustainability professional education curriculum for the Environmental and Energy Management Institute at George Washington University.  We are developing certificate courses in Electrification, Corporate Resilience and the Global Politics of Resources. Student enrollment has far surpaced expectations for current offerings. 

LightWorks at Arizona State University discovers and invents solutions to society's fuel, electric and social challenges. For the past six years, we have led LightWork's efforts to develop global collaborations to decarbonize industry and prepare society for a new carbon economy.  We have helped ASU feature new low-impact technologies and accelerate investment in the decarbonization innovation pipeline through webinar programs and policy dialogue held in Washington, D.C.. 

The Parliament of the World's Religions, with funding from the Hanley Foundation, commissioned a two-webinar series to attract new congregations to its global Climate Committments Project.  Panelists included Rev. Dr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam, Coordinator of the Sector of “Ecology and Creation” at the Vatican,  discussing Pope Francis’ second encyclical, “On Care for Our Common Home.”   

The National Council for Science and the Environment has turned to us for the past 10 years to enhance participation in its annual science policy conference.  We produce NCSE educational webinars running up to the conferences, execute an email campaign to increase registration and sponsorship, and manage post-conference collaborations to futher NCSE sustainability leadership goals.  

Rayvience turned to ERS Advisors to develop a webinar to market its new solar hot water product.  The webinar attracted over 600 participants and produced a list of prospects and product representatives.  

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