Our Services
The Whitman Strategy Group's unique Protect, Promote and Prosper approach brings an economic eye to all aspects of environmental responsibility. That means we go far beyond simply preserving profitability—all the way towards turning your powerful environmental business strategy into a real marketplace advantage.
Whitman Strategy Group's Protect services enable companies to understand their environmental impacts, how the environment affects their business, and how to set meaningful sustainability goals. Protect services include:
- Benchmarking – Compare your organization's environmental performance against your industry peers or other standards and identify areas for improvement.
- Sustainability Planning – Sketch a vision and develop practical strategies for implementing a plan that is both sustainable and profitable.
- Carbon Footprint Analysis – Measure your organization's greenhouse gas emissions and learn how you can take cost-effective action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
- Regulatory Compliance – Our experience at the highest posts of state and federal government gives us a unique perspective – and gives you real solutions for meeting ever-changing environmental mandates.
- Governmental Relations – Navigate through the maze of governmental red-tape, bureaucracy and confusion. Whitman Strategy Group partners are known and respected by regulators, lawmakers and officials at every level and continue to strengthen those relationships through the work we do. Our EPA leadership experience makes us the natural choice for engaging that and other federal agencies, as well as the regional federal offices where so many policies are carried out. And our combined state and federal experience gives us special insight for resolving issues across jurisdictions.
Whitman Strategy Group's Promote services put plans into action to help clients achieve and exceed sustainability goals. Promote services include:
- Energy Efficiency Programs – Reduce energy demand, save money and help provide for a more sustainable future by identifying energy-efficiency improvements and renewable-source energy technologies that are right for your business.
- Environmental Management Systems – Lower costs and reduce consumption of water, land and energy resources by improving your company's environmental management systems. This helps you go beyond compliance in order to start improving performance.
- Implementation Support – Manage and institutionalize the goals to ensure that gains made today will continue in the future. Recognizing that many managers face a myriad of demands, Whitman Strategy Group partners work with company employees at every level to ensure goals are tracked, progress is made and roadblocks are overcome.
- Carbon Trading – Help your organization meet and exceed its environmental mandates while mitigating the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by exploring the carbon trading marketplace. Whitman Strategy Group will investigate and identify opportunities that could work for your company.
- Climate Change Policies, Regulations and Technologies – Climate change has become a critical issue for corporations and how companies manage this issue can drive their business goals, profitability and reputation. Whitman Strategy Group can help you manage this critical issue by responding to both the opportunities and challenges presented by climate change on the state, regional and federal levels. We provide Board-level advice to national and international companies seeking to prepare for a “carbon-constrained” world. We also provide a range of regulatory and advocacy services so that clients are better positioned to manage regulatory developments, shape public policy, and work with federal, regional and state regulators to meet business goals, and retain and enhance competitiveness.
- Green Remediation – Some cleanups are greener than others. Green Remediation encourages companies to consider all environmental effects of a cleanup action and maximize environmental benefits. With Green Remediation, every cleanup is an opportunity to bring about even broader benefits for the environment and society by considering such options as ecological reuse, renewable energy development, air quality and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, water and waste, energy use and efficiency, and long-term stewardship. The Whitman Strategy Group can help companies understand this emerging, “full life-cycle” approach and make it part of an affordable cleanup strategy. Services include:
- Introductory training on concepts and approaches; Building a business case for Green Remediation and identifying potential partners;
- Advising on cost-effective Green Remediation techniques, best management practices and measurement tools;
- Monitoring state and federal regulatory trends and programs, as well as private sector developments and workgroup activities;
- Guiding an effective internal and external communications program that engages key stakeholders; and
- Assisting in all phases of implementation, monitoring and assessment.
Whitman Strategy Group's Prosper services give you a competitive edge by translating sustainability practices into a winning business strategy.
Prosper services include:
- Sustainability Reporting and Communication – Let the world know that your organization has made a commitment to sustainability by producing a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) report and implementing an efficient program of targeted communications to describe that progress to major stakeholders.
- Alternate Energies – Identify opportunities to make use of alternative sources of energy. From photovoltaic energy systems, to wind power, to geothermal power, we help companies maximize incentives available from state and federal government for the installation and development of renewable energy systems.
- Green Product Promotion – Help companies market products and services that contribute to cleaner air, cleaner water and a more livable planet. Meet with regulators to introduce products and work with federal and state officials to develop guidelines, regulations or legislation that would support the growth of green technology products.
- Sustainable Building – Build your company future smart. We can help coordinate your company's efforts on redevelopment, land use and LEED certification. WSG is the primary environmental advisor to a master-planned metropolis being built on the outskirts of Seoul, Korea. Read more about WSG’s role in the development of the sustainable city.
