Financing: Cash Grants, Rebates, and Tax Credits
Like any other business endeavor, sustainability initiatives must be supported by viable business cases. Fortunately, numerous financial incentives are available to improve business cases for a range of energy efficiency activities, renewable energy installations, and clean tech research projects among others. TerraLocke identifies financing opportunities based on an organization’s characteristics such as type, geography, and initiative and then manages the process to obtain these funds. TerraLocke also works with organizations to help them modify their sustainability initiative where appropriate in order to maximize these financial incentives.
Sustainable Training
A whole new industry is evolving with new approaches, technologies, acronyms and terminology. We explain this evolving industry in straight forward, relevant and involving training sessions, so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. You'll be ahead of the game by learning how businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations are addressing sustainability and working together to identify new markets. We also work to tailor existing information to your particular organization.
Organization Sustainability Audit
Our approach looks at your organization's operations through an environmental lens to pinpoint potential business opportunities and risks. Through discussions with employees, observations of building operations, and analysis of utility bills, we analyze areas such as Product purchasing habits; Electricity, water, gas, and fuel consumption; Information technology resources; Waste stream composition and quantities; Transportation requirements; Company's integration into a sustainable environment; Engagement of external stakeholders; and others.
We provide a brief questionnaire that establishes the "sustainability I.Q." of the organization and the commuting habits of the employees. The questionnaire should be completed by a representative sample of the organization. A detailed report is generated for each audited area, identifying potential opportunities and risks, and incorporating questionnaire results.
Sustainabiliity Plan Definition
The Sustainability Plan will crystallize financially based short-term and long-term goals, and will:
Utilize a systematic approach
Engage internal and external stakeholders
Employ interdisciplinary techniques
Result in an integrated plan
Utilize a life cycle assessment perspective
Implementation
A solid plan is worthless without solid execution. TerraLocke provides project management and facilitation services to ensure the successful on-time and on-budget implementation of any plan initiative. This implementation includes developing a clients internal capacity to move forward with management of existing and future initiatives.
