Our Approach

Collaborative: The TerraLocke team believes that sustainability initiatives don't take place in isolation, but within the overall environment of your organization. This environment sometimes also includes local government agencies, local businesses and non-profits. Our experience has shown us that sustainability plans can draw creative solutions from these other entities! By working with both your internal and external stakeholders we together can develop the smartest and most effective sustainability solution for your organization.

Analytical: It's all about the bottom line, isn't it? Many of our team members have direct business experience and advanced degrees in business administration. They know how to develop the strongest business case for your sustainability efforts.

Efficient: All our work is done with an eye towards saving time and saving effort, so you can go take a hike, ride a bike or rock climb (some of our team's favorites) and enjoy the environment you are helping to protect.

Creative: Some sustainability solutions are pretty straightforward and don't need much "out of the box" thinking. Others, especially comprehensive solutions for entire organizations, need creative minds, minds willing to consider new approaches and new combinations of approaches. We specialize in making the connections - with ideas, people, and financing - so that creative approachs can happen every day.

Cooperative: And speaking of crafting creative solutions, whatever effort your organization is engaged in, when you work with TerraLocke you tap into the expertise of our entire team. We love to work together, and your point of contact in TerraLocke is always "picking the brains" of other team members to help you develop the best solution for your organization.

A SPECIAL WORD TO OUR NON-PROFIT FRIENDS: Don't let our strongly business-based approaches turn you away! A business-based approach to your sustainability efforts means you'll have to write fewer grant proposals, and conduct fewer direct mail campaigns! And your current funders will be thrilled that you are using their support so efficiently. Besides, lots of our team members have NGO experience. And did we say anything about nice?

TerraLocke's team of professionals bring years of business, government, and non-governmental organization (NGO) experience to your sustainability project.

We bring together subject matter expertise in the following areas

• Program evaluation, design, and development
• Greenhouse gas inventories
• Strategic planning
• Buildings, energy, and renewable energy
• Identifying and acquiring funding, including grantwriting
• Training and curriculum development
• Marketing, messaging, and branding
• Sustainability and green certifications
• Database driven application design and implementation

Peter Locke, MBA, LEED AP, GHG IQ, RESNET Certified Energy Rater
Peter is a Co-founder and Managing Director of TerraLocke Sustainability Consultants. In addition to his work on various business, non-profit, and public sector sustainability focused projects, Peter is on the Board of Directors of Local First Chicago, he Chairs the Chicago Sustainable Business Alliance's (CSBA) Public Policy Group and acts at the CSBA's Public Policy liaison to the City of Chicago. In this role he participates on three City of Chicago task forces focused on setting standards for and incenting Green Businesses and retrofitting commercial properties. Peter also chairs the Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project's Green School's committee and is a member of the Chicago Public School's Environmental Action Plan task force, and participates in two local Chicago Public School green teams. Peter regularly speaks on a range of sustainability topics including presentations for the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Chicago Center for Green Technology, Loyola University's Continuum, Green Festival, and Columbia College.

Prior to founding TerraLocke, Peter spent 15 years in the private sector primarily as a business consultant. He spent 7.5 years working with companies to implement organization-wide programs with a focus on information systems. His engagements during this period covered organization transformation; inter-departmental decision making and coordination; process and procedure definition and implementation; 3rd party negotiation and coordination; and education and communication. Peter holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance from the University of Rochester in Rochester NY and a BA in Economics from Clark University in Worcester MA.

D. John Mascarenhas, MBA, GHG IQ
John guides established businesses and entrepreneurs as a sustainability and business growth consultant. In addition to consulting to corporations and ventures, he had operating roles on the founding teams of three successful start-up ventures. John works closely with clients to create and define sustainable business strategy, prioritize goals and initiatives, and develop clear implementation plans.

John has worked exclusively in the evolving field of Sustainable Business since April 2007, including being the second Director of the non-profit Chicago Sustainable Business Alliance. There, he supported “green and greening” members, and developed programs to meet the needs of mid-size and larger Chicago businesses. John is currently an independent consultant, working with Ambassador Organics and several other sustainable ventures.

In June 2009, he completed a Certificate in Sustainable Management from the Presidio School of Management. At Presidio, John learned how to make the conceptual and quantitative business case for sustainability, and how to apply leading frameworks to plan and implement profitable sustainable practices.

John’s consulting experience includes managing a post-merger strategy and execution project for a $1.5 billion mobile telecom infrastructure company. John’s prior operating roles include strategy, partnership development, business development, and marketing strategy with FullAudio (digital music service, later sold to AOL), Second Cycle (web-based process improvement software) and Digital Senseworks (design and integration of smart home systems). Previous to that, he had eight years of increasing responsibilities in commercial real estate finance.

John earned an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School, and a BA in Economics from Bucknell University. He is becoming certified in GHG inventory quantification and LEED. He is a member of ISSP, the International Society of Sustainability Professionals, Net Impact, and the Chicago Sustainable Business Alliance.

 Reed Evans, MSc Sustainability, MAT, GHG IQ
Reed has over a decade of experience as a Sustainability and Marketing Communications Consultant. She is currently Communications Manager for Planet under Pressure 2012, London and Science Policy Manager for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme in Stockholm. She also serves as a Quality Control Consultant for the Global Reporting Initiative Certified Training Program. In 2010 - 2011, Reed completed her MS in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden (ranked #3 in Europe and #1 in Sweden for sustainability engineering programs). Project work included strategic sustainability management planning for Kockum AB's CarboCAT® production unit (ThyssenKrupp) in Sweden and for Ampelmann GmbH in Berlin. In 2009, she provided consulting services for Andersonville Development Corporation on eco-Andersonville's Sustainable Business Certification Program and Green Business Incentive Program. In 2007 - 2008, Reed provided market research, marketing, and business development services for the German renewable energy company Vaillant GmbH ($3B sales, 2007) on its entry into the U.S. market with the subsidiary company Vaillant Solar Systems. Other projects include development of marketing strategy for the Delta Institute Green Purchasing Consortium and stakeholder engagement towards creation of a sustainable mining program proposal for the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum in Quito, Ecuador with Bob Pojasek and Associates. Her Master's work focused on strategic sustainability management planning for branded design companies with focus on product and company innovation approaches. As Principal of Reed Evans Productions in California, she provided international and domestic marketing communications and training project management for clients including Hewlett-Packard, Sybase, Adobe, and the Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education. She served on the Steering Committee of the Women In Business Roundtable in Oakland, CA and was a contributing editor for the WIBR section of the Oakland Business Review. She is a member of Net Impact and serves on eco-Andersonville’s Green Building Incentive Fund Advisory Committee.

Rachel E. Locke, PhD.
Rachel brings to TerraLocke over 25 years of experience in first-tier academic institutions, as a project manager, grant writer, basic scientist and organizer of educational and public outreach programs. She also has been deeply involved in many community organizations in areas where she has lived. For TerraLocke, Rachel's manages the Grow Native! project.

Rachel received her BA in Economics with Honors from Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA and her PhD in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. Always interested in expanding her education, she reads widely on strategic planning, business planning, fundraising, marketing, grant writing, organizational development, problem solving, writing, and, although not recently, website development.

In Missouri, Rachel conducted basis neuroscience research at Washington University, and spent three summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. Upon completing her PhD, she worked to develop plans for a multi-departmental “Neuroscience Institute” at Washington University, and organized major public education events about brain research. She was appointed by former Missouri governor Mel Carnahan to the Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commission; she served on the "IMPAC' task force, charged with devising new statewide regulations for auto emissions inspection and maintenance in Missouri; she served on the Board of Directors of the Missouri Coalition for the Environment, and worked for the Sierra Club of Missouri.

Recently, Rachel has focused managing grant-funded projects, and on writing grants to support reseach and education at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She has also worked with the New York University Medical Center Comprehensive Epilepsy Center and is a grant writing resource for the Columbia University Medical Center CTSA. She recently conducted a grant writing workshop for the Young Researchers' Transatlantic Academy, attended by 30 PhD students from Penn, Vanderbilt, Rutgers and the University of Aachen, Germany. After procuring NIH funding, Rachel oversaw the development of a new, comprehensive graduate curriculum in neurobiology of disease for the UPenn Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences. She is now working on a graduate-level textbook on neurobiology of disease with Dr. Marc Dichter, Director of the Penn Institute of Neurological Sciences. Outside of work, she chaired the Leadership Development Committee at her 750+ member church, conducting leadership trainings and developing mentoring programs.

Outside of the US, Rachel consults on fundraising for the Monteverde Institute in Monteverde, Costa Rica; and maintains a grant writing consulting agreement with the Monteverde Friends School.

 Sarah Stewart
Sarah has spent the last 17 years in Utilities and Manufacturing focusing on Asset Management Systems that streamline both Work Management and Supply Chain processes. Her unique understanding of functional requirements and her ability to translate them into technical verbiage ensure her customers' needs are met. She consults independently with Accenture and IBM primarily specializing in Maximo. Her recent clients include Duke Energy, NIPSCO, Nisource, IPSCO Steel (now SSAB), Anchorage School District, and Trinity University. While serving as a Signal Officer in the United States Army in Germany and the US she learned the importance of Asset Management Systems and has translated that knowledge into the current sustainability climate. She holds a BS degree in Biology from Dickinson College.

Ronda Locke
Ronda has 17 years of product and brand management experience and has managed lines exceeding $120 million in sales. She has developed and launched numerous new product lines using integrated campaigns, including print, television, public relations, promotions and grass-roots programs. In addition she has experience pulling together businesses, politicians, local governments, and non-governmental organizations for a single community cause. Recently she chaired a committee for a local playground renovation, raising the necessary $550,000 from grants, local and state politicians, the City of Chicago's Park District, and numerous community fundraisers. Ronda continues to be a community activist volunteering for the Chicago Park District in numerous roles, formerly a board member of the East Village Association and participating in the Chicago Police Departments Peer Jury program. Ronda holds a BA from Bowling Green State University and attended Baldwin Wallace's MBA program.

Ingo Soeding, MBA
Ingo is an independent partner at TerraLocke Sustainability Consultants. He brings 15 years of strategic planning, research & analysis, product innovation, marketing, learning and change management experience working at leading global companies in the technology and automotive industries. His personal and professional expertise in connecting people and ideas from diverse backgrounds, cultures and disciplines is helping him to create new insights and strategies for sustainability transformation.

Ingo is currently engaged in several community education and startup initiatives, including working to develop and implement TheEcoExchange learning and collaboration platform and supporting the transportation component of the Edgewater Community Council Environmental Plan 2020. As part of these projects and others, he is developing a strategic framework to help accelerate broad understanding and adoption of sustainability policies, practices and technologies and the growth of new communities and markets. He also serves as Vice President of Professional Development for Chicago's Professional Chapter of Net Impact, an international organization dedicated to using business to create positive change in the world.

Ingo holds an MBA in Marketing and International Business from the University of Michigan: Ross School of Business and a BA in Organizational Communication from Loyola University Chicago. He lives in the Margate Park (Uptown) neighborhood of Chicago with his wife Mary and their son, Finn.

Lindsey Elton
Lindsey brings nearly a decade's worth of marketing and communications experience to TerraLocke. She has helped private and not-for-profit clients with website design, re-launch and management efforts; social media and multi-media marketing campaigns; membership management; rebranding initiatives; fundraising programs; and public relations. Lindsey is also RESNET certified and has worked on the City of Chicago’s HEET Weatherization Program which provides weatherization improvements to lower-income homes throughout the city of Chicago.

In addition to her TerraLocke work, Lindsey is actively involved in the Chicago sustainability community including her involvement with multiple Green Festival events, working on the Chicago Green Homes Program, and volunteering at the Chicago Center for Green Technology. She is a native of southeast Michigan and graduated from Michigan State University.