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▪ Accelerate sustainability initiatives
▪ Mitigate environmental challenges
▪ Engage key stakeholders
▪ Evaluate energy and environmental alternatives
▪ Understand a product’s environmental impact throughout the value chain
▪ Reduce costs through water, waste, and energy efficiency
▪ Measure and reduce corporate and product environmental footprints
▪ Develop and implement meaningful sustainability goals and programs
▪ Take advantage of sustainability trends
▪ Boost employee engagement, recruitment, and retention
▪ Enhance your brand image
▪ Validate marketing collateral for greener products and claims
▪ Think tank to help you understand and position for emerging sustainability issues
Our approach to environmental sustainability strategies carries with it a strong increase in brand value. Aspire Sustainability helps leverage this benefit through credible, transparent communications and robust, expert results that stand up to scrutiny while differentiating your company and products.
Aspire Sustainability blends big-picture thinking, technical expertise, and decades of diverse, global industry experience to deliver strategic, transparent, and credible sustainability solutions. Specializing in science-based strategy development & integration, product development & innovation, and business value creation; we are your expert partners on your sustainability journey.
Aspire SustainabilityPEOPLE | PLANET | PROFIT | PURPOSE
Product Sustainability
Our extensive expertise in product life cycle assessment (LCA) can help you understand the benefits and impacts of your products, technologies, and services. Robust and credible environmental insights can inform your sustainability strategy, enhance design, support green marketing, improve your competitive position, reduce costs and risks, and improved relationships across your value chain.
Integrated Sustainability Strategies and Solutions
Organizational Success
We focus on creating business value to help your business grow in a sustainable way. We help you understand the landscape of sustainability relative to your business and work with you to develop meaningful strategies to advance your company and align with emerging trends such as circular economy, UN Sustainable Development Goals, or other initiatives important to your company.
Communications
Credible, consistent, and transparent communications are essential to building, sharing, and integrating your sustainability efforts. Educating, empowering, and inspiring your employees and stakeholders can lead to amazing results throughout the value chain and ensure sustainable success.
Getting Started
We understand that the world of sustainability is complex and evolving. We are here to help you understand the what, why and how of sustainability for your organization. Sustainability is a journey and we can be your partner along the way.
Aspire Sustainability LLC • Breckenridge, Colorado • Albany, New Yorkwww.aspiresustainability.com • 1.970.682.4224 • [email protected]
Brand Image• Enhance brand image of your product• Enhance brand image of your company
Competitive Advantage• Counter a competitor offering green products• Position using sustainability features
Stakeholder Engagement• Influence within your industry• Influence at policy level
ProductDifferentiation• Gain market share based on environmental attributes• Gain price differential based on environmental attributes
Customer• Address customer interest in environmental attributes• Meet customer requirements for sustainability attributes
Risk Reduction• Identify and mitigate environmental risks • Avoid potential future liability
Our experts support innovation and environmental leadership across
organizations serving varied customer segments and market regions
around the world. Here are examples of how environmental sustainability
efforts can help enable business success for you:
Life cycle assessment (LCA) & Eco-design
Organizational sustainability goals & metrics
Environmental life cycle management (LCM)
Sustainability 101 & capability building
Sustainability program development
Emerging sustainability issues
Carbon, energy, and water footprints
Employee engagement & retention
OUR KEY SKILL SETS
Aspire Sustainability can help you with:
ENABLING ORGANIZATIONAL SUCCESS
Regulations and Standards• Prepare for changing environmental regulatory landscape• Meet industry standards, such as sustainability metrics
Cost Reduction• Lower materials/supply chain expenses• Reduce manufacturing cost
Aspire Sustainability focuses on creating business value —
directly and indirectly — in several ways.
• Customized sustainability strategies & solutions
• Credible, science-based corporate goals & metrics
• Effective Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) approaches
• Improved supply chain sustainability
• Efficient energy, water & waste reduction strategies
A Life Cycle Assessment can be a valuable tool for evaluating challengingsustainability issues or for determining meaningful areas for improvement. This approach can be used for products, technologies, and services as well as whole companies. Here are somehelpful examples of when a LCA should beconducted:
WHEN A CUSTOMER…
requires an LCA/carbon footprint as part of an RFP
WHEN A COMPETITOR…
is not using LCA/carbon footprint and you have an opportunity to improve your market position
WHEN YOUR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TEAM…
is launching a “green” product, eco-labeling or preparing an Environmental Product Declaration
WHEN YOUR CURRENT PRODUCT…
has environmental issues, benefits, or tradeoffs that need to be quantified and communicated
mitigates environmental issues and you want to convey the benefit
requires complex environmental messaging
WHEN YOUR COMPANY…
Aspire Sustainability's experts strategically apply a life cycle
perspective to develop more sustainable products, services and
technologies. We have extensive experience helping organizations
conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) —a proven, credible
method for quantifying the life cycle environmental benefits and
impacts of products, services, and technologies across value
chains.
Our team has executed highly effective LCAs across more than 40
product categories. We understand how to customize science-
based environmental assessments to address the range of products,
technologies, and service solutions specific to our individual clients’
needs. We possess a unique proficiency to leverage and integrate
results into meaningful strategies and focused actions.
has set goals and metrics to advance the values and sustainability of the organization
is integrating circular economy, materials sustainability, and efficiency into its core mission
PRODUCT SUSTAINABILITY
Materials
Use
Distribution
Manufacturing
PreprocessingEnd of Life
asks for LCA/carbon footprint data as part ofa sustainability program
is using LCA/carbon footprint to market a “green” product
plans to use Design for Environment (DfE) tools (LCA can provide the quantitative ‘roadmap’ for DfE efforts)
contains toxics, heavy metals, rare earth minerals, or other substances of concern
has an opportunity to exert sustainability thought leadership at the customer or industry-wide level
PEOPLE | PLANET | PROFIT | PURPOSE
Contact us today to get started on your sustainability journey or to accelerate your existing programs.
Angela FisherBSEnvEng, MSEnvEng
LCA-CP • ISSP-SA • [email protected]
Bill Flanagan
BSChE, MSChE, PhDLCA-CP
Our CommitmentOur purpose is to empower and inspire individuals, companies big and small, and anyone striving for a more sustainable world. Wewhole-heartedly believe in the concepts of handprinting and net positive where the good we do and how much we give back should far outweigh the footprint or impacts of how we live and do business. Aspire Sustainability is a Reforestation Partner with One Tree Planted and a proud member of 1% for the Planet with foci on key areas of giving including climate change, natural resource conservation, biodiversity, water, and global social programs. We volunteer in our communities, hold leadership roles in non-profit organizations, and collaborate with a variety of academic institutions. We participate in Earth Hour annually, purchase carbon offsets for every business-related trip, and operate our Breckenridge office with renewable energy. Additionally, we foster a healthful work-life balance by encouraging wellness inside and outside the workplace.
Our QualificationsOur team brings over 35 years of combined sustainability and strategy development experience with diverse clients across a variety of global sectors including healthcare, power, lighting, water, transportation, renewable energy, aviation, appliances, remediation, advanced materials, and additive manufacturing. Our award-winning experts are highly trained and professionally certified, with technical engineering backgrounds; proven, tiered communication approaches; and demonstrated practice in life cycle assessment, eco-design, and life cycle costing. We are creative, innovative thinkers able to conceive practical and impactful solutions in emerging areas such as circular economy, zero waste, net positive, sustainable development goals, biodiversity and much more.
Accelerate sustainability initiatives
Mitigate environmental challenges
Understand a product’s life cycle environmental impact
Align sustainability with vision and values
Measure and reduce corporate and product environmental footprints
Reduce costs through water, waste, energy, and materials efficiency
Develop and implement meaningful sustainability goals and programs
Substantiate green marketing collateral
Position for emerging sustainability issues
Boost employee engagement & retention
Enhance your brand image and reputation
Engage key stakeholders and customers
Aspire Sustainability is an insightful and knowledgeable resource for your comprehensive
sustainability strategy. We serve as credible and trustworthy professionals, ready to help you:
