Sustainability Solutions Group Follow
Vancouver, British Columbia
Consulting
Interests: Climate Change, Community Development, Green Building
http://www.sustainabilitysolutions.ca
About Sustainability Solutions Group

Our Story

We're a co-op: a different business model with a different purpose. We're a collection of leading sustainability professionals. We're local and we're across Canada. Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) workers cooperative is a complete sustainability managements systems provider.

 

Vision

SSG envisions a just, happy and healthy world where the wellbeing of one is connected to and reliant upon the wellbeing of all.

Mission

SSG is an innovative Canadian worker co-operative that nurtures and embodies a holistic understanding of sustainability and works with clients and collaborators to meaningfully integrate social, ecological and economic practices in their organisations and work.

Services

Holistic, triple bottom line thiking on creative sustainability projects. We've got ideas, solutions and thorough methodology for organizational sustainability assessments and management systems, green building certification (LEED), community planning and public engagement, integrated design process delivery, energy planning, emissions mitigation strategies, carbon neutral systems, campus sustainability and research.

Our Journey

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

SSG created an on-line resource providing guidance and assistance to co-ops and credit unions on how they can embed sustainability strategy development; measurement; monitoring, and reporting within their organization. All resources in the Toolkit present ideas through a co-operative lens and link practices to co-operative social responsibility. The toolkit was ...

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our interactive modeling tool asks: how much GHG reductions can you get? - http://www.sustainabilitysolutions.ca/interactive.html

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we're excited about the release of our free/open source GHG modeling tool for communities - http://www.sustainabilitysolutions.ca/landuse/

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Carbon neutral? Net zero energy? SSG offers carbon neutral course in Victoria (June 21st): http://cuttingthroughthehotair.eventbrite.com/

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a new commitment:

SSG worker members are very conscious of the environmental consequences of their travel and transportation choices. Consequently, ongoing efforts are made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by minimizing travel and by favouring low carbon alternatives whenever travel is required.  Although total kilometres travelled decreased between 2007 and 2008 it increased in 2009 reaching an SSG record high ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a new commitment:

Opportunities on Campus Educational institutions have an unparalleled position to apply new theories, technologies and values. They are in a unique position to simultaneously foster future leaders and lead by example in seeking solutions to ecological, social and economic challenges we face today and  in the future. Educational institutions have significant opportunities ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a new commitment:

Sustainability Solutions Group helps organizations and not-for-profits comprehensively address their climate change impacts. Every non-profit organization's operations have a carbon footprint: air and ground travel, heating and cooling offices, powering equipment, paper use, shipping, and waste disposal, to name a few. 1 Develop carbon consciousness SSG works with your management ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

Communities increasingly address climate change through local government policies and actions. Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) is further supporting these efforts with the release of GHGProof - a powerful yet easy to use, fully transparent and open source model that enables local governments to measure greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and costs ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

Cutting through the hot air: a course on carbon neutral buildingsVictoria BC, June 21, 8:30am - 12:30pmCarbon neutral? Net zero energy? Zero energy building? Offsetting?Getting confused yet! Architecture 2030, the Living Building Challenge, One Planet Living, and many governments are encouraging and requiring a move toward carbon neutrality in buildings.This ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

Join Lindsay as she presents about the sustainability journey of the Vancouver Convention Centre - West. The Vancouver LEED Users' Group is hosting the meeting on May 28 2010, 12-1pm. Click here for more information.

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

TheChange is a media platform for sustainability engagement. We are 1 of 30 founding local organizations selected to participate in TheChange's launch, and the only co-op! Check out www.thechange.com to see how we're participating!

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

SSG's 2009 sustainability assessment is now available! SSG takes stock of its work, its members, its progress and all of its ups and downs annually. 29 indicators show you how we did in 2009 and help us set directions for 2010 and beyond! Let us know what you think!http://bit.ly/bPCyM3~Jeremy

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

The Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion is getting a lot of press these days. Sustainable Architecture and Building magazine recently recognized it as being one of the 10 best green buildings of 2010. SSG helped lead the team that pushed this building past the LEED Gold target to achieve Platinum.Check out ...

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SSG is participating in TheChange by showing how organizational, campus, building and community sustainability is meaningfully pursued.

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

The Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project (VCCEP) was awarded LEED Platinum, the highest level of certification by the Canada Green Building Council. SSG was the sustainability and LEED consultant for VCCEP. The certification was awarded seven days before VCCEP hosts 7,000 journalists for the 2010 Olympics and Paralympics.VCCEP includes more ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

SSG's 2008 Internal Sustainability Assessment report now available here.

2 years, 5 months ago by Jeremy Murphy • Comment (0) •

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

Lindsay Cole was appointed a member of the GCAT. "At the beginning of 2009, Mayor Gregor Robertson assembled the Greenest City Action Team and threw down an audacious and exciting challenge: to develop a plan to make Vancouver the greenest city in the world by 2020....." Their response to this ...

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Sustainability Solutions Group Posted a news article :

The Currents, Ottawa: SSG delivers a LEED platinum mixed-use building.

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SSG was featured (alongside Michael Pollen, Carl Sagan and Ghandi!) in Green Living, Spring 2009

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Jeremy Murphy
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