Clean Strategic Planning
To implement sustainable approaches successfully, Clean balances initiatives against existing marketing and operational needs, ensuring integration in everyday practices. We provide a variety of tools and approaches individually tailored to each client, optimizing sustainability efforts into an integrated and profitable business practice.
Life Cycle Assessment
Effective solutions involve an understanding of the connections that exist between biological, technical and human systems. Clean applies life cycle thinking to every aspect of an engagement.
Whether the project involves screening or full life cycle assessments (LCAs), Clean conducts the analysis with its final application in mind. Clean is experienced in conducting life cycle assessments for consumer products, packaging and services for a variety of companies both large and small.
Carbon and Water Footprinting
Today, more than ever, telling a comprehensive “carbon story” is vital for consumer product companies as brands are equated with their social and environmental impacts. Clean’s deep knowledge of existing and emerging international protocols enables us to steward companies through the process of gathering, calculating and reporting the right data.
Clean customizes our approach to carbon and water footprinting to align with our clients’ corporate communication strategies. Our strength lies in crafting a comprehensive footprint that supports an organization’s broader goals and objectives.
Research & Verification
Clean’s services are rooted in the discipline of industrial ecology (IE) and we provide a robust research component to relevant projects.
Clean invests in its research infrastructure and occupies a unique niche among consulting firms by providing twin strengths in communications and research. Our in-house research department is led by Robert Vos, PhD, and is supported through strategic partnerships with university partners.
Specific research services include supply chain analysis, design for recycling (DfR), ISO LCA verification and green technologies, all applied to modeling and research for innovations in consumer products and packaging.
Sustainable Procurement Policies and Processes
Sustainable procurement is one of the fastest-growing areas of corporate social responsibility.
With our deep environmental expertise and strong relationships with universities and non-governmental organizations, Clean can help your company to stay on top of major supply chain issues and adopt the right metrics for sustainable procurement. Every supply chain is different, and Clean will work with you to develop the right mechanisms — whether web-based tools, in-person training sessions or on-the-ground auditing — to ensure your company meets its sustainable procurement goals.
Software Support & Customized Tool Creation
There’s a lot of sustainability software out there: from LCA tools for product and packaging design, to programs to manage data for CSR reporting. Combine that with your company’s existing internal data management systems and the prospect of collecting and tracking your company’s sustainability data can seem overwhelming.
From supplier scorecards, to design tools, to data management systems — make Clean your partner in building the tools and processes you need to measure and balance environmental, social and economic performance.
CSR Reporting
Clean is an experienced facilitator of the CSR reporting process with expertise in the latest Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines. We lead companies through all aspects of CSR reporting, from defining environmental, social and economic priorities, to writing CSR reports that authentically relay an organization’s sustainability performance.
For companies that self-prepare CSR reports according to GRI standards, CLEAN also provides external reporting level verification services.
Stakeholder Communications
Clean overcomes organizational roadblocks to build internal momentum around environmental priorities. Through education and empowerment of internal teams, we ensure that new policies and initiatives achieve ultimate success.
Clean’s staff applies communications expertise throughout an engagement to build clarity, retain interest and relay purpose. We have developed integrated campaign strategies, branding and communications frameworks for some of the largest companies in the world. We employ a variety of tools and vehicles to immerse stakeholders in a project’s vocabulary and ethos.