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LA Metro sought to develop green acquisitions policy and framework in order to guide future purchases of services and products in as socially, ethically and responsible a manner as possible.
LA Metro sought to develop green acquisitions policy and framework in order to guide future purchases of services and products in as socially, ethically and responsible a manner as possible. Clean interviewed internal stakeholders analyzed LA Metro’s current programs and worked with collaborators to develop a baseline assessment of green acquisitions and provide recommendations for future improvements. The results of these activities brought forth relevant concepts to this project, including public agencies’ staffing and workload pressures related to sustainability, as well as providing relevant information to the community and external stakeholders.
As part of this effort, Clean also assisted in developing workshops with internal stakeholders and developing presentations for external stakeholders in order to communicate progress. In addition, Clean provided research and subject matter expertise in professional services, construction, peer examples, and best practices.
Allbirds engaged Clean Agency to support them in their commitment to sustainability using Life Cycle Assessments thinking and tools for their supply chain.
Allbirds designs and produces comfortable shoes with natural materials. Allbirds engaged Clean Agency to support them in their commitment to sustainability using Life Cycle Assessments thinking and tools for their supply chain. This internal tool, mentioned in Forbes, allows the brand to analyze scenarios and estimate their product impacts based on material blends, manufacturing processes, manufacturing location and so on to enable quick and sustainable decision making throughout their supply chain. Clean supported in raw data collection, verification and developed the multi-user accessible LCA based product optimization tool and dashboard.
“Clean Agency leveraged their expertise to help us create an LCA tool fit for our business and desired outcomes.”
– Hana Kajimura, Sustainability Manager, Allbirds
Cisco engaged Clean Agency to conduct a Supply Chain Sustainability workshop at their headquarters.
Cisco Systems engaged Clean Agency to conduct a Supply Chain Sustainability workshop in their headquarters. The project was a guided workshop to cultivate and support employee engagement and target setting around specific supply chain sustainability issues.
Clean Agency build a plan to support Cisco’s supply chain goals to increase transparency and promote real time continuous improvement. The workshop enabled employees to comprehend and confront the depth of relevant sustainability issues and set realistic targets to achieve each year. The successful workshop conducted in San Jose is expected to be modeled across the globe in Cisco’s various divisions to promote and incorporate the culture of sustainability and continuous improvement.
Clean has worked with Caesars Entertainment for over four years on many projects, including global sustainable fish sourcing and carbon reduction around LED lighting.
Clean has worked with the company for over four years on many projects. These include global sustainable fish sourcing, carbon reduction around LED lighting program,supply chain impacts and support for suppliers around the CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project).
Caesars Entertainment has over 50 casinos in 6 countries. Their corporate structure is continuing to improve its global environmental impacts and reports yearly GRI CSR report.. Clean has also participated in a cross industry brainstorm around sustainability in Las Vegas with various casino brands. Caesars included Clean in their women minority certified program (WBENC).
Nomacorc and Clean Agency established their relationship in 2011, the year of Nomacorc’s inaugural sustainability report.
Nomacorc and Clean Agency established their relationship in 2011, the year of Nomacorc’s inaugural sustainability report. Clean has conducted review and external assurance for the wine closure maker’s sustainability reports from its inception and the relationship continues to be strong.
The sustainability reports follow the GRI reporting format and most recently the 2014 report was upgraded to GRI G4. Clean Agency has also actively engaged in Nomacorc’s stakeholder activities around issues of sustainability. Based on our recommendations in the previous years, it is noteworthy that Nomacorc LLC has laid out goals to consistently improve upon and implement most of our recommendations, by which their data collection process, sustainability target setting and stakeholder engagement continues to grow stronger every year.
Clean has also engaged with Nomacorc in reviewing the company’s first full Life Cycle Assessment Study for their Classic and Classic+ closures.
Clean Agency led a strategic sustainability planning process for the Port of Los Angeles, enabling them to inventory and codify their existing sustainability programs, and to prioritize and set goals for future work.
The Port of Los Angeles (the Port) operates and supports a wide variety of sustainability programs, with varying functions and objectives. The Port’s Environmental Management Division engaged Clean to hold a series of strategic sustainability planning workshops, with the intent of developing a holistic and comprehensive planning framework to codify existing sustainability programs and to guide future efforts in the near- and longterms.
In the first workshop, Clean presented research on the status of sustainability reporting and planning among competing global ports, similar organizations, and the Port’s own customers. Based on best practices extracted from this research combined with our deep knowledge of the Port’s sustainability experiences, our team developed a sustainability planning template for the Port. Subsequent workshops were spent working with internal teams to fill in this template by identifying key areas of sustainability on which to focus future efforts, brainstorming sustainability objectives and goals, defining sustainability actions to pursue, and isolating metrics with which to measure success.
Clean Agency supported Reformation, a budding fashion brand, in its pioneering efforts to quantify and communicate their product impacts.
Reformation engaged Clean Agency to support the budding fashion brand’s pioneering efforts in quantifying and communicating their product impacts.
Clean engaged in the review and verification of data collection and methodology based on Life Cycle thinking. The methodology modeled included water use and carbon emissions from growing/manufacturing fiber, dyeing process, manufacturing fabric, transportation and packaging. The result of background data collection and synthesis was put together into a consumer facing snapshot called RefScale. Through this snapshot a consumer can compare the water use and carbon emissions of a Reformation product with respect to a comparable “industry standard” product that would typically be made of less sustainable material and shipped from China.
Reformation seeks to continuously improve upon their RefScale model to create a robust industry benchmark for quantifying apparel product impacts. RefScale was released on Earth Day 2015 and Clean continues to support Reformation in creating a benchmark in sustainable fashion.
By employing a combination of life cycle assessment and recyclability research, Clean Agency provided Gerber with the knowledge and guidance they needed to communicate on the environmental impacts of two key packaging changes.
Clean Agency conducted Life Cycle Assessments to measure the “before & after” environmental impacts of two recent packaging changes to Gerber products. We engaged a cross-functional team to gather data for the assessments, calculated the before and after results, and identified, tested and recommended environmental improvement strategies. For one of these packaging transitions, Clean also conducted an indepth recyclability study to evaluate the recyclability of the package and recommend messaging in conformity with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission’s green guides.
In phase II of this work, Clean distilled the results of these assessments into sustainability communications guidance materials for use by Gerber’s consumer- and customer-facing employees when describing the packaging transitions.
Metro
Sustainability Policy AssessmentLA Metro sought to develop green acquisitions policy and framework in order to guide future purchases of services and products in as socially, ethically and responsible a manner as possible. Clean interviewed internal stakeholders analyzed LA Metro’s current programs and worked with collaborators to develop a baseline assessment of green acquisitions and provide recommendations for future improvements. The results of these activities brought forth relevant concepts to this project, including public agencies’ staffing and workload pressures related to sustainability, as well as providing relevant information to the community and external stakeholders.
As part of this effort, Clean also assisted in developing workshops with internal stakeholders and developing presentations for external stakeholders in order to communicate progress. In addition, Clean provided research and subject matter expertise in professional services, construction, peer examples, and best practices.
Allbirds
Custom LCA Tool DevelopmentAllbirds designs and produces comfortable shoes with natural materials. Allbirds engaged Clean Agency to support them in their commitment to sustainability using Life Cycle Assessments thinking and tools for their supply chain. This internal tool, mentioned in Forbes, allows the brand to analyze scenarios and estimate their product impacts based on material blends, manufacturing processes, manufacturing location and so on to enable quick and sustainable decision making throughout their supply chain. Clean supported in raw data collection, verification and developed the multi-user accessible LCA based product optimization tool and dashboard.
“Clean Agency leveraged their expertise to help us create an LCA tool fit for our business and desired outcomes.”
– Hana Kajimura, Sustainability Manager, Allbirds
Cisco
Sustainability strategyCisco Systems engaged Clean Agency to conduct a Supply Chain Sustainability workshop in their headquarters. The project was a guided workshop to cultivate and support employee engagement and target setting around specific supply chain sustainability issues.
Clean Agency build a plan to support Cisco’s supply chain goals to increase transparency and promote real time continuous improvement. The workshop enabled employees to comprehend and confront the depth of relevant sustainability issues and set realistic targets to achieve each year. The successful workshop conducted in San Jose is expected to be modeled across the globe in Cisco’s various divisions to promote and incorporate the culture of sustainability and continuous improvement.
Caesars Entertainment
Technical assessment & innovationClean has worked with the company for over four years on many projects. These include global sustainable fish sourcing, carbon reduction around LED lighting program,supply chain impacts and support for suppliers around the CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project).
Caesars Entertainment has over 50 casinos in 6 countries. Their corporate structure is continuing to improve its global environmental impacts and reports yearly GRI CSR report.. Clean has also participated in a cross industry brainstorm around sustainability in Las Vegas with various casino brands. Caesars included Clean in their women minority certified program (WBENC).
Nomacorc
CommunicationsNomacorc and Clean Agency established their relationship in 2011, the year of Nomacorc’s inaugural sustainability report. Clean has conducted review and external assurance for the wine closure maker’s sustainability reports from its inception and the relationship continues to be strong.
The sustainability reports follow the GRI reporting format and most recently the 2014 report was upgraded to GRI G4. Clean Agency has also actively engaged in Nomacorc’s stakeholder activities around issues of sustainability. Based on our recommendations in the previous years, it is noteworthy that Nomacorc LLC has laid out goals to consistently improve upon and implement most of our recommendations, by which their data collection process, sustainability target setting and stakeholder engagement continues to grow stronger every year.
Clean has also engaged with Nomacorc in reviewing the company’s first full Life Cycle Assessment Study for their Classic and Classic+ closures.
The Port of Los Angeles
Sustainability strategyThe Port of Los Angeles (the Port) operates and supports a wide variety of sustainability programs, with varying functions and objectives. The Port’s Environmental Management Division engaged Clean to hold a series of strategic sustainability planning workshops, with the intent of developing a holistic and comprehensive planning framework to codify existing sustainability programs and to guide future efforts in the near- and longterms.
In the first workshop, Clean presented research on the status of sustainability reporting and planning among competing global ports, similar organizations, and the Port’s own customers. Based on best practices extracted from this research combined with our deep knowledge of the Port’s sustainability experiences, our team developed a sustainability planning template for the Port. Subsequent workshops were spent working with internal teams to fill in this template by identifying key areas of sustainability on which to focus future efforts, brainstorming sustainability objectives and goals, defining sustainability actions to pursue, and isolating metrics with which to measure success.
Reformation
Technical assessment & innovationReformation engaged Clean Agency to support the budding fashion brand’s pioneering efforts in quantifying and communicating their product impacts.
Clean engaged in the review and verification of data collection and methodology based on Life Cycle thinking. The methodology modeled included water use and carbon emissions from growing/manufacturing fiber, dyeing process, manufacturing fabric, transportation and packaging. The result of background data collection and synthesis was put together into a consumer facing snapshot called RefScale. Through this snapshot a consumer can compare the water use and carbon emissions of a Reformation product with respect to a comparable “industry standard” product that would typically be made of less sustainable material and shipped from China.
Reformation seeks to continuously improve upon their RefScale model to create a robust industry benchmark for quantifying apparel product impacts. RefScale was released on Earth Day 2015 and Clean continues to support Reformation in creating a benchmark in sustainable fashion.
Gerber
CommunicationsClean Agency conducted Life Cycle Assessments to measure the “before & after” environmental impacts of two recent packaging changes to Gerber products. We engaged a cross-functional team to gather data for the assessments, calculated the before and after results, and identified, tested and recommended environmental improvement strategies. For one of these packaging transitions, Clean also conducted an indepth recyclability study to evaluate the recyclability of the package and recommend messaging in conformity with the requirements of the Federal Trade Commission’s green guides.
In phase II of this work, Clean distilled the results of these assessments into sustainability communications guidance materials for use by Gerber’s consumer- and customer-facing employees when describing the packaging transitions.