Helping clients achieve their maximum ecological, social and economic potential.

One Planet Community's non-profit consulting team of sustainability facilitation and green building experts works with forward-thinking real estate developers, municipalities, and organizations to create Sustainability Action Plans - practical roadmaps to achieving "true sustainability" in infrastructure development and sustainable living.

Background
One Planet Communities in North America is delivered by BioRegional North America, a registered non-profit and sister organization of BioRegional in London, UK. BioRegional has over a decade of experience as sustainability facilitators, leaders in the implementation of ground-breaking and award-winning work in eco-housing, fibres, sustainable forestry, sustainable farming, paper and recycling. The BedZED eco-village in London is BioRegional's most recognized achievement.

The BioRegional North American consulting team draw upon and contribute to the international expertise of BioRegional's consulting practice within the One Planet Communities program. Our consulting practice is based on lessons learned and best practices from our pioneering work building leading green developments such as BedZED and developing comprehensive sustainability strategies for enterprises around the world.

Consulting Services
Our consultants have a broad range of hands-on expertise, including: green building materials (in particular interior fit-up and LEED compliance); community engagement, facilitation, asset-mapping and social marketing skills; facilitation of integrated design teams; green marketing and retail web strategies; sustainable business, knowledge management and change management; environmental law and policy reform; The Natural Step; and zero (fossil) energy developments.

We have worked on many of the leading green developments in North America and are deeply networked with cutting-edge developments and sustainability initiatives world-wide.

Sustainability Action Planning The One Planet Communities Consulting team uses a holistic Sustainability Action Plan process to help its partners achieve advanced sustainability goals and market leadership. Using the Ten Principles of One Planet Communities, ecological footprinting, and bioregionalism as a holistic guide to develop concrete plans for raising the quality of life and sustainability of new and existing communities, regions, and businesses.

Picture: BioRegional North America lead a Sustainability Action Planning process charrette at Sonoma Mountain Village in California.

One Planet Lifestyles
In combination with our strong green building knowledge base, we also offer unparalleled expertise in developing and implementing sustainable lifestyles strategies for communities and businesses. The relative importance of lifestyle choices compared to the impact of our buildings and infrastructure is extremely high. For example, our food consumption alone accounts for around a quarter of our total ecological footprint. The One Planet Lifestyles Process compliments a Sustainability Action Plan with a suite of cost-effective methods to A) increase quality of life, health, happiness and interaction among residents or employees and B) to gently persuade residents or employees to lower their ecological impacts to a One Planet level, and provide the infrastructure and social programs that make sustainable behaviours easy, affordable, and practical.