Achieving Ecosystem Benefits through Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Transactions

2005 - 2008

This project team sought to work with facilities and landowners in Illinois and Michigan, in order to develop a series of tools to track and measure the full extent of environmental impacts associated with reduction actions.

Developing Markets to Manage Ecosystems

2001 - 2004

Developing New Financing Products for Great Lakes Ecosystem Restoration

2006 - 2008

A project team of ecological and financial professionals aimed to develop and deploy financial ecosystem restoration tools to generate revenue to support restoration in the Great Lakes region.

Ecological and Environmental Corporate Performance Measures for the Great Lakes Regional Ecosystem

2000 - 2001

Great Lakes Energy Network Services

1998 - 2000

This team will create the Great Lakes Energy Network to work with school systems, utilities, and state and federal agencies to quantify emissions reductions attributable to improved energy efficiency in schools.

Great Lakes Green Purchasing Consortium: Leveraging Purchasing Power to Improve Environmental Quality

2008 - 2009

This team worked to create a network of environmentally preferable purchasing consortiums across the basin.

Insuring Environmental Improvement in the Great Lakes Ecosystem: A Collaboration with the Insurance and Great Lakes Industries

2001 - 2005

This project demonstrated that both individual companies and their insurers can benefit, if insurance products are structured to promote and reward a company's effort to eliminate toxic pollutants at their source.

Market Based Approaches to Green Infrastructure to Restore Hydrologic Function

2011 - Present

This team will develop a market-based approach to provide a consistent source of capital for sustainable stormwater solutions that will ultimately lead to reestablishment of more natural flows and improved water quality and function for Great Lakes tributaries.