This year’s Earth Day theme, “Our Power, Our Planet”, promotes environmental progress built from everyday action and collaboration creating incremental change. Greenleaf is committed to supporting solutions that promote a healthy planet while empowering change at all levels. Climate mitigation, adaptation, and forecasting Renewable energy for a clean economy Climate-smart agriculture providing resilience and enhanced […]
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Board member Brian Richter shares his insights on a “World Out of Balance” in the western U.S.
Board member Brian Richter shares his insights on a “World Out of Balance” in the western U.S., where unsustainable water management and governance failures are threatening water security for cities, agriculture, and infrastructure. This crisis can be attended to but one must follow the principles and solutions Brian outlines for sustainable water management including building […]
Continue readingSustainable Infrastructure Solutions at SRI Congress
It was a pleasure to lead yesterday’s panel on Sustainable Infrastructure Solutions at the 2025 Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress in Chicago. Greenleaf Communities NFP and Greenleaf Advisors, LLC convened expert partners to address innovative solutions on climate, water, energy and natural resources challenges. We were honored to celebrate Juneteenth at #SRI2025 along the creativity […]
Continue readingOur Power, Our Planet – Earth Day 2025
This Earth Day, we reflect on the vital connection between people, the planet, and the power we all have to make a difference. From the energy we use, the water we conserve, the materials we choose, and the land we safeguard, our actions shape a more resilient future. Below, we spotlight solutions, and the people […]
Continue readingJoin us at SRI Congress in Chicago – Greenleaf presenting on “Distributed Networked Solutions”
Please join us at the SRI Congress in Chicago on June 16-19 hosted by the University of Illinois system. SRI2025 will spotlight Pathways to Sustainability Solutions, sharing implementation strategies and legacies of successful approaches to critical sustainability concerns. It will provide opportunities to overcome challenges that slow our transformation to more resilient and equitable futures. Participants include world-renowned […]
Continue reading2024 in Review: Greenleaf is advancing sustainable solutions for climate and natural resources.
There has never been a more urgent time to confront the interconnected threats of climate change, water scarcity, and unsustainable land use that jeopardize life on Earth. We must act now to chart a more favorable course than the one we are on, implementing practices and policies that mitigate risks and help us adapt to […]
Continue readingEncouraging the U.S. to act on climate – carbon pricing is the single most effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions
It is imperative that the United States acts further to address climate change – 2023 was a record setting year for the most billion-dollar disaster events worldwide and in the U.S.,[1] causing loss of human life and damages to health as well as damage to infrastructure and property with major implications for our economy. Despite […]
Continue readingBlacks in Green hosts Justice Comes of Age launch event for the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (EJ TCTAC)
Greenleaf is honored to work with Blacks in Green, a West Woodlawn-based nonprofit organization that is pioneering environmental economic development for the benefit of Black America. Blacks in Green leads the Sustainable Square Mile and the Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Center (TCTAC) in EPA Region 5 to help disadvantaged communities and organizations build […]
Continue readingGreenleaf is advancing a healthy and sustainable world. – Winter Update
Greenleaf Advisors LLC and Greenleaf Communities NFP advance a healthy and sustainable world, applying multi-disciplinary science to policy and practices to address climate change, environmental justice, energy, sustainable land use, and freshwater resources. In 2023 with our partners, we accelerated the transition to a more sustainable world, with the imperative to address climate change central to our work. […]
Continue readingLet the sun shine – Celebrating the Winter Solstice
On the Winter Solstice, Earth stands still, pausing, shifting, moving toward days filled with light. We, too, pause to reflect, and move fervently toward a more sustainable world, giving thanks to those whose work stewards earth’s resources for all. Let us continue on our sustainable path, taking purposeful steps, respecting each other, sharing knowledge, stewarding […]
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