Large-scale companies have large scale opportunities to innovate in sustainability. Explore the spectrum of what is possible with sustainability, from finding creative ways to use solar, to reduce water, energy and waste, to reworking products to be more sustainable. Discover new ways to innovate in your own organization's sustainability effort.

Just as Prius drivers inevitably change their driving habits in response to their dashboard's real time energy performance readouts, generative feedback -- dynamic information on "how are we doing" -- can improve performance. This systems approach combined with sustainability indicators can serve businesses, business associations, and communities; change the paradigm of environmental and economic reporting; and help us all create the change we wish to see in the world. But it depends on measuring what matters -- choosing the right indicators, that help your organization make the right decisions, to improve your performance and the quality of life in the communities and ecosystems you operate in.

This workshop will cover how CH2M HILL, a global planning, design, and construction firm, is applying sustainability both to client projects and to the company’s own internal operations. Ms. Gardner will discuss several more focused and practical definitions of sustainability that CH2M HILL uses to promote implementation of sustainable approaches in projects and the global trends and drivers that are pushing clients towards sustainability. She will present several examples of how CH2M HILL has incorporated sustainability into projects. She will also show how the company has used its knowledge of sustainability to address the impacts of its own business operations.