ACE can work with your organization to develop, implement, COMMUNICATE, and market social programs and activities.
Rocky Mountain Association of Environmental Professionals (RMAEP)
Greening EnviroFest 2008, 2009 and 2010
ACE planned, managed, and greened the environmental non-profit's annual environmental networking and educational event called EnviroFest in both 2008 and 2009. The event planning involved outreach to the RMAEP members, creative development of the event's logo, save-the-date and invitations, and advertisement and outreach efforts to publicize the event. ACE also managed the budget for the event including vendor sponsorship fees, facility rental, catering costs, music, and the donation of raffle contest prizes and other in-kind donations.
The event was a green event and produced "zero waste" by implementing composting and recycling practices and utilized printing on recycled content paper. The event was also carbon neutral by balancing out carbon dioxide emissions created from all participants driving to the event, the planning of the event, and the energy consumed the night of the event. ACE is currently working on the greening of EnviroFest 2010.
City Park Running Club
Greening the Mother's Day 5K Race
ACE is the green consultant that worked to make the 2010 Mother's Day 5K Race a greener event. ACE worked with multiple vendors to reduce the race's environmental impact in the areas of fuel consumption, waste generation, recycling and composting, printing, and material use and re-use. ACE also "told the green story behind the race" by compiling the content about the environmental aspects of the race for use in marketing materials.
Mile High Music Festival
VIP Green Artist Room
ACE provided green consulting ideas to help make the VIP Green Artist Room a more sustainable endeavor. Suggestions were made to help reduce the overall impact of the event in the areas of material use and consumption, energy consumption, waste generation, and pollution prevention.
Constructors and Designers Alliance (CDA)
Silent Auction Fundraiser
ACE organized the 2010 CDA Silent Auction benefiting Colorado Construction Career Days (CCCD). The event resulted in record-breaking proceeds and was also a green event aiming towards zero waste.
CDA is an alliance of 23 construction and design related associations working together on various industry-wide issues. CCCD is an annual event that increases awareness in youth about the various job opportunities available in the construction and design industries.
SkillBuild Colorado
Construction Intermediary Consultant
ACE is working as the intermediary consultant between SkillBuild Colorado and the Constructors and Designers Alliance (CDA). ACE’s role is to identify and perform various capacity building, workforce development partnerships, and systems or policy changes to help increase job placement in the construction, design, and energy efficiency and renewable energy industries. SkillBuild Colorado is a workforce funding collaborative consisting of various public and private investors.
Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
Training Development and Implementation
ACE developed and implemented training for AGC that outlined some basic training requirements for the construction industry. Included in the training topics were the Clean Water Act, stormwater permit and SWMP requirements, determining the effectiveness of BMPs, and overall stormwater compliance tips.
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE)
Go Green! Awareness Training
ACE developed and delivered an environmental awareness training course to the Emergency Preparedness and Response Division of the CDPHE. The training was designed to emphasize the impact that an individual can have both at home and the workplace on reducing energy consumption, water consumption, and waste generation. The training included awareness about impacts of human activities on the environment, goals of the Colorado Climate Action Plan, efforts of the Governor's Energy Office (GEO), rebates and savings incentives (federal, state and local), and steps that individuals can immediately implement at work and home to become more green and reduce their environmental footprint while saving money. The training also included a greening scorecard exercise for each attendee to score themselves on their current green activities and identify "low-hanging fruit" or easy and efficient green actions to implement upon leaving the training course.
Signature Offset
Green Marketing
ACE utilized information gathered from the Sustainability Assessment conducted on Signature Offset to graph the carbon footprint of the different printing processes and to distinguish Signature Offset from its competitors as a greener printer for use in green marketing.
Corporate Express US Inc.
Ecoffice Makeover Contest
ACE was one of three sustainability consulting firms hired by Corporate Express to provide sustainability services to their Ecoffice Makeover Contest winner. ACE worked as part of the Corporate Express team to recommend green office practices for their winners, while the other consultants performed general sustainability awareness activities and green cleaning recommendations.
Qi Athletic Club and Seasons Fit
Causes for Community, Community Outreach Program
ACE developed and implements a local community outreach program called Causes for Community. Causes for Community is a volunteer community outreach that helps raise money for various non-profit causes by offering donation-based spin yoga classes (30 minutes spin, 30 minutes yoga stretching) where 100% of the donations from the class go towards the fund-raising cause. Causes for Community has helped caring Coloradans raise money for The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, The American Red Cross, The Children's Hospital, Hope Connects, Yoga for the People, and the National MS Society.
The Program also partners up with local and sustainable businesses to offer gift certificates to program participants. Causes for Community's past and upcoming causes can be found on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/causes.for.community
If you are interested in partnering with Causes for Community as a community outreach effort or if you are interested in raising money through a Causes for Community spin yoga class, please contact ACE!
Environmental Resource Technologies (ERT)
Environmental Grant Writing
ACE gathered information, performed research, obtained letters of support, and compiled and submitted a grant application for ERT to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills through a proposed recycling project that would enable the local recycling of fluorescent bulbs.
Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT)
Greening Government Research Project
ACE worked with several divisions of CDOT to identify preliminary action steps that would need to be implemented to achieve the goals in Governor Ritter's executive order on greening state government by 2012. ACE also developed an implementation plan that recommended green action steps pertaining to the recent greening requirements as well as previously enacted state agency greening requirements.
Specifically, the project focused on developing an action plan to reduce consumption of energy, water, and paper as well as petroleum use in state vehicles. This project was performed as a subcontractor.