Hunt Green LLC

Hunt­Green LLC is involved in projects nation­ally and inter­na­tion­ally.  A few of our most recent projects include:

OnGo­ing Transportation

The cre­ation of a new vision for trans­porta­tion in the United States as called for in a new White Paper by Geoff War­dle and David Muyres. The paper is enti­tled Futu­rama 2.0: Mobi­liz­ing America’s Trans­porta­tion Rev­o­lu­tion, and was released at the end of August, 2009. For more infor­ma­tion, and a copy of the paper, please go to www.ongoingtransportation.com.

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Imag­ine a World

Imag­ine a World is a col­lab­o­ra­tion led by Llewellyn Wells — pre­vi­ously the VP of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions at the Rocky Moun­tain Insti­tute and prior to that, a pro­ducer of the award win­ing West Wing TV series —  to envi­sion a pos­i­tive and sus­tain­able future. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www.imagineaworldproject.com.

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Green Hotels in Argentina

Hunt­Green is part of a team that is work­ing on the devel­op­ment of seven green 5-star hotels in Argentina, includ­ing the green strat­egy, design and rec­om­men­da­tions for the local and national gov­ern­ment. The first hotel will be built in Patag­o­nia near the Glac­ier National Park.

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Agri­cul­ture, Defor­esta­tion, and Cli­mate Change

Hunt­Green is work­ing with the National Wildlife Fed­er­a­tion on their Agri­cul­ture, Defor­esta­tion and Cli­mate Change project to develop new strate­gies to reduce defor­esta­tion and the asso­ci­ated green house gas emis­sions and bio­di­ver­sity loss.  The team is engag­ing in dia­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tive research with lead­ers in the major com­modi­ties indus­tries and the finance world. The aim of the project is to iden­tify poten­tial avenues for reduc­ing the “cli­mate change foot­print” of key agri­cul­tural com­modi­ties mar­kets.  The team is for­mu­lat­ing and test­ing ideas around how avoided defor­esta­tion efforts (pre/post-REDD) might be com­ple­mented by finan­cial instru­ments. The idea being that it may take a bit more than cur­rently pro­posed pol­icy alter­na­tives to effect behav­ioral change.

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Earth Audit

While the abil­ity of the Inter­net to quickly syn­the­size spa­tial data (e.g. Google Earth) and coor­di­nate user-added con­tent (e.g. Wikipedia) has been well demon­strated, the poten­tial power and speed of these tools has yet to be fully har­nessed for envi­ron­men­tal pur­poses. Earth–Audit will func­tion as an engine that inputs freely avail­able datasets from a vari­ety of part­ners, uses sci­en­tific algo­rithms to derive use­ful con­tent from these data, and allows users to inter­act with the con­tent via Web 2.0 tech­nol­ogy.  Impor­tantly, Earth Audit’s con­tent will con­tin­u­ally update, as new and bet­ter data becomes available. There is a crit­i­cal need for Earth Audit and sim­i­lar tools to map land cover, forests, bio­di­ver­sity, car­bon, and other crit­i­cal assets to enable users to quickly track changes in envi­ron­men­tal resources over time to facil­i­tate emerg­ing car­bon and other mar­kets and pol­icy compliance. A pre­lim­i­nary web­site is at www.earthaudit.org.

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Cli­mate Lab

Rec­og­niz­ing that if we hope to find solu­tions to cli­mate change at the speed and scale that sci­ence tells us is nec­es­sary — we need to col­lab­o­rate, share infor­ma­tion and learn from each oth­ers’ suc­cesses and fail­ures at a com­men­su­rate speed and scale. Cli­mate Lab is a non­par­ti­san non­profit orga­ni­za­tion whose mis­sion is to fos­ter col­lab­o­ra­tion and knowl­edge shar­ing with web-based tools to accel­er­ate solu­tions to cli­mate change. On March 2, 2009, Cli­mate Lab beta-launched http://climatelab.org, a pub­lic wiki for cli­mate change. Cli­mate Lab’s wiki tech­nol­ogy allows pol­icy experts, arm­chair activists, engi­neers, aca­d­e­mics and the gen­eral pub­lic to define a com­mon lan­guage, iden­tify the most rel­e­vant infor­ma­tion, and dis­cover bet­ter ways of work­ing together. Suzanne Hunt is a mem­ber of Cli­mate Lab’s Board of Directors.