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How EcoPractices® Helps Scale Conservation
Sustainability risk management starts with identifying and understanding risks and opportunities associated with value chain emissions. On-farm and in-field management play a role in setting reduction targets and tracking performance around all partners and parties for supply chain activities essential for greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting. With our EcoPractices platform®, Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC) provides third-party verification and quantification that fulfills the guidelines of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol for assessing Scope 3 emissions.
Read More Gogo’s Bee Company – A Sweet Business
An apiarist (honey beekeeper) for over 40 years, I am the creator and owner of Gogo’s Bee Company. My passion for beekeeping all started with the pursuit of my beekeeping merit badge as a Boy Scout.
Read More Three-Way Partnership To Scale Verification of Sustainability Practices
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa – Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC) is announcing its collaboration with FluroSat and TerrAvion in an effort to support scale of agricultural conservation. Powered by the EcoPractices® platform, SEC provides sustainability risk management services such as third-party verification and quantification for the consumer-packaged goods and food supply chain sectors. To drive environmental…
Read More Sustainable Environmental Consultants Wins Danone ‘Innovation Award’
Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC) powered by EcoPractices® was awarded the ‘Innovation Award’ by Danone North America at their sixth annual Dairy Forum in February in San Diego, California.
Read More Iowa Farmers Build Bioreactors Using Repurposed Ash Trees
Using wood chips from trees decimated by the emerald ash borer, two Iowa companies have partnered to install edge-of-field conservation bioreactors, designed to filter nutrients and benefit Iowa’s water quality.
Read More Growers Edge Financial and Sustainable Environmental Consultants to Deliver Sustainability Risk Management Solutions
Growers Edge will leverage SEC’s EcoPractices® platform, which assesses value chain sustainability risk and provides independent, third-party verification for growers, as well as food and beverage companies. The collaboration will allow the Growers Edge fintech analytics platform to accurately assess value chain sustainability risk and track environmental impact to reduce sustainability risks from farm to fork.
Read More Two Des Moines Based Companies Give Local Trees a Second Life
Wright Outdoor Solutions and Sustainable Environmental Consultants, two companies headquartered out of West Des Moines, Iowa, have partnered to provide sustainable solutions for local wood waste by producing mulch and building bioreactors.
Read More Sustainable Environmental Consultants Rolls Out EcoPractices 3.0
Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC), a leader in providing innovative environmental responsibility solutions, announces the rollout of EcoPractices® 3.0. EcoPractices is SEC’s independent, third-party verification and validation platform that uses science with state-of-the-art technology to assess supply chain sustainability risk and quantify key sustainability performance indicators. The platform provides food organizations with a data-driven solution to reach its sustainability and regenerative goals.
Read More Sustainable Environmental Consultants Launches New Website
Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC), an innovative sustainability solutions provider, is pleased to announce the launch of its new website at sustainableenviro.com. SEC has recently organized its portfolio of service offerings into three divisions, including Sustainability Risk Management, Agricultural Compliance and Engineering, and Erosion Control.
Read More Doug McCorkle and Gabe McNunn Join Sustainable Environmental Consultants
Sustainable Environmental Consultants (SEC), a leader in providing innovative environmental responsibility solutions throughs its three divisions of Sustainability Risk Management, Agricultural Engineering and Compliance and Erosion Control, is pleased to announce Doug McCorkle, Ph.D. and Gabe McNunn, Ph.D., have joined the team as chief science officer and data science engineer respectively.
Read More Danone North America Puts a Stake in the Ground with Commitment to Regenerative Agriculture and Soil Health Research Collaboration with Renowned Research Partners
Originally released from Danone North America 3.7.2018. Brings together a ‘dream team’ of expertise in the study of soil health, applicable to all agricultural systems in The Dannon Pledge portfolio of brands Begins with research that will spur transformation to support best-in-class soil health programs with experts and academics to benefit our farms and…
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