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Catalysts

Creative Eco-Catalysts has highly experienced environmental scientists, green marketing and cultural change agents ready to serve you. We build our team on-demand, tailored to your needs. Partnering organizations are listed below.


Chief Eco-Catalyst: Allison Quaid


  • Allison creates compelling social marketing campaigns that result in environmental sustainability by combining environmental science, behavior change strategies, and entertainment education. 


  • Over the past fifteen years, Allison has worked with over 500 businesses, local governments and non-profit organizations to successfully green their operations.  Areas include energy efficiency, renewable energy, environmentally-responsible procurement, green building, sustainable transportation, greenhouse gas emission inventories and climate action plans, waste management, and natural resource conservation. 

  • Developed and executed communication strategies (print, audio, case studies, internet, media, workshops, summits) for promoting energy efficiency among companies, organizations and governmental agencies in California while at Flex Your Power, and for companies and not-for-profit organizations.

  • Allison excels at developing several synergistic partnerships among business, non-profit and government organizations.  She is a Steering Committee member of the Business Council on Climate Change, on the Board of Strategic Energy Innovations, a co-founder of Bay Area Climate Solutions, and she recently served as the Executive Director of the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, a multi-sector forum that advances solutions for promoting the sustainability of the San Francisco Bay Area.

  • Allison has consulted to the World Bank and USAID on protecting biological hot spots, multi-lateral resource protection programs and urban sustainability indicators. She is a LEED certified professional.  Allison holds a B.S. in Environmental Science and a Masters in Urban and Environmental Public Policy.

  • Designed and installed outdoor public art which builds environmental stewardship, art, and community in San Francisco. Two recent installations, Community Action Trees and Global Mourning, reached over 1,000 people.


Partnering organizations:

We partner with firms that are the leading experts in their fields, with proven track records for delivering high quality products. 

 

Digital Hive, green business strategy and green graphic design
Gigantic Idea Studio, social marketing and communication experts

Common Current, sustainability consultants

Dig-In, sustainability consulting firm

Wallace Partners, environmental governance systems

Eric Corey Freed, organicarchitect
Beth Grossman, creative consultant

Eco-Strategy Group, business sustainability strategy

Judith Shelby Lang, eco-artist
Elmwood Consulting, sustainability consultant and facilitator

TechStrategy Partners, business and financial consultants

Pix n Stones, video production



 

 


 

Expect experience, efficiency and creativity when working with us.

~ Allison Quaid



Click here to see Allison speak about the brand value of greening at the International Advertising Association's meeting.