Overview

Silver Lining Institute works with businesses to improve environmental performance in ways that increase profitability and enhance competitive advantage through a market-based approach to environmental sustainability. We simulate outcomes of land management initiatives, development projects and adaptive management practices prior to physical implementation, which maximizes client return on conservation investment. Ecological modeling helps companies create resource management plans so when they think about development they are able to see and understand to where to divest and where to employ sustainability initiatives to maximize benefits on which they depend. Business leaders recognize that natural resources are strategic assets that must be managed like any other critical capital asset. Life depends on healthy and functioning ecosystems, which produce goods and services that underpin our economy. The stock of natural assets can be thought of as ‘natural capital.’ Silver Lining Institute supports business efforts to integrate the value of natural capital into performance strategy, operations, accounting, and risk analysis by offering access to best practice examples, guidance, tools, connections to experts and potential partners from both the public and private sector.