Hot Sky Consulting advises government, business, and civil society clients seeking innovative approaches to achieving deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It does so by:▸ Applying extensive executive, policy, project development, program design, and technical experience in the following fields: - Carbon offsets - Greenhouse gas accounting - Energy efficiency - Renewable energy - Utility integrated resource planning▸ Motivating technology and institutional transformation by: - Demonstrating the extreme potency of greenhouse gases - Making the nebulous emissions of a gas seem tangible - Placing a changed climate into meaningful perspective - Developing organizational understanding of the implications of and opportunities created by a low carbon future▸ Creating a vision for a low carbon future: Science tells us that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by mid-century to prevent our economy from being overwhelmed by catastrophic climate change. This constraint creates a fixed quantity of allowable future annual emissions. This limit will create difficult trade offs between and amongst technologies and end uses. Hot Sky Consulting helps its clients to understand: 1) these trade offs in order to avoid misguided investments, and 2) a vision of "what fits" as regards technology for a carbon constrained world.▸ Avoiding “climate stranded investments:" Most of the investments that we currently make -- buildings, power plants, transportation infrastructure, and urban design -- are long-lived and will contribute to our carbon footprint at mid-century. As a society, it is essential that we take this future carbon-constrained world into account when making decisions today in order to avoid investments that will not be usable in that future. Hot Sky Consulting helps its clients to develop tools for assessing, and prepares reports on, avoiding "climate stranded investments."

▸ Start-up CEO for the nation's first carbon offset enterprise▸ Strategically leveraged small non-profit into the second-most recognized carbon offset provider in the world▸ Acquired then-largest portfolio of carbon offsets recognized by a US GHG regulatory scheme▸ Developed top-rated voluntary carbon offset programs for business and consumers▸ Pioneered industry-replicated processes for offset qualification, quantification, and contracting▸ Established organization as a key participant in national and international debate on offsets▸ Financial excellence: outstanding audits, consistent revenue growth, built six-month reserve▸ Built national organization on state-based foundation: recruited excellent Board and successor

▸ Facilitated corporate climate strategies for utility, petroleum, and manufacturing clients▸ Prepared feasibility study on major international forest conservation/management offset project▸ Created early action crediting proposal to Congress for a national sustainable industry CEO group

▸ As CEO, managed start-up of a Joint Operating Agency of 8 Washington consumer-owned utilities▸ Negotiated $65 million in conservation and wind contracts on a fast track▸ Conducted largest municipal bond sale to fund energy conservation to date ($38 million)▸ Developed and operated full spectrum of residential, commercial, and industrial efficiency programs.▸ Tripled historical energy saved per dollar invested, earning $4 million bonus for organization▸ Turned $300,000 in start-up investment into $21 million in net financial benefits