You know you need to focus on sustainability climate action the environment but you’re not sure where to start.

Measure, track, and analyze your business’s water use, energy use, carbon emissions, waste streams and other key metrics. 

You’ll be able to identify opportunities to increase efficiency, reduce environmental impacts, and lower costs. 

Calculate and interpret the carbon footprint associated with your business.

This can include Scope 1 (direct emissions), Scope 2 (indirect emissions), and Scope 3 (supply chain emissions).

You’ll be able to use this information to inform sustainability initiatives, emissions reductions, carbon offset purchases, and carbon neutral goals.  

Integrate sustainability into your corporate values and operations through a comprehensive and streamlined sustainability plan.

Our team will work with you to develop specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals.

You’ll be able to focus on elevating the environmental and social impact of your business. 

Clients, investors, and consumers expect businesses to be transparent about their impact and values in areas including environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG).

Take a holistic approach to sustainability and work with us to produce annual reports that communicate this crucial data and information to your company’s valued stakeholders.

You’ll be able to inform and apply environmental impact data, employee support metrics, community engagement and social initiatives, internal corporate governance structures, and more. 

Develop an enhanced understanding of your business’s internal systems and/or its position within local, national, and global systems.

Identify key leverage points to optimize positive impact and build resilience. 

You’ll be able to gain insight into specific system dynamics to inform your planning and operations.

Demonstrate your commitment to sustainability and transparency by applying for third-party certifications with our guidance. 

• B Corp 
• USDA Organic 
• Fair Trade 
• Non-GMO project 
• 1% for the Planet 
• LEED Certification 

and more! 

Facilitated processes make time for relationships and trust to grow. Facilitation allows voices to be represented, decorum to be maintained, and solutions to be vetted.

Facilitated conversations enable sound decision making and engagement on issues such as land use, conservation, climate change, infrastructure, and sustainable, resilient communities.

You’ll see how neutral party facilitated processes free you up to participate fully and continue the conversation even when priorities diverge or issues are tough.

The ability to clearly communicate the relevance and impact of science is more important than ever.

It enhances rather than clouds decision making and, when done well, can remove confusion and controversy.

Ultimately, you’ll be able to increase awareness, understanding, and application of science in making and communicating sound policy decisions.

Public meetings engage a wide audience and allow for information sharing,increased awareness, input, and discussion on an issue or proposal.

Securing a neutral party allows the convener to participate more fully and effectively while engaging interest groups, gathering public input, and building community consensus.

We also build agendas, create surveys, conduct focus groups and interviews, as well as take the notes and summarize key takeaways from your event.

When done well, you’ll be able to build a stronger community with meaningful engagement.

It makes a lot of sense to identify and build upon assets already existing in any given community.

When we mobilize people and organizations, the key is to tap into existing structures, relationships, and shared history.

Starting with a community’s common interest and history can launch a more resilient community response to change or a crises.

Confidently apply social marketing to inform campaigns to foster behavior change and adoption of desired actions.

Engage more effectively by understanding people’s attitudes and barriers that influence their actions and behaviors.

Apply CBSM tools and strategies to develop information-based approaches that foster sustainable behavior change.

Identify infrastructure concerns, assess and rank risks and opportunities, and examine your preparedness for climate driven events or other emergencies.

For small cities or jurisdictions, examine options from a short list of the best ways to prepare, adapt, and mitigate for changes in climate and the impacts.

Time and resource spent in proper planning and prevention can reduce the impacts of a catastrophe especially for vulnerable populations.

Determine what your significant sources of air pollutants are and target regulatory actions.

Examine emissions over time and conduct periodic updates to measure improvements or trends.

Measuring emissions creates information that can raise public awareness of the need for pollution controls and bolder climate change initiatives.

Communicating essential information about climate change requires finesse so that people understand and accept the possible impacts across society.

Bridge the gap between the science and research and what communities need to know to be proactive about climate change risks and impacts.

The impacts of climate change will be felt differently in different economic sectors and by region. Forecasting potential climate change impacts prepares communities and organizations for the changes to their lives and livelihoods.

When the weather is aggregated over years and years, it’s clear that our climate is changing. What communities do about it will determine their future resilience.

Measurement and data provide crucial clues about future conditions in a climate-changed world.

Making sense of that data can inform policy and actions that help organizations to adapt to and mitigate for climate risk and the adaptation that will be required with climate change.

Climate change is an amplifier. It makes weather events longer, more damaging, more intense, and more dangerous.

Meeting basic community needs such as providing safe drinking water, fire and drought prevention, infrastructure protection and maintenance, and public health concerns become more complex.

Applying best practices, we can help communities and organizations identify and integrate adaptation strategies, consider potential alternatives, and anticipate current and future threats resulting from the changing climate.

Knowing your responsibilities and staying ahead of changing regulatory requirements allows your operations to move forward with consistency and  predictability.

• NPDES stormwater compliance: Comply with requirements and prevent stormwater runoff from washing harmful pollutants into local surface waters.
• Waste management, minimization, and beneficial reuse: reduce costs and potential liability related to non-hazardous and hazardous wastes. Reduce or eliminate wastes.
• Regulatory analysis: Assess facility compliance, address “gaps” and develop strategies for sustained compliance.
• Commercial and industrial environmental compliance: Ensure operations are compliant and protect human health and the environment. Minimize compliance costs and maximize operating flexibility,

Our team stays on top of the current and upcoming environmental requirements. We can assist you with compiling reports, applying for and renewing permits, and effectively engaging regulatory agencies.

Be proactive and get ahead of both documentation and system design to ensure your projects meet requirements and go as planned.

Examine, adjust, and prioritize plans on an ongoing basis.

Peak has expertise in value engineering and design review, which will likely save time, money, and keep projects rolling forward smoothly.

Maintenance of stormwater infrastructure is a regulatory mandate and is essential to maintaining water quality.

Landowners, businesses, and homeowner and condo associations (HOA and CA) get the expertise they need with qualified stormwater inspections.

We also work extensively with municipalities that need assistance catching up on a backlog of stormwater inspections.

We can complete reserve studies on stormwater infrastructure and conduct stormwater education for HOAs.

You can count on our specialized expertise in stormwater inspections to provide baseline information that guides stormwater facility plans, maintenance, and budgets.

It can be hard to get qualified, objective, and reliable technical, science, and field expertise. Our team is here to help you.

• Water quality testing: Adverse impacts to water quality can impair human health and the environment and get you into regulatory hot water. We provide sampling and analysis for permit compliance, source identification, baseline studies, wastewater treatment performance assessment and many other applications Testing provides the data required for better decision making.
• Stormwater inspections: Our services include compliance reporting, safety and trespass analysis, maintenance evaluation and cost estimation, sediment sampling and disposal analysis, vegetation management plans, and habitat impact evaluation
• Habitat assessments: Assess the presence, abundance, fitness, or productivity of wildlife populations and their ability to survive.
• Aquatic surveys: Protect, restore, and manage fish populations with sound science and data collection, and inform fish conservation and management practices in aquatic ecosystems.
• HIP (Homeowner Incentive Program): Lake Whatcom landowners can get help planning projects that protect the lake, reduce phosphorus, and enhance property values.
• GIS mapping: Visualize, analyze, and interpret spatial data. See and understand patterns, recognize relationships, and make better, more-informed decisions. ​

Move confidently forward with Peak’s help and areas of expertise.

Plan, design, manage, and nurture built and natural environments.

Today, communities are increasingly concerned about the environment and sustainably designed buildings and open spaces.

Bring to life projects informed by mapping and landscape architecture to strengthen communities by enhancing the spaces we inhabit.