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strategy

Get a sustainability strategy customized to your campus

IMPLEMENTATION

Get someone in your corner who can support you fully

reporting

Get accurate & credible reports done for you

i need help with strategy

Get a sustainability strategy customized to your campus

You have a sustainability mandate but not enough capacity, expertise, or political capital to act on it alone. You may not even know where to start.

Or you have started and hit the wall of competing priorities, institutional politics, and a team that is already stretched thin.

You need someone to write your institution-specific sustainability strategy designed around your campus that considers your constraints, your decision-makers, and your goals.

You'll get a clear roadmap with sequenced priorities, delegated owners, and realistic timelines that your team can actually follow through on.

What this includes:

  • Sustainability strategy development

    Built around your goals, your constraints, and how your campus actually operates and designed to move from plan to action, not sit on a shelf.

  • Climate action planning

    A structured plan for reducing your institution's environmental footprint that connects emissions targets to operations, budget cycles, and institutional decision-making while remaining practical enough for your team to implement.

  • Stakeholder and leadership engagement

    Support for navigating the internal politics of sustainability work and preparing leadership presentations, building the business case for Finance and the board, and engaging the stakeholders whose cooperation you need to move things forward.

i need help with IMPLEMENTATION

Get someone in your corner who can support you fully

You have a plan. Or a mandate. Or a board presentation next month and no clear path to what comes after.

What you need is not another consultant who delivers a document and disappears. You need someone who stays involved, does the work, and is available when new challenges come up.

I work alongside institutions as a fractional sustainability director, like showing up as a strategic partner, doing the technical work, writing grants, and connecting you to peer institutions through the Sustainable Campus Collaborative.

Some clients retain me on an ongoing basis. Others bring me in for specific projects as they come up.

Either way, having an experienced sustainability expert in your corner changes what is possible.

What this includes:

  • Ongoing advisory retainer

    A flexible ongoing relationship where I act as your institution's sustainability expert on call for strategic advice, decision support, stakeholder preparation, and whatever comes up.

  • Implementation support for existing plans

    If you already have a sustainability strategy or climate action plan that has stalled, I can help you get it moving again by diagnosing what went wrong, rebuilding momentum, and putting the structures in place that keep progress moving forward.

  • Project management

    End-to-end management of sustainability projects and initiatives, keeping stakeholders aligned, timelines on track, and deliverables on schedule so the work actually gets done without falling entirely on your shoulders.

  • Grant writing and funding strategy

    Identification of grant opportunities aligned to your institution's priorities, followed by the development and submission of strong, well-positioned applications.

  • Coalition building and partnerships

    Help identifying and developing partnerships with peer institutions, industry, government, and community organizations that can accelerate your sustainability goals, open up collective funding opportunities, and reduce the cost of doing the work alone.

i need help with REPORTING

Get accurate & credible sustainability reports done for you

STARS reporting, GHG inventories, and government frameworks are time-consuming, technically complex, and most institutions have never done them before.

You are expected to deliver credible results with no internal experience to draw on and no one to ask.

You need someone to handle the full process, from data collection, gap analysis, narrative writing, and submission. Your data gaps are not a problem. They are where we start.

And because I understand the frameworks deeply, I can help you position your institution's progress honestly and compellingly, not just get you across the finish line.

What this includes:

  • AASHE STARS reporting

    Full support from start to submission, including data collection, gap analysis, credit-by-credit narrative writing, and final submission.

  • GHG emissions inventory

    A credible, methodology-compliant greenhouse gas inventory that establishes your baseline and gives you the data you need to set targets, track progress, and report with confidence.

  • Energy benchmarking and analysis

    An analysis of your institution's energy performance against comparable post-secondary institutions, identifying where you are losing ground and where the biggest opportunities for reduction and cost savings exist.

  • Annual sustainability reporting

    Support for producing an annual sustainability report that communicates progress clearly to internal and external audiences, like leadership, board, funders, students, and the public.

Meet Donald Jantz

turning ambition into action

After 20 years working with post-secondary institutions, Donald kept seeing a gap between sustainability ambition and meaningful action in institutions, where sustainability exists as a communications exercise rather than an operational and strategic reality.

Too many post-secondary institutions have sustainability goals that live in reports that sit on shelves, and not in actions. Donald helps institutions close that gap.

Now Donald works with leading educational institutions across Canada and the U.S. to measure, manage, report and implement sustainability on campus.

let's talk about your campus

Ready to turn your sustainability goals into action?

Whether you have a clear mandate and need help executing it, a reporting deadline looming, or you are simply not sure where to start, a 30-minute conversation with Donald Jantz will clarify everything.