Sustainability Technology

Green & Renewable Technologies, Waste Management, Recycling, Environmental Sustainability

With extensive experience in energy, technology, and commodity transportation management, Summer Research brings a wealth of experience directly relevant to green and renewable industries.

We coordinated an economic analysis of alternative waste management techniques – including landfill, bulk sales of recyclables, and local reuse through composting and shredding of refuse.   In this project, we guided local leaders in recycling, waste management professionals, and business students who analyzed and identified the most effective combination of source separation, transportation of recyclable and non-recyclable commodities, and remanufacture and reclamation of reusable commodities for a community transfer station facility located in a resort community.  This type of collaboration was somewhat new because it cut across the traditional divide between waste-hauling and recycling.  And it was particularly effective in addressing the specific needs of mountain communities that face different economic factors surrounding recycling.

We created the moniker Recycling 2.0 to represent the brand position of this new collaboration.  And we used it as part of a public relations campaign to support an organics recycling and re-use contractor and successfully provided key contributions towards their renewing a critical revenue generating contract. 

Summer Research wrote a grant application for the installation of an educational solar panel installation at the Greater Yellowstone Geotourism Center, sponsored in part through the support of National Geographic.  The grant would help the Greater Yellowstone Geotourism center demonstrate sustainable energy practice to visitors from around the globe.

When we started these projects, green professionals couldn’t understand how we could help them.  Once again, Summer Research found a way to make the pieces fit and create opportunity where traditionalists saw none before.  We demonstrated that extensive experience in energy, technology, and commodity transportation management is directly relevant to the challenges facing green and renewable industries today.