projects

The Lao Elephant Festival is the nation's largest festival. Ecotone Creative was hired to perform an audit of the 5 Festivals to date and assess the full range of its strengths and weaknesses. We engaged the Elephant Festival’s key stakeholders in a conversation about it's future. From this research we successfully built consensus between the non-profit, public and private stakeholders for a sustainable plan for the future of the festival that met their shared financial, organizational and mission goals. This proposal was accepted by the Mayor of Sayaboury Province and the project was presented at the 2012 Harvard Social Enterprise Conference.

West Coast Green Conference & Expo was the preeminent symposium on green innovation from 2006-2011. We worked with this dynamic, ground-breaking organization to connect the nation's most innovative resources and ideas to visionary thinkers and innovators who could put them into action- a community of 10,000 annual attendees. Our projects spanned the entire range of the organization's functions including executive level marketing, program development, systems analysis and database design, web design, branding and business development.

The Path is a self-guided walking tour in the historic mill city of Lawrence, MA. New Relic Media produced a series of videos that tell a story about two immigrant girls who were caught in the largest industrial disaster of it’s time 150 years ago and wove them into a physical walking tour along the banks of Lawrence's downtown river walk.  Ecotone Creative planned the public launch party and official ribbon cutting ceremony for the release of this public education program.

Laos’ government’s relocated three distinct ethnic groups in 1997 into Phoudindaeng Village. When Kleiwerks International arrived in 2002, cultural differences challenged the village. Today, the villagers have gone on to create a seed bank, a youth center and various other projects using natural building techniques brought by the Kleiwerks International team and traditional methods of villagers. Ecotone Creative returned to help tell the story.

Don Suntharothok has undertaken a series of visionary, artistic projects to establish an artistic element in the city of Nongkhai Thailand. His vision for this rapidly growing city is that it will embrace artistic Thai styles to set itself apart from other cities in the region that have grown without planning, style and substance. Ecotone Creative worked with Mr. Suntharothok to document his work and market it in Thailand.

Green Bear Group is a full-service marketing company providing organizations focused on clean technology and sustainability with branding and product/service promotion to key audiences. We work with the Green Bear Group on systems and methodology development that increases the efficiency of their internal processes, allowing them more concentrated time with their client

Salvaje Corazon is a world-class travel, art and exploration company that operates in Chilean Patagonia. We worked on the ground in Coyhaique, Chile to completely renovate the business strategy, systems, marketing, and service development and continued consult Salvaje Corazon remotely on these fronts through successful implementation.

This project united the premier conference on green building, its audience of 14,000 leaders and the design mastery of Design Ecology’s Josiah Cain. The result was an integrative show garden that demonstrated solutions to the major urban problem of storm water runoff. The elegant water filtration design integrated native plants, bamboo structures, a suspended earthen platform and a floating island ecosystem. Over the short course of the garden’s demonstration, the floating islands alone attracted seals, birds, local kayakers and even Adam Werbach.This project united the premier conference on green building, its audience of 14,000 leaders and the design mastery of Design Ecology’s Josiah Cain. The result was an integrative show garden that demonstrated solutions to the major urban problem of storm water runoff.

Partnering the USEPA’s Tribal Commission with West Coast Green, tribal leaders from across the North West were supported in gathering, learning and networking resources that could assist in the green renovation and planning for their inadequate housing. Full travel and attendance scholarships were secured for 50 tribal members, a summit was organized and held to address their needs, and both the EPA and the Tribal members hailed the partnership as the largest success of the year related to solving their housing crises.

Developing a relationship through Green For All Founder Van Jones, Karen and Chloe organized West Coast Green’s participation in their first ever “Green Jobs For All” awareness day. Through this partnership 10 inner city youth were awarded scholarships to the conference, including attendance at Al Gore’s keynote address, and were organized to collect signatures from West Coast Green’s 11,000 attendees toward Green For All’s nation wide petition program that led the groundwork for the Federal Green Jobs Recovery Act.

Principal Chloe Byruck worked with HKIT Architects on the architectural construction documents and specifications for a Glide Memorial Church 9-story housing complex for formerly homeless people in the Tenderloin.

Principal Karen Jackson worked with the San Francisco Institute of Architecture on an energy audit, green renovation and restoration feasibility study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and Taliesin West campus’. In coordination with the Taliesin School of Architecture and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, recommendations were made to roll out energy and cost saving measures while strategically reinvesting annual savings into further renovations. Over a ten year period, an initial investment of $2,000, with savings reinvested each year, would create an annual savings of $75,000 beginning in year 11.

Principal Chloe Byruck founded and ran the University's first, only and ongoing student cooperative of 44 students and 22 residents. She acquired financial, programmatic and legal support from the administration and organized and promoted workshops and events for students and faculty.