Building Your Environmental Impact Plan
A Practical Approach for Business
Canopy Full-Day Workshop
Improving your business’s environmental impact can seem challenging, but it doesn’t have to be! Join Canopy staff and a slate of topical experts for a practical, results-based process to build your policies and programs. From assessing your starting point to selecting metrics to measuring and reporting your impact, you and your staff can learn how to run a better business by taking care of Kentucky’s natural resources. No matter what industry you are in or what degree of sophistication you already possess, you can leave this day-long workshop equipped to build a meaningful environmental impact plan at your company.
Skill Development
Risk Mitigation
Issue Prioritization
Planning and Budgeting
Data Management
Creating Success Metrics
Practical Implementation
Session Highlights
How an Environmental Program Can Improve Your Business
Set the foundation for the day by listening to the ways that a robust environmental impact plan can benefit your business in more traditional ways. From risk mitigation to materials protection, quality control to PR, cost savings to employee retention, you will learn about the benefits of business environmental stewardship beyond simple “warm fuzzies”.
Materiality and Reflection
Canopy staff will lead an interactive session on surveying all stakeholders in your business to determine what impact category may be right for you. Some businesses have more obvious choices, and others may need to dig into stakeholder opinions to find the right choice. Gain the tactics to be confident that you are investing in the right plan.
Focus and Problem Identification
Once you have selected an impact category, how do you know what problem to tackle within that category? Kentucky Waterways Alliance will lead you through a Kentucky-flavored example by drilling into some of the specific problems in Kentucky watershed management that could use your business’s attention.
Making a Budget and Identifying Resources
A diverse panel of Kentucky business owners give insight on how they took inventory of their unique resources and budgetary restrictions to make their programs achievable and impactful.
Data Measurement and Management
Environmental impact can sometimes feel complicated and difficult to quantify. Learn strategies for measuring and managing the numerical measures of your activities, how to use that data to make further improvements, and how to communicate those improvements to stakeholders.
Success Metrics: Carbon Accounting
See a specific example of the data management you just learned about. Some of the best carbon accounting experts in the business will lead you through reasons and strategies for measuring your carbon impact as well as tactics for maximizing the advantage you create for your business.
Topical Impact and Tactical Field Trip
Bernheim staff will lead you through an example of Canopy’s “What/Why/How” approach to our collaborative Learning Modules and then lead a hands-on field trip around Bernheim Forest to see examples of ways to implement your impact on your own properties.
Playcosystem Happy Hour
Close out your day with networking and cocktails while exploring Berheim’s unique Playcosystem spaces.
Meet Our Speakers
Paula Henson
Business Owner
Owner of Above the Dirt Garden Shop in J-town’s Historic Gaslight District, Paula Henson is living out her dream of being the crazy plant lady. With a 20-year career in the beauty industry as a hairdresser, educator, public speaker, manufacturer, distributor, and small business consultant she took a leap of faith and opened her own Garden Shop in 2023. She unites her passions of people and plants with her offerings of business, native plants, and house plant classes.
Renee Firth
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Daniel "DH" Harrison
Business Owner
Daniel “DH” Harrison was born and raised in Scott County, Kentucky. Having attended Georgetown College, DH fell in love with Craft Beer in Japan while teaching English on an exchange program. Upon returning to the U.S., he partnered with three other native Kentuckians to begin the first taproom model brewery in Lexington in 2012, Country Boy Brewing. DH has been a champion for Craft Beer in Kentucky. Serving on the board of the Kentucky Guild of Brewers, he has helped develop a thriving industry with over 80 breweries in the state. DH currently resides in Scott County with his wife and two children. In addition to leading Country Boy Brewing with his partners, DH always makes time to hunt, fish, and have a pint with everyone in the three Country Boy taprooms.
Jessica Collins
Graphic Designer
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Luke Smith
Web Developer
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