Today, having an environmentally and socially conscientious approach to your business is an integral part of being successful.
However, it is hard to know what will really make a difference — to the planet and your customers. There are so many options, programs, certifications, metrics, standards and pledges to make… but what feels true to your brand? consistent with your values? will make a difference? will provide a return on the investment? will leverage your assets? solve multiple challenges? will win over the hearts and heads of customers?
We can help.
Baleen® filters out the noise, the greenwashing and the complexity of developing an approach to doing well by doing good.
We design and build innovative, creative and engaging sustainability initiatives that improve the health of our planet and generate value for the organizations behind them.
Let’s do this.
committed, creative and experienced help
OUR SERVICES
CIRCULAR BUSINESS & SYSTEMS CREATION
Hearing buzzwords like the circular economy, resale and recommerce? We have over a decade of experience in developing custom programs that reduce the environmental impact of products by extending their useful lifetimes via resale, repairing, remaking and recycling. We will partner with you to evaluate your organization’s capacity to implement circularity into your business and help you engage with leading external partners as needed.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
Not sure where to start with using your business to make a difference in the world? We’ll help you develop a strategy and tactics that will deliver both environmental impact reduction and value to your business. We can serve as your in-house corporate sustainability team to help you devise a framework, approach, impact reduction targets, reporting methodology and cadence so your employees and customers know you’re doing your part to save our planet.
SUSTAINABLITY COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING
Do you have a complex sustainability story or product that is difficult to concisely explain? We can help you shine by creating focused, accurate and easy-to-understand writing for science-y topics to support a variety of marketing tactics such as social media posts, emails, blog posts, op-eds, websites and the like. We work with both brands and public relations firms.
RESEARCH & ANALYSIS
Need some background info, landscape research, or detailed analysis? We’ll dive deep for you by researching, analyzing and synthesizing information into content that informs and educates internal and and external audiences.
client testimonials
“Nellie is the rare blend of understanding the science and the underlaying human element of communication and change”
“Nellie provides excellent value to our company by effectively bringing both sustainability and circularity knowledge into Ergobaby in a business-minded way. She focuses on doing what is right for the planet while balancing corporate profitability. In addition, her ability to act as an independent outside expert while seamlessly integrating into company culture allows her to effectively progress our goals both internally and externally. We are proud to partner with Nellie in our sustainability journey. ”
“Working with Nellie has been a joy and a privilege. The hours we spent visioning for our business were inspiring, powerful and very enjoyable. She’s an excellent interpreter of core purpose and a skilled listener to the heart of our mission. A true midwife in the birth of our business.”
about us
Our Mission
To design and build sustainability initiatives that improve the health of the planet and benefit the organizations behind them.
OUR OUTLOOK
We believe the following:
Climate change is real, affects all of us and must be addressed irrespective of politics.
The findings of scientific research, not dogma or trends, are our guide when making decisions about how to affect the future of our planet.
Fun is important when working on hard problems because our planet cannot afford us to burn-out. The messages and programs we develop for organizations avoid preachiness, fear, judgment and shame. We strive to create engagement opportunities for your customers that are more fun than the other guy’s.
Truly successful environmental programs must deliver results for the implementing organization so that they are maintained in perpetuity. These can look like: generating organization loyalty, growing customer bases and developing new business opportunities.
One of the most powerful ways to do well by doing good is to separate economic growth from natural resource extraction to reap profits from existing products and new services.
our clients
We love to work with brands that are passionate about what they do — big or small, new or old, experienced or green. We want to help you look at your systems and assets from a different angle and consider what your approach to sustainability and change-making can be.
BIO
Dream realized… skiing White Sands National Monument, New Mexico
Hi! I’m Nellie. I am a mama, wife and founder of Baleen.
I built this company because I want to change the way corporate sustainability looks, feels and operates. I want to help brands move away from metrics that people don’t understand, non-transparent standards, fear-based threatening messages and greenwashing.
Baleen is here to help brands create innovative ways to become stewards of the natural resources that they rely on to exist; and importantly, to use their powerful voices to influence human behavior and shape the way we treat our planet. I spent nearly a decade practicing this at Patagonia, where I built and managed the award-winning program, Worn Wear.
I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Systems from UC San Diego and a Master’s Degree in Biological Oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. To learn more, check out my LinkedIn profile.
Contact
+1 (805) 798-5959
Baleen Gives Back
Through our 1% For the Planet Membership, we donate 1% of our annual sales to organizations that do important work to create positive environmental change. Learn more at www.onepercentfortheplanet.org.