Carpe Diem - Western Water & Climate Change Status: Current Purpose: Climate changes in the western United States are already affecting western water through warming (more precipitation falling as rain instead of snow), and extreme weather events (flooding and long-term drought.) Even if carbon emissions were immediately capped at current levels, the West will continue to warm and the weather will become increasingly unpredictable. The West's water infrastructure, management systems, laws and policies are based on two assumptions: First, that there will be predictable big winter snowpacks (storage) followed by spring run-off. Second, that additional supplies of inexpensive water can always be found. Climate change turns these assumptions on their head. Building on and connecting current work, Exloco's Carpe Diem: Western Water & Climate Change project will create the strategic framework needed by the progressive western water community to effectively address the impacts of climate change on their river basins and state. With start-up funding from the Bullitt, Goldman, Wilburforce foundations, the Alki Fund of the Tides Foundation, individual donors, and with support from the Energy Foundation and King County (Seattle) the Project was launched in Fall 2007. Project Team:
Sarah Bates, Western Progress
Don Elder, River Network
Holly Hartmann, CLIMAS, University of Arizona
Lillian Kawasaki, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power
Doug Kenney, University of Colorado, Boulder
Steve Malloch, National Wildlife Federation
Bill Mitchell, Alki Fund/Tides Foundation
Fran Spivy Weber, California States Water Resources Board
Jennifer Sokolove, Compton Foundation
Anne Watkins, Office of the State Engineer, New Mexico
Steve Whitney, Bullitt Foundation
Kimery Wiltshire, Exloco, Project Lead Exloco role: Project incubation, development and management; executive leadership For additional project information - www.exloco.org/reports

Girl Scouts
www.GirlScoutsSavetheBay.org
www.Exloco/reports
Girl Scouts Save the Bay, Leader Magazine Winter 2007 Status: In operation Purpose: Girls Scouts Save the Bay (GSSTB) is the Girl Scouts of San Francisco Bay Area's "bold audacious project "  — girls, their families, neighbors and adult leaders working to protect and restore the San Francisco Bay. GSSTB leads the Girl Scouting movement supporting girls and the 100,000 Bay Area Girl Scout community in learning about critical issues that affect their home, their families and the future — and how they can make a difference now and over their lifetime. Now entering its second year of programs, the projects is poised to expand state-wide. Exloco role: Strategic, program and business development; marketing and fund development; start-up executive staffing.

SBAR — Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings
www.SustainabilityRatings.com
www.Exloco.org/Projects (for project summary) Status: In operation Purpose: Sustainable Business Achievement Ratings (S-BAR) is the first comprehensive system with a market-based, broadly applicable, and transparent means of assessing a company's environmental, economic and social performance. S-BAR is creating a standards framework that incorporates and builds on learnings and systems created over the past two decades by hundreds of nonprofit organizations, trade associations, academic institutions, and government agencies. In the process, S-BAR creates a level playing field — a unified calculus that answers the questions: "How good is 'good enough' "  "How good are we now" and "What will it take for us to be viewed credibly as a 'sustainable business' ". Exloco role: Strategic and fund development; member of governing team.

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