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Earth Matters, Inc. is a woman-owned DBE certified environmental consulting firm specializing in air quality policy, climate change, planning, and technical services for regions not attaining air quality health standards. Since forming in 1995, Earth Matters has become known for innovation and professionalism informed by
an unusual depth and breadth of knowledge and experience.

Clients include the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
state and local air quality and transportation planning agencies, the National Academy of Sciences, private industry, and agenices such as the National Forest Service. Earth Matters has also provided services to international agencies such as U.S. AID. Earth Matters also serves as a subcontractor on projects for these clients managed by other firms. Specialty areas include:

Government Sectors

  • Tracking climate change issues and informing clients of potential strategies to address them
  • Emission inventories for greenhouse gases, ozone precursors and particulate matter
  • Interaction between energy production and electric vehicles
  • Mobile Source Emissions and Control Strategies
  • Transportation/Air Quality issues
  • Transportation Conformity (strategy, rule interpretation, technical analysis);
  • Land use, transportation and air quality connection;
  • Attainment planning and control strategy development;
  • CMAQ applications, analysis and implementation
  • General conformity;
  • Air quality and emission evaluations and mobile source modeling;
  • Innovative strategies to increase transit, telecommuting, ridesharing, vanpooling,
  • Biking/walking and other alternative modes, and other transportation control strategies); and
  • Cleaner-powered vehicles

Private Sector

  • Title V Permitting Assistance
  • Dispersion Modeling (ISC, AERMOD, CALPUFF, OCD, BLP, and CTDMPLUS)
  • PSD and non-attainment NSR permitting
  • MACT, LAER and BACT control strategy development
  • Environmental Impact Reports
  • Cap and Trade Programs

General Services

  • Proposal and grant applications
  • Public presentations
  • Expert witness testimony
  • Develop and provide lively presentations and courses for the public, private companies and elected officials
  • Project management
  • Coaltion building
  • Technical writing

Earth Matters is also experienced with evaluation of climate change policies including cap and trade progams, carbon taxes, and fuel efficiency standards.

Earth Matters has four technical staff and one support person.

 

 

In the News

Financing the Transition from a Brown to a Green Global Economy

Nairobi/Monaco, 11 February 2008 - From: United Nations Environment Programme
The biggest gathering of environment ministers to take place since the Climate change progress in Bali will be happening in Monaco later this month under the theme "Mobilizing Finance for the Climate Challenge".

More than 100 ministers from across the globe are scheduled to attend the Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF) - the world's forum for environment ministers -alongside senior figures from industry and economics; science; local government; civil society, trades unions and intergovernmental bodies.

These include Tulsi Tanti, Managing Director of Indian wind energy company Suzlon; Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; and Juan Somovia, the Director-General of the International Labour Organisation.

Other key figures include Gunter Pauli, entrepreneur, businessman and founder of the Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives and an expert on nature's solutions to environmental challenges; James Cameron, founder of Climate Change Capital - an investment banking group specializing in financing a low-carbon economy; and Fernando Ibanez, Chief Executive Officer of Saguapac, one of the world's most successful and largest water cooperatives.

They will be joined by V. Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an expert on the emerging challenge of 'global dimming'.

Professor Ramanathan is leader of the Atmospheric Brown Cloud research team. It is carrying out cutting edge research on the emerging links between soot in the atmosphere and novel climatic impacts including accelerated glacier melt, reduced crop yields and shifts in rainfall patterns of the Monsoon.

The delegates will all be attending the 10th Special Session of the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum.

Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, said: "The last climate convention meeting delivered the Bali Road Map. This is the path along which over 190 countries are traveling in order to deliver a new and decisive climate deal by Copenhagen in 2009."

"Mobilizing finance, focusing markets and unleashing innovation will be central to successfully negotiating the Road Map and avoiding too many detours and dead ends," he added.

 "We are already glimpsing a transition to a low carbon society. Billions of dollars are now being invested in renewable energyand hundreds of institutions with trillions of dollars of assets are now endorsing investment principles that reflect environmental alongside social and governance concerns," said Mr. Steiner.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 

Earth Matters' vision is to help create and implement
programs that work. We believe a sense of fun, creativity, and pupose invites stakeholders to approach objectives in fresh ways that can also be more effective.

 Earth Matters' founder and president, K. Barbara Joyhas over 20 years of experience and enjoys a national reputation for technical, policy, outreach and management services. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Environmental Economics in 1985 and joined the renowned firm Systems Applications International (SAI) in 1985. By 1990 she was a senior manager and scientist responsible for transportation/air quality programs. In 1995 she formed Earth Matters with help and support of senior vice presidents of SAI and ENVIRON International Corporation. Earth Matters has since gained a considerable reputation as a reliable and creative source of services in the environmental field.