GreenLight Solutions Foundation is a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit. We teach and implement sustainability through our Sustainability Seminar Series, Community Mixers, and Student-Led Projects. We make sustainability inclusive to the local business community, creating solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.
Current Projects
- Shape Up US – The Shape Up US Project Team will focus on educating K-5th grade families on nutrition, environmental, and holistic wellbeing by creating a workbook promoting environmentally conscious families, homes, and schools.
- Circular Classroom – The Circular Classroom Project Team will present to underserved highschools to give hands -on demonstrations of our Protocycler and 3D Printer, educating on sustainability and the circular economy.
- Utopia Smart Cities – The Utopia Smart City Project Team will work with app developers to create sustainable behavior gamification incentivizing crypto currency, with supporting outreach messaging, infographics, a Systems Dynamics Model, and a System Diagram.
- FOR Energy – The FOR Energy Project Team will support promotional events and social media efforts to expand energy efficiency in the valley.
- Rosebird Farms – The Rosebird Farms Project Team will perform a comprehensive literature review of rural food hubs, food delivery, and CSAs to incorporate into their mobile CSA grocery store.
- Dynamic – The Dynamic Project Team will work with Dynamic RE to add sustainability curriculum and local resources to their real estate software.
- Mtuli Foundation – The Mtuli Foundation Project Team will research sustainable irrigation and agricultural methods and provide outreach to establish strategic partnerships.
Learn about our projects at our Solutioneer Showcase in April!
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GreenLight Project Porfolio
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GreenLight has partnered over 300 students with more than 40 businesses to implement sustainable business solutions. Collectively, our team has donated more than 29,000 volunteer hours to local businesses
Testimonials
What are our Project Partners saying about GreenLight?
“Greenlight Solutions is a great concept that matches real world need with skilled students who are looking to gain real world sustainability “chops.” It’s a win-win — but the biggest winner might be the planet. I don’t see a reason why this simple concept can’t be easily replicated a thousand times at other colleges and universities around the world.”
“GreenLight Solutions puts forth a genuine effort to learn and collaborate on growing people and their environment. GreenLight is resilient, unyielding, persistent, determined and strong.”
“GreenLight Solutions helped to make a significant impact in how we manage our resource yard and communicate our sustainability goals to event attendees. The students were hard-working and insightful, often helping us uncover us new ways to be eco-conscious!”
“It’s great to have a dedicated group of people looking at a sustainability challenge that we don’t have the resources or capacity to pursue. GreenLight is a great organization that helps small business and organizations solve sustainability challenges while fostering a collaborative approach to real world solutions! I fully support the mission and vision of GreenLight Solutions.”
“GreenLight Solutions was a pleasure to work with! Thank you GreenLight Solutions for helping our organization understand the impacts of climate change on our infrastructure.”
“Love working with you all. Three words to describe GreenLight Solutions are focused, dynamic, & excited.
“We partnered with GreenLight Solutions to promote the Phoenix Solar Co-op. They helped us to spread the word about neighbors in Phoenix coming together to go solar as a group. The students quickly learned to present information about solar to the public. They developed and implemented a marketing plan over email, social media and in-person (pre-COVID).”
What are students saying about GreenLight?
“GreenLight is a geat place to interact and make friends, learn working on real life projects, hone your managerial and team work skills while balancing work and study.”
“I really enjoyed the process of working on the project throughout the semester. The GreenLight GuideLines and Leadership Team where instrumental in my group’s success.”
“My time with GreenLight has truly been one of the highlights of my college career. I joined during my Sophomore year hoping to gain some professional skills that would help me in the business world, and I got so much more than that! Literally every role I’ve had within GreenLight has helped prepare me for life after graduation.”
“I was blown away by the order and depth of the organization. This is not simply a student club. This is a highly-organized, hierarchical team that enables students to gain real-world applicable experience. GLS has enhanced my collegiate experience and expanded my knowledge of sustainability outside the classroom.”
“GreenLight has been such a value add to my college experience—even as a junior. This is my first semester in the organization, and my project team and interactions with leadership have been stellar. I’ve been looking for ways to get involved with ‘green’ organizations on campus as a business sustainability major, and GreenLight has hands down been what I’ve been looking for.”
“Being a part of Greenlight topped off my senior year! I couldn’t have been more enthused to build on my professional skills and apply both sustainability and urban planning knowledge to gain a fruitful experience of immediate impact. The projects each semester were exciting and fresh, motivating me to take on new challenges and solve them from a systems thinking perspective.”
“Working with GreenLight Solutions during my undergraduate career provided me with invaluable, hands-on experience with clients that the classroom would have never been able to replicate.”
Recent Accomplishments
Collect the Cap Circular Economy Initiative
Our world is full of finite natural resources, and it takes these resources to create everything in our economies; currently, such as water and fossil fuels. Needless to say, everything we have is because of [...]
Strengthening Food Security in Phoenix Metro
The Fresh Food Collaboration Movement (FFC) is a collaborative effort between Green Living Magazine and Urban Farming Education. The movement seeks to alleviate food scarcity and food access issues caused by the COVID-19 outbreak. They [...]
Improving Energy Efficiency for Utopia Smart City
Urban communities are facing many challenges when it comes to integrating sustainability with day to day living. Large cities mean more urban sprawl--which means more cars, longer travel times, and therefore higher emissions. Massive buildings [...]
Tackling Extreme Heat and Increasing Shade: One Light Rail Station at a Time
Climate change poses significant challenges to the Phoenix Valley. Among these challenges are increased flooding, prolonged drought, groundwater depletion, loss of agriculture revenues, and temperature rise; yet extreme heat poses the greatest threat to Phoenix [...]
Little Green Home on the Big Blue Planet
Shape Up US is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that strives to build a healthier future for all children by providing the knowledge and hands-on experience that will shape their lives. With a focus on health and [...]
Green Building Materials for Utopia Smart City
As the global population increases, there’s been an up-and-coming challenge about the methods to create housing developments without severe economic, social, and environmental consequences. As a pioneer in the field of sustainable societies, Utopia Smart [...]
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