Earthsite's portfolio showcases current and past projects ranging from marketing strategy, logo and web design and development to social media campaigns. Enjoy exploring our creative work.
Established in 1998 by the founder of the Real Goods Trading Company, the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, CA, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that promotes sustainable living through inspirational environmental education. The mission of the Solar Living Institute is to promote sustainable living through inspirational environmental education. Continuing a tradition of leadership in renewable energy, the Solar Living Institutue is now offering an innovative new online solar training course. Earthsite is developing a supporting website for the online training course. Stay tuned for more details!
Earthsite is working with The Ki on a social media campaign for their first ever event that will be held this year in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Ki is a premium, live, experiential event that immerses businesses, government, media and influential forward living consumers with today’s leading sustainable brands, technologies and innovators. Where Pebble Beach, the TED Conference, New York Fashion Week, the Monaco Grand Prix and Hollywood filmmaking all converge on the topic of creating our sustainable future.
The event will be hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the top cultural hubs for environmental thought and leadership. Unlike a trade show, conference or festival, The Ki provides the exclusive, first hand opportunity for guests to experience the brands that are shaping our world of tomorrow, and engage directly with the visionaries behind them.
Friends of the Urban Forest has partnered with the City & County of San Francisco, to develop the Urban Forest Map, a comprehensive, and public, database to catalog all trees in San Francisco. Soon, you will be able to access this website to add trees to the database, and to get more information on specifics trees in your neighborhood.
Earthsite is working on Design, User Interface and Social Media campaign.
To be notified when the Urban Forest Tree Mapping project launches, sign up now!
In January of 2010, Earthsite launched a new website for Real Goods Solar. Since 1978, Real Goods has led the sustainable living market through sales, education, and installation of solar and other renewable energy products.
Real Goods was purchased by Gaiam, Inc. in 2001, who then opened a solar installation division in 2003. The retail products and solar installation services were housed together under the corporate name Real Goods Solar, Inc. which was spun off from Gaiam as a publically-traded company in 2008. Real Goods Solar, Inc. acquired 4 other solar installation companies within the past sixteen months: Marin Solar, Carlson Solar, Independent Energy Systems and Regrid Power, which are all now under the Real Goods Solar corporate umbrella.
Earthsite's objecives for the project were: Architecture Home Page Integration ofRealGoodsSolar.com withRealGoods.com Integration of Marin Solar, Carlson Solar, Independent Energy Systems, and Regrid Power brands into RealGoods.com
Design Create a contemporary look and feel, in kind with clean tech industry Leverage web technologies to harness social networking and web 2.0 best practices
Metrics Increase site visit sign-ups (conversions) for solar installation (commercial and residential) Reduce bounce rate of RealGoodsSolar.com
In the fall of 2009 Earthsite also launched a microsite Zero Down, Zero Interest campaign for Real Goods Solar while the main site was being built.
In the Fall of 2009 Earthsite redesigned the Dominican University of CA's Green MBA website. This included the addition of a new Green MBA blog and social media strategy. Dominican University of California's Green MBA is an engaged learning community that seeks to promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice in business and organizations of all types. Students graduate with practical skills and experience, prepared to innovate, communicate, and lead effectively in the face of global challenges.
The Green MBA provides a culture of collaboration and innovation for those ready to take responsibility in a complex world that needs rethinking.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dominican’s Green MBA is an on-site program whose graduates receive a Master of Business Administration degree in Sustainable Enterprise. Students have a choice of two-year full-time and three-year part-time structures to accommodate life/work balance while pursuing the degree.
We are proud to say that the founders of Earthsite, Joey and Stacie Shepp, and our social media director, Ryan Milani, all graduated from the Green MBA.
Social Media Strategy and Implementation Earthsite is training Dominican University of California's staff on effective ways to use social technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. The objectives for the project are to use these tools to improve the universities' efforts in recruiting, campus community, and the ability to share its thought leadership.
Project Highlights
Formation of an internal social media committee
One-on-one training with various branches of the university
Setup of social web properties and integrations with main website
Project Profile: The San Francisco Green Business Program came to Earthsite looking for a next-generation web platform to support their growing community of green businesses in one of the world’s leading eco-conscious cities.
Services Provided:
Strategic Technology Platform selection
Site Architecture & User Experience consulting
Content Integration & Graphic Design
Technical Features:
State of the art Business Directory with full range of community networking features including video, maps, business spotlights, advanced search, and easy administrator control panel.
Online re-certification Form
Support knowledgebase for member self-service, FAQ’s, Guides and Tools etc.
The mission of the San Francisco Green Business program is to help San Francisco businesses adopt environmental practices that are sustainable as well as profitable. They achieve their mission by setting stringent criteria, providing technical assistance, and publicly recognizing and promoting Green Businesses with a seal that enables customers to shop in keeping with their values.
The Program is made of up of three City agencies: SF Environment, San Francisco Department of Public Health, and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. The San Francisco Green Business Program is also a member of the Bay Area Green Business Program.
Status: 7 year web partner; ongoing strategy, development and web maintenance.
Earthsite has been working with the Green Festival since it began in 2002. Each year, the Green Festival expands in scope, attracting 150,000+ attendees per year to the five-city event where they explore the challenges and successes of building the green economy. The Green Festival’s online presence is vital to promoting the event, recruiting volunteers, registering vendors and managing logistics.
Green Festival administrative time has been greatly reduced with online registration for exhibitors, speakers, and attendees. In the summer of 2008, Earthsite re-launched the Green Festival website allowing the client to continue to scale up as the Green Festival adds more festivals each year.
Earthsite provides a wide range of Web services for the Green Festival, serving as an ongoing partner in producing the world’s largest sustainability event.
Green Festival TV and Radio came out of Earthsite's vision to bring the festival to more people year round and to promote the festival to a wider audience.
Earthsite's team has produced hundreds of full-length videos and audio recordings of renowned speakers and exclusive interviews with Green Festival partners and speakers. Green Festival TV and Radio officially launched in January 2009 with a kick off social media campaign and a launch party in March 2009.
The Sustainability Hub online “webtool” is Sustainable San Mateo County’s newest community resource. Building upon the success of our long-standing Indicators Report, this new community website will be your one-stop hub to find and share Local solutions and resources to make your life, business and community more sustainable.
2009 Indicators, in an online interactive format
Solution Guides for each of the Indicators
Local Resource Directory of businesses, nonprofits, city programs, and more for each Solution Guide Article
Powerful, customized Local Google-based search engine Bay Area’s only dedicated Green Job Board
Local Sustainable Event Calendar
Interactive interface, allowing users to submit and share solutions, resources, events and jobs.
"Sustainable San Mateo County is preparing the ground for changing society. We can't simply arrive at a sustainable world...we have to co-create and live our way into it together. The Sustainability Hub is SSMC's newest community resource for promoting a healthy economy, environment, and society in San Mateo County. This first-of-its-kind webtool provides the community with an easy way to share and gather trusted solutions and local resources, as well as the first and only Bay Area Green Jobs Board." TED Curator Chris Anerson Read Blog Post
Status:Re-launched for Earth Day 2008, ongoing development and strategy.
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations dedicated to reducing the energy consumption of computers
Currently, Earthsite is developing a new section of the website that will allow Fortune 500 companies to calculate their carbon footprint from computer usage.
People 4 Earth is an international non-profit organization with it's headquarters in the Netherlands and offices in Washington DC with plans to expand into Asia in 2010.
People 4 Earth came to Earthsite with the need for clarity in their online marketing goals. Through a strategy and discovery phase Earthsite determined a short term plan that would aide them in their business development. The result was the launch of a new website with more concise marketing copy in three languages English, Dutch and Chinese. One of People 4 Earth's main goals was to continue to build a community around their organization. In order to achieve this goal we set up a social media stratgey including a Ning Community, Facebook page and Twitter account.
People 4 Earth’s mission is to create a more sustainable world through oneness, truth, simplicity and transparency. Money raised will be distributed to various sustainable action projects in the fields of: education, health, animal welfare and earth preservation.
Ranch 7 Creative has been working in collaboratoin with Earthsite for several years with the Green Festival client. Ranch 7 came to Earthsite with the need for an updated content management system for their portfolio. For this project we were able to combine our talents to create a new website for Ranch 7 that displays their creative side and our technological side.
The result: a new website that reflects Ranch 7 Creative's new positioning. They are now able to keep their content up to date and move beyond having a static site.
Earthsite and Ranch 7 Creative are available to work on projects together. Let us know if you are interested in working with our two companies on a collaborative project.
In January 2009, Earthsite launched a microsite for Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Power Down for the Planet is a competition to encourage universities to reduce their own IT power consumption, and get their students, faculty and staff involved in the fight against computing energy waste. In addition to the website, Earthsite also designed the logo and print materials for the campaign.
Healthy Child provides a resource to help parents create a home environment where babies and children can thrive and reach their full potential. They advocate holistic, natural medicine and reducing environmental toxins as much as possible. Haelthy Child's founders realize that in our current world it is impossible to completely eliminate all toxins to which our children are exposed. However, we can take steps to reduce or eliminate the most detrimental exposures and keep our kids and our planet as safe and healthy as possible.
The new site displays a Product Guide featuring non-toxic items including organic mattresses and bedding and a Parenting Guide offering advice on topics such as food and nutrition and vaccinations.
In the Fall of 1999, brother and sister Ahmed and Reem had a vision-to revive the serenity, creativity, and comfort that is inspired by the simple art of tea. The two siblings have combined their belief in the transcendental properties of tea with their individual passions for photography, art, and culture. The result of this blend was Numi Organic Tea.
Numi Organic Tea came to Earthsite with a vision for creating a set of promotional video pieces to help them promote their product. In the summer of 2008, Earthsite's media team created a short promotional video for Numi. This piece tells the story of Co-founders Ahmed and Reem Rahim and their commitment to the environment and people.
Status: Ongoing online marketing and technology strategy.
Sustainable Fairfax is one of the first groups in Marin County, CA to pioneer sustainability, with a legacy of educating the town council, supporting the community, providing services to the town, and conducting educational events since 1999.
Earthsite has been working with Sustainable Fairfax for the last three years focusing on the organizations online marketing strategy including: the launch of a new website, logo redesign, and newsletter strategy. The new site, along with a new bi-weekly newsletter, has helped the organization effectively communicate with the public and expand community involvement through increased memberships, volunteers and community education attendees.
Community Energy Services Corporation works with local cities, utilities and community-based organizations to find ways to provide more low-cost, comprehensive energy services to residential and commercial customers.
The Community Energy Services Corporation (CESC) is dedicated to building sustainable communities in the greater Bay Area through innovative and hands-on energy and building improvement programs. A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and licensed general contractor, we work in partnership with cities, counties, and utilities to provide these services in underserved and vulnerable communities.
Geämi protects the products of a wide variety of companies of which, many are among the most innovative and recognizable names in their respective industries. From small businesses to Fortune 500 companies,
A sustainable replacement for plastic bubble and foam wraps.
"The Earthsite team are the most professional and reliable people I have ever had the pleasure of working with in my many years of social entrepreneurship."
Dr. Kevin Danaher Executive Co-Producer, Green Festivals
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The event will be hosted in the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the top cultural hubs for environmental thought and leadership. Unlike a trade show, conference or festival, The Ki provides the exclusive, first hand opportunity for guests to experience the brands that are shaping our world of tomorrow, and engage directly with the visionaries behind them.
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People 4 Earth
The Greener Battery
Production of two promotional video pieces.
