ANIELSKI Management Inc.

Our Clients

Anielski Management has served as strategic counsel on performance measurement and business planning to a number of clients, including governments, business, communities and non-profit organizations. Mark Anielski's expertise ranges from business planning, performance measurement, resource and socio-economic analysis, natural resource accounting, to the development of quality of life and sustainability indicators and measurement systems.

Our clients and projects have included:

• City of Edmonton, Alberta - genuine progress indicator (GPI) assessment.
• Canadian Index of Well-being, Ecosystem Health Indicactors (Atkinson Foundation, Toronto)
• World Bank: Advisor on Greening China's GDP
• City of Leduc (Alberta) and Leduc County - genuine wealth assessment.
• Ethical Funds Company of Canada: strategic advisor on investment screens.
• Alberta Environment (Government of Alberta) -
  GPI-full cost-benefit assessment of Alberta's bottle, tires, elecronics and used oil recycling programs.
  Ecological Footprint analysis of Alberta's communities.
• Government of Nova Scotia - Socio-economic (GPI) assessment of gambling in Nova Scotia.
• China Council on International Cooperation on Environment and Development - development of a green accounting ('green GDP') system and indicators for a xiaokang harmonious soicety for China.
• Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse - socio-economic impacts of gambling asessment framework.
• City of Calgary - ecological footprint management strategy.
• City of Santa Monica - sustainability indicator measurement system.
• Federation of Canadian Municipalities – Ecological Footprint Analysis for Canada’s largest 20 municipalities and regions (with Associate, Jeff Wilson).
• Canadian Boreal Initiative – assessment of the state and value of natural capital and ecological goods and services of Canada’s vast Boreal Forest ecosystem and Mackenzie river watershed.
• Nunavut Tungavuut Inc – development of the Inuit Genuine Well-being Indicators framework to measuring and reporting the well-being of the Inuit culture.
• The Alberta Motor Association – development of a Traffic Safety report card for Alberta.
• Fraser Basin Council – sustainability indicators for the Fraser Basin region.
• Suncor Energy – development of a prototype "genuine wealth accounting" system to measure and report on the financial, social and environmental sustainability of Suncor's "five-capital assets."
• EPCOR – development of an integrated corporate sustainability accounting and reporting system (in partnership with Brian Nattrass and Mary Altomaire, The Natural Step, Canada).
• Bainbridge Graduate Institute (Bainbridge, Washington)– Adjunct Professor of “sustainable economics” teaching natural capitalism and sustainability with Amory Lovins (RMI) and Gifford Pinchot III
• Unversity of Alberta (School of Business) - Adjunct Professor and pioneer of a course in corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship.
• Alberta Recreation and Parks Association – social capital indicators and the development of the “Active Communities” strategic-business plan.
• The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy – strategic adivsor on the development of Canada's first set of sustainable development indicators.
  Environment Canada – review of Canada’s sustainability measurement system. This included writing the original 2000 Federal Budget proposal for Finance Minister Paul Martin.
• The City of Edmonton – development of a quality of life indicator reporting system for Edmonton.
• The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development – The research and development of the Alberta Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI) System of Sustainable Well-being Accounting that assessed the long-term sustainability of the province from 1961-1999.
• Alberta Environmental Protection – strategic counsel on performance measuremen, business planning and accountability systems design.
• The University of Alberta – development of the U of A's first three-year strategic-business plan in 1999.
• The Sustainable Forest Management Network (Centre of Excellence) – development of the Network's first three-year strategic business plan that was used to renew long-term federal government funding.
• Western Economic Diversification – stategic counsel on the development of their three-year strategic business plan.
• Alberta Capital Governance Review Committee (Chair, the Hon. Lou Hyndman) – Faciliated and developed a prototype “Indicators of Success” quality of life and regional performance measurement and reporting system for the Alberta Capital (Edmonton and other municipalities) region.
• Yukon Council on the Economy and the Environment – facilitated a project (through the Pembina Institute) to develop a prototype “Sustainable Progress Indicators” system.
• Government Policy Consultants (GPC) International – senior policy advisor to industry.
• Edmonton Social Planning Council – developed the prototype Edmonton Social Health Index: a composite 17-indicator quality of life measurement and reporting system.
• Redefining Progress (Oakland, California) – as RP's Senior Fellow and contract researcher, completed the U.S. Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for 1999: a full-cost/benefit accounting of the economic, social and environmental depreciation costs associated with U.S. economic growth as measured by the GDP - Gross Domestic Product.
• Yukon Economic Development – facilitated and developed their first three-year strategic-business plan.
• The Philippine National Oil Company – taught a five-day intensive ecological economics programs for PNOC staff in Manila.
• LEAD Canada – taught ecological economics course
• The Government of Peru (Energy Ministry) -- in partnership with Paul Precht (energy consultant) developed a analytic framework and strategy for assesing Peru's strategic energy policy.

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