(SAVANNAH, GA) Local sustainability guru Tommy Linstroth announces his new business, Trident Sustainability Group, LLC.
http://www.tridentsustainability.com
Trident Sustainability Group is a full-service sustainability and green building consulting firm that focuses on providing triple bottom line solutions to a diverse range of clients both locally and nationwide. Trident provides hands on guidance on green building design and construction and offers extensive development-based expertise to help clients achieve LEED certification for their projects. Trident also provides institutional sustainability services to organizations, from nonprofit and small business to municipalities and government agencies looking to decrease energy and water consumption, improve indoor air quality, and reduce their environmental footprint.
To date, Linstroth has been involved with more than thirty LEED certified projects, with over a dozen more underway. These projects include the first all-retail LEED shopping center in the nation, the first LEED McDonald’s restaurant, and Sustainable Fellwood, one of the largest green affordable housing developments – part of the LEED for Neighborhood Developments pilot program and LEED for Homes program – in the nation. He has helped clients achieve LEED certification on projects ranging from million square foot warehouses to boutique hotels to historic renovations to schools, with a stellar record of client retention.
Linstroth is Chair of the USGBC – Georgia chapter and is the original founder and past-chairman of the United States Green Building Council – Savannah Chapter. He serves on the board of directors for the Georgia Conservation Voters and the Live Oak Public Libraries and on the Chatham Environmental Forum, the Mayor’s Healthy Savannah Initiative and the Creative Coast Advisory Board.
Linstroth is the founder of the RehydrateUS Initiative (www.rehydrateus.org). The Rehydrate US Initiative is a non-partisan and independent organization, established to address the unnecessary waste of water in our built environment and in response to the historic drought affecting the Southeast in 2008, threatening water supply to millions of citizens..
He is a frequent speaker on green building throughout the country, and he co-authored the book Local Action: The New Paradigm in Climate Change Policy published in November 2007, and is a contributing author for The Green Building Bottom Line, published in November 2008. He is a frequent author for numerous journals and periodicals, and has a column in Sustainable Facilities magazine. He currently resides in Savannah, Georgia.
Trident Sustainability Group is based in Savannah, GA, at 210 East Bay Street.
Linstroth can be reached at tommy@tridentsustainability.com or 912.695.4692 Visit www.tridentsustainability.com for more information.