VERITATIS ADVISORS
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Services Offered

Sustainability & Risk

Sustainability Strategy & Risk Management

Public Sector Sustainability

Climate & Energy

Climate Change & GHG

Energy Management

Environment, Health & Safety

Environmental Resource Utilization & Efficiency

Integrated Management Systems

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How We Work

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Whether you are big or small, evolving or distinctly customer-personal, every client of Veritatis is unique. At Veritatis, we work with you. We listen, then conduct. We look to change sustainable operations. Where there is a sustainable process, a profitable client is not far behind with Veritatis at your back.

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TAKE SMART RISKS

Change is necessary. Our goal is to stay ahead of the curve to gain market share and win clients with our efficiency and smart thinking. Our industry relationships and know-how give us the power and knowledge to advise clients on when and where they should take those leaps of faith.

PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS

Repositioning assets starts with mapping your attributes for future goals. Our goal is to find the most efficient processes and leverage them. Whether they are hidden or obvious, Veritatis paves a new effective path for growth and success.

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SET THE TRENDS AND STAND APART

Our experience makes us a leader in observing trends in capital investment requirements placed on EHS and sustainability programs. We offer clients measured, safe change with an acute focus on market drivers in the converging energy efficiency, climate, and environmental space.

Client Projects

Client Projects Making a Difference

Climate Change Impact

-20% End of Pipe GHG Controlled (CO² eq)

12,347MTs Avoided in GHG (CO² eg) Emissions

Recycle & Reuse Impact

90% in LEED C / D Waste Recovery

3.8MMt/Yr. in Chemical / By-Product Recovery

Energy Impact

-48% in Energy Consumption & Efficiency

Water Impact

-80% in Water / Waste Water Recovery

Compliance Impact

300$ Million in Process & Product liability Claims Avoidance

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Portfolio

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Agricultural Equipment
Basic and Specialty Chemicals
Construction Materials
Consumer Products
Electrical Equipment and Software
Integrated Management
Pharmaceutical
Sustainability in Government

Schneider Electric – ISO 50001 & SEP, ISO 14001
Genentech – ISO 50001
Lincoln Electric – ISO 50001
NY MTA – ISO 14001
LA Metro – ISO 14001 & Asset Management
Henkel (German) – ISO 14, 18, 50001
Fiat/Case New Holland (CNH)
ABB (Netherlands) – Software Certification to ISO 50001
USG – VOC control, Title V
NY DEP Water Supply
RPM International (Tremco Division)
DuPont
Solvay (Rhodia)

Trust, fact, accuracy.

Veritatis’ core principal is efficient action based on effective use of resources, namely the ‘human resource’ to maximize shareholder value with minimal natural resource impact.

We humans always look for more, heavenward, imagining ourselves as Icarus soaring freely against a magnificent blue sky.

As children we are taught to look up first to our parents, teachers, service men and then our heroes.

Humans look up to receive nutrition, money, encouragement and later jet streams, tall buildings, space stations, and the stars.

We rarely look down. Rarely do we look at people, at the water we drink and swim, at the air we breathe or consider the efficiency in how we consume natural resources or the efficiency by which we produce things.

It’s perhaps against our human nature to be sustainable, why? Perhaps, simply we are conditioned to look up instead of down, to consume without consideration, and to assume abundant supply.

These matters are the nexus of Veritatis Advisors, said Don Macdonald during a recent speech on energy management

About

Don Macdonald Chief Advisor

Don Macdonald is known for his innovative consulting methods, approaches, his ability to identify and secure new developing public trends, and his unique value on constructing new strategies.

Q: What is Veritatis Advisors?
From the Latin word, it means “Truth.”

Veritatis Advisors helps organizations help themselves by uncovering the operational truth. Clients seek our advice because frankly, they can get lost. Costs are too high, risks too great, processes wasteful, confronting a new requirement, or simply short staffed. They often describe their situation as “being too close to the forest to see the trees” and this is where we help them. Veritatis excels at navigating the complex and changing environment for C Suite, boards of directors, and business unit leaders across multi-cultural environments.

Q: What makes Veritatis Advisors unique?
We listen, focus, and then act.

We advise only in three areas of risk management: Sustainability & Risk; Climate & Energy; Environment, Health & Safety

Q: What are Veritatis’ areas of Operational Expertise?

-GRI, CDP
-Maturity mapping, program integration, performance coaching
-Regulatory Advisory, EHS
-Product Claim and Recycle Content Verifications
-Energy Management, DOE, Better Plants/Better Buildings, ASHRAE, and IPMVP

Associated Non-Profit Organizations

Young Hearts for Life (YH4L)

Don, an avid open water marathon swimmer, having qualified to swim the English Channel, circumnavigated Manhattan island, and completed numerous other grand swims; believes ECG screening of all physically active and especially young persons is justified, cost-effective and compelling. There are some things you cannot place an economic value on and a child’s life is one of them. Equally important is the education of adults as role models. The importance of being proactively screened cannot be understated, 50 percent of cases have no prior symptoms.

Educational Foundation

Using again his avid open water marathon swimming as a vehicle to discuss challenges, success and failure, Don raises awareness for local communities implementing student emotional & resilience programming. The Barrington 220 Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit to acquire and distribute resources in support of Barrington Community School District 220 for programs and projects aimed at enhancing, enriching and supplementing learning opportunities for students, staff and community. Don’s efforts have helped promote awareness to generate more than $2 million in grant categories: Project — a one-time award for an effort that enhances learning opportunities; Projects for Innovation and Enhancement (PIE) — allows teachers and staff to introduce innovative programs that benefit students; Helping Hand — when other funding sources are limited; Memorial — a grant that honors the memory of a family or community member.

the latest from

The blog

9 Aug 2017

Simplicity Matters – Utilities and Work Force Development

By Don Macdonald

Steve Jobs through sheer tenacity and resilience, focused on simplicity. Fired from Apple, created NEXT, rehired by Apple because he

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23 Mar 2017

Communicating Sustainability Strategy and Performance – A CEO’s Responsibility

By Don Macdonald

Companies are not succulently communicating their sustainability performance to investors, colleagues nor the public and not linking this performance to

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16 Jan 2017

Veritatis Insights – Efficiency begets Consumption, the Jevons Paradox of Sustainability

By Don Macdonald

Veritatis Insights considers the economic rebound principal known as 'Jevons Paradox' as it applies to a widely known product, Scottish Whiskey.

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6 Sep 2016

Utilities begin to realize Efficiency as an Energy Resource

By Don Macdonald

Utility adoption of energy efficiency programs is an outsourced model of engagement perhaps until now. According to AEEE, utilities a

18 Jul 2016

Clean Power Plan – Incentives begin to roll-out

By Don Macdonald

Clean Power Plan - Incentives begin to roll-out Incentives from EPA to do "states heavy lifting" launched. Incentives for renewables

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14 Jul 2016

Schneider Electric reports stunning success in deployment of its energy management strategy

By Don Macdonald

Veritatis Advisors global client Schneider Electric reports stunning success in deployment of its energy management strategy devised by VA's Don Macdonald.

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