Writing about complex and nuanced issues needs to be clear and compelling and must speak to the concerns, values, and experiences of specified target audiences.  We start with a good grounding in the topic, distilling key points and connections among main concepts.  Then we build from a framework of strong organization, write with a straightforward voice and style, and polish with crisp editing to produce reports and materials that communicate.

Our research and editorial team has a solid background in journalistic, academic, book, proposal, and report editing for environmental and other cause-related communications.  We understand the unique communications needs and constraints of nonprofits, agencies, and institutions.

• We produce reports, white papers, policy summaries, fact sheets, messages, case studies, grant proposals, and other written products designed to meet a particular client's needs.
• We conduct research that lays the groundwork for clients to communicate accurately and powerfully.
• We provide developmental editing and copyediting for documents that clients produce.

• Major content contributions to the Presidential Climate Action Plan.
• A briefing book that demystifies federal appropriations priorities for Great Lakes restoration.
• The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement: Promises to Keep, Challenges to Meet ( 1.33 MB pdf), a report that distills a set of binational NGO consensus points on the U.S./Canada Water Quality Agreement.
• A background paper on strategic communications for Great Lakes issues for funders and policy groups.