At RPK Landscape Architecture (RPKLA), we have been intentionally setting course to align our companies values, mission, and services to further align with environmental, social, and human impact values as we focus on shaping and designing places that impact the future of public and private land use and impact neighborhoods, communities, and ultimately the planet as a whole.

Over this past year we have rooted our development in Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) initiatives to quantify our impacts and begin to serve a dynamic new client base of corporations that are looking to broaden their social and environmental responsibility through sustainable function and design to enhance your ESG impact and rating to ultimately impact our world for the better. Environmental Social Governance criteria are a set of standards for a company’s behavior that are used by socially conscious investors to screen potential investments. Bloomberg recently reported that, “ESG is upending the worlds of finance and investing as it moves from the periphery to the mainstream,” with assets are poised to reach $41 trillion by the end of this year. Below is a further breakdown of E-S-G:

• E - Environmental criteria consider how a company safeguards the environment, including corporate policies addressing climate change, as one example. At RPKLA, we offer a range of Nature Based Solutions (NbS) including carbon offset, biodiversity, water scarcity, deforestation and more.

• S - Social criteria examine how it manages relationships with employees, suppliers, customers, and the communities where it operates. See below to view the range of Social Impact Spaces we design that can integrate in any outdoor space.

• G- Governance deals with a company’s leadership, executive pay, audits, internal controls, and shareholder rights.

To engage our ESG services please take a moment to highlight your ESG project or consulting needs by telling us more and submitting an - ESG Services Inquiry Form.

We have also created our downloadable ESG guide as a resource to broaden ESG awareness highlighting the realm of ESG elements and services we at RPKLA have to offer your company.

Learn more below about our Social Impact Spaces, Nature-based Solutions, and RPKLA Placemaking Blog: