About
Company
Global Land Reserve (GLR) is a multi-faceted sustainability consulting and development firm. We work with forward-thinking organizations of all sizes, to help resolve their most important and demanding environmental and corporate responsibility issues.
GLR was originally established as a developer of carbon sequestration projects, such as the salvage and repurposing of antique timbers from abandoned waterfront structures, and the development of managed forestation programs. GLR has since broadened its scope of expertise to include a number of services catering to the environmentally concerned business world.
Custom-Built Solutions
Global Land Reserve was founded on the notion that, in today’s rapidly changing economy, sustainability is a necessary consideration for conducting good business. Growing customer concern, rapidly changing state and federal regulation, and evolving corporate and industry standards have placed an unprecedented demand on companies to examine their impact and work to become more “green.” To meet this need, GLR provides innovative solutions for its clients based on their most demanding environmental and corporate responsibility issues.
People
James W. Smith – Principal/Managing Partner
Mr. Smith, a founding Principal and managing partner, has over 20 years experience with publicly funded project development and implementation. His grant writing and administration experience exceeds $10 million, through ISTEA, Federal Highway Administration, environmental and land conservation grants, and state and federal park projects.
Mr. Smith is co-founder and President of a Virginia based land conservation non-profit, Mathews Land Conservancy, located in Mathews County, Virginia. He has been active in the carbon offset market for the past 5 years in development of carbon credits and RECs while building relationships between offset creation projects and project-oriented purchasers seeking transparent activity-specific offsets. He has attended the National Clean Energy Summit the previous two years as well as the following carbon credit capital seminars: Developing Sustainable Carbon Credits & Managing Risk; and California Carbon Market Trading & Finance. Mr. Smith’s current project involvement includes a $4.6 million sustainable waterfront development building project, and a green jobs curriculum development project for three new associate degree programs for a tri-state junior college system. contact James
Seth Keller – Project Manager
Mr. Keller is a certified Greenhouse Gas Inventory Quantifier (GHG IQ) with more than 4 years experience in project sourcing and development, GHG quantification and carbon monetization. Mr. Keller joined Global Land Reserve in 2010 after working as a Senior Associate at the International Carbon Bank & Exchange (ICBE) in Gainesville, Florida. At ICBE Mr. Keller was the project manager for an energy efficiency project that led to 20,000 mtCO2e reductions and facilitated the sale of those credits.
He has experience establishing GHG emissions baselines and knowledge of nationally and internationally recognized methodologies and registries. Mr. Keller is knowledgeable of the standards and restrictions set forth in ISO 14064-2 Specification with guidance at the project level for quantification, monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions reductions or removal enhancements.
Having experience with project development, verification, registration and monitoring, Mr. Keller understands every step in the GLR carbon monetization model and fully understands how to coordinate efforts so the project is registered and credits issued in a manner that is cost-effective and efficient. contact Seth