Call Us a Hybrid.

PIONEER

A PIONEER

There since the beginning in 1989 communicating environmental and sensitive issues, defining socially responsible marketing, positioning ‘sustainability’, branding the best new products.

PARTNER

A PARTNER

Integrating sustainable values and processes into corporate and government policies, operations and guiding client interface with the public.

BRAINTRUST

A BRAINTRUST

ECA works alongside organizations providing consulting, marketing, branding, public awareness campaigns, media and crisis communications management and training.

UNRIVALED

UNRIVALED

No group is more creative and experienced in handling tough complex issues or helping clients navigate an unpredictable landscape than ECA. Our long track record in creative communications tells the story.

ECA believes no business or organization is immune from the radical shape-shifting of our times. We are witnessing giant institutions and entire industries being dismantled and/or replaced in amazingly short order. Unanticipated issues appear out of nowhere and can broadside and disrupt business, challenging its working model and even its entire infrastructure.

Whether impacted by advancing technology, the exponential impact of social media on consumer behavior, geopolitical transformation, and even severe climate changes, the future will belong to those companies and others who are bold enough to change and greet it.

This is where ECA comes in.

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WE ARE CHANGE AGENTS.

WE ARE NOT SPIN DOCTORS.

ECA – A Rare Breed.

Environmental Communications Associates pioneered strategic planning and communications on environmental and sensitive issues since the late 1980s.

Over the years we have helped clients assess opportunities and headwinds and strategically navigate the minefield of issues they face. This includes the integration of sustainability into corporate policies, operations and the interface with the public. ECA works alongside our clients (you) to refine or redefine their purpose, market, influences, strategic positioning — and develop subsequent creative campaigns and media that are spot on and create a new future. There is no group more experienced in handling tough issues and helping you navigate unpredictable business landscapes than ECA.

Our clients are a diverse mix of Fortune 500 business, entrepreneurial startups, government entities, and many non-profits.

Snapshots of Creative Work

Alfalfa’s
Rocky Mountain National Park
Keep It Clean Partnership
Western Conservation Foundation

Our Services

DELIVERING Every Day

Here’s what our Clients can expect from ECA in development and implementation of a strategic plan.

  • Landscape & Market Research
  • Situation Analysis and Trends
  • Issue Area Deep Dives
  • Target Audience Insights
  • ‘Radical Brand/Product Rethink’ Sessions
  • Mission, Vision, Values
  • Brand Positioning & Story
  • Logo & Visual Identity
  • Name & Tagline
  • Key Messages
  • Copywriting & Speechwriting
  • Campaigns
  • Design
  • Messaging
  • Content
  • Advertising
  • Web
  • Social
  • Mobile
  • Video
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Community / Relationship Building
  • Reputation Management
  • Crisis Management
  • Alliances & Partnerships
  • Risk & Opportunity Analysis
  • Benchmarking
  • Issue Prioritization
  • Capacity Building
  • Business Case
  • Innovation

Our Team

AJ Grant

ANDREA J. GRANT (AJ)

President

Averill Doering

AVERILL DOERING

Strategic Marketing

Kim Fuller

KIM FULLER

Media Relations

Bud Wilson

BUD WILSON

Senior Consultant

Nancy Maysmith

NANCY MAYSMITH

Designer

Our long track record tells the story.

Consider Us

To bring your ideas to life, create a winning marketing strategy,  manage an issue or just tap our brains, give us a shout. Call, email, text, or come knock on our door… We’re here.

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Alfalfa’s

  • Developed a national issue-related marketing strategy to launch new natural products market promoting healthy food alternatives and introducing organic food to consumers. Campaign informed consumers about environmental concerns that aligned with consumer values and ethics, elevating new consumer buying criteria. Project included cause related marketing, advertising, public relations, campaign production, scientific support materials and campaign administration.

Rocky Mountain National Park

  • ECA designed the Park entrance signs and signage program throughout park.  Also developed The Next Generation Fund Capital campaign for Rocky Mountain National Park to raise $10 Million to fund the education and interpretive programs: strategy, campaign branding, logo, website and promotional materials

Keep It Clean Partnership

  • A multimedia statewide campaign designed to increase public awareness about water quality. The campaign evolved over 8 years and included print, direct mail, traveling display booth, blogs, roadside signage, curriculum and learning tools, mascot creation, with the goal of branding water quality to young children.

Western Conservation Foundation

  • Created comprehensive statewide campaign to inform regulatory upgrades for outdated oil and gas environmental regulations in Colorado. ECA created the multi-media campaign which included a series of billboards along the I-70 corridor across Colorado using iconic songs and imagery of the West. Fortified with print ads in local papers, radio, media/PR and stakeholder meetings. Cross sector participation from unlikely stakeholders led to a successful outcome. State regulations were updated and became the model for enhanced national oil and gas regulations.

Andrea J. Grant (AJ)

  • President, Environmental Communications Associates, Inc.

    Ms. Grant specializes in communicating complex and sensitive issues to the public. Drawing from her combined background in communications and environmental science, AJ helps clients find innovative ways to reach the public and transform environmental and sustainability issues through strategic initiatives and reframing communications. Ms. Grant´s expertise includes designing and orchestrating communication strategies on national and global issues, especially highly contentious matters. She is well respected by both environmental and business communities nationwide providing a strong foundation and network for creatively resolving environmental issues.

    She has also written highly acclaimed curriculums on environmentally related topics for universities, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools. In creating the Big Green Company, Inc. she set out to create a powerful means to positively influence today’s youth through multimedia entertainment and education. The company’s core brand, Big Green Rabbit, is considered the first major success in packaging environmental and health topics for families using multimedia to reach tens of millions across the country on television and through a large on-line and social presence. Big Green Rabbit won 4 EMMYS, 2 WEBBY Awards, Parents Choice awards and has 85 million hits on YouTube. The goal was to change behaviors on how consumers treat themselves and the world around them —Healthy Bodies, healthy planet.

    AJ gained national recognition as a speaker at international conferences such as “Globe International Conference on Business and the Environment” (Vancouver), “The Environment and The Media,” “Corporate Conscience Strategies,” “Greening the Bottom Line,” “Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI),” and others.

    Recent Boards include: Dean’s Advisory Board for University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability, Advisory Board for University of Colorado Masters in Environment program, National Parks Foundation Board, National Outdoor Leadership School, Alaska Conservation Foundation, Western Resource Advocates, and the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado.

  • Averill Doering

  • Strategic Marketing Director

    Averill brings her unique perspective and strategic insight to our clients through her combined background in economics, marketing and environmental conservation. After studying Economics at Dartmouth College, she began her career as a brand strategist for the leading global firm, Interbrand. There she managed and helped to refresh iconic global brands such as AT&T, ConAgra and Xerox.

    But it was while she was working on the GE Ecomagination project (that sought to promote the company’s more ecologically sound products) that she became fascinated with sustainable business. Averill soon took this newfound passion to J.D. Power and Associates where she spearheaded proprietary research on consumer opinions toward climate change. Averill later joined Conservation International as Director of Corporate Partnerships, focusing on the agricultural and extractive sectors that were designed to improve business and supply chain practices. In this role she led the communications for Starbucks’ Sustainable and Ethical Coffee Sourcing programs. Averill specializes in market and target audience insights, brand positioning and campaign strategies and is our resident expert in creating simple visuals for just about any complex concept. Averill brings her sharp insights and an uncanny ability to make connections on issues that others miss. She also leads ECA’s marketing insights activities.

  • Kim Fuller

  • Senior PR/Media Relations Associate

    Kim is a world class media relations professional with high level public relations credentials who is called in during the nation’s most high profile events. Her senior media relations capabilities have been brought in to execute strategies for the Executive Officer of the President at The White House and during almost every natural and man-made disaster over the past thirty years. This included the TWA 800 Crash investigation hearings; the BP Oil Spill, Hurricanes Harvey and Katrina, and Superstorm Sandy. Kim is instrumental in understanding how to reframe issues and execute media plans quickly around unexpected events as well as maintaining freshness in long term public relations. She has been instrumental in changing public perception and introducing the term disaster prevention and resistance into the American lexicon starting with FEMA’s building disaster-resistant communities. The term now morphed into a global term “resiliency.”

    Kim serves as point person coordinating multimillion dollar public awareness campaigns with some of the largest public relations firms. Her media contacts abound and are documented with over 6,000 contacts in her personal mobile phone. She can coordinate with agility and ease and can change focus on a dime as well as implement long term strategies. She is a phone call or text away from high level media personalities, producers and bookers around the Globe having been to over 40 countries with The President of the United States and other government and non-governmental agency officials. Her clients have included the Executive Office of the President at the White House, Federal Emergency Management Agency, former FEMA Director James Lee Witt, International Code Council, government officials, and leading experts in weather and other issues. She has served as chief spokesperson and has placed clients in a number of live appearances on major networks such as MSNBC, Fox News Channel, Nightline and CNN, morning shows and more.

  • Bud Wilson

  • Senior Consultant

    Bud has worked with ECA for decades providing critical research, key insights, strategy development, educational program development, training and copywriting…and just about anything that needs to be done.

    His diverse experience and keen understanding of human behavior brings a crosscurrent of ideas to client projects and ECA’s communications. He has over 40 years of experience as a writer, leadership trainer, educator, business, non-profit and community leader, social and environmental entrepreneur and outdoor wilderness leader. After graduating from Harvard University he spent 10 years as Director of Conferences for Snowmass Village in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. He supported programs and presentations by Margaret Mead, R. Buckminster Fuller, Jean Houston, George Leonard, among many others. Bud has held executive positions in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. He co-designed international symposia for John Denver’s Windstar Foundation entitled: “Choices for the Future”.

  • Nancy Maysmith

  • Designer

    Nancy turns creative ideas into reality. She has worked with ECA and clients on branding/logo design, innovative presentations and ad campaigns. Her ability to create designs that are both eye-catching and pragmatic helps ECA translate complex concepts into appealing and impactful materials. Infographics are her specialty and integral to communicating complex subject matter and issues.

    Nancy has marketing roots in the sportswear industry and is adept in print, digital and illustration. Nancy graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Graphic Design with special emphasis in Scientific Illustration.