LMI 2010 Sustainability Report by LMI

2010 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT

Complex Problems. Practical Solutions.

hat We Believe

For 50 years, LMI has built its reputation by striking a balance between improving the management of government and operating responsibly in a healthy work environment. Today, we call balancing these competing priorities “sustainability.” Our half century of experience in achieving this balance has been imperative to our success and will be the foundation for our next 50 years. The tasks we perform for public-sector managers and senior executives are only the beginning of our efforts as corporate citizens. By charting a course that considers the three tenets of sustainability—social responsibility, economic prosperity, and environmental stewardship—LMI can honor our mission-centered commitments and continue the vital work we do for the government and the American people. This report formally reflects LMI’s actions to establish a sustainability baseline and convey performance metrics that we will assess annually going forward. As you will read, our staff, with financial and other support from the LMI organization, has contributed thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars as good citizens and valued members of the communities in which we live and work. Through internal initiatives and committees and external involvement with our clients, these actions have been and will continue to be the right thing for us to do. We are proud to communicate our commitment and success stories to our employees, clients, suppliers, and other stakeholders. We invite your comments and welcome future ongoing collaboration with our peers in the public sector and government to ensure that all organizations achieve sustainability.

The Honorable Nelson M. Ford President and CEO, LMI

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY LMI’s sustainability report describes activities and initiatives that this organization undertakes to ensure we follow the basic tenets of sustainability. Our report, prepared in 2011, covers baseline data through calendar year 2010. We plan to continue to report progress annually against the baseline data in this report. As a point of reference, LMI subscribes to the definition of sustainability first used by the United Nations’ Brundtland Commission, which declared sustainable development as meeting “the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” LMI’s sustainability represents a balance of three tenets: social responsibility, economic prosperity, and environmental stewardship.

Social Responsibility LMI’s efforts in maintaining our corporate social responsibilities include the continued support of our Charity and Sustainability Committees. We support our employees through a generous benefit package, training opportunities, a mentoring system, and a sincere emphasis on work-life balance. LMI encourages and supports community involvement and, as an organization, has established a high standard with its charitable contributions.

Economic Prosperity LMI’s economic prosperity is the critical part of our long-term sustainability: it ensures continued accomplishment of our mission and reflects—more than just our financial standing—the value we bring to our clients. It is also a testament to the contributions of LMI employees, our small and disadvantaged business partners, vendors, and government stakeholders. LMI’s economic prosperity allows us to attract an exceptional workforce, helps us retain employees considerably longer than the industry average, and underpins our social responsibility and environmental stewardship efforts.

Environmental Stewardship LMI is committed to protecting the environment, reducing environmental risks, and minimizing the negative environmental consequences of our operations. We monitor and seek to minimize our energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and waste materials related to the work we do. LMI also encourages and sponsors staff initiatives to institutionalize a lasting culture of environmental stewardship.

CONTENTS What We Believe.......................... i EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.................... 1 INTRODUCTION............................ 3 Our Corporate Profile ............... 4 Promoting Sustainability and Producing Results........... 5 In-House Research................... 5 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY................ 6 LMI Culture............................. 6 Development of Current Employees.......................... 7 Development of Future Employees.......................... 8 Health, Safety, and Security....... 8 Community Involvement............ 9 ECONOMIC PROSPERITY................10 ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP.....13 Energy..................................13 Greenhouse Gases...................14 Material Use and Recycling........15 Commitment to Future.............15 Realizing a Sustainable Government........................16 ABOUT THIS REPORT....................20

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About This Report This report meets the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines in conjunction with its Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Sector Supplement. It includes disclosures, where that information is available to support this report. A table elaborating on LMI’s performance against the GRI indicators is available at www.lmi.org/SustainabilityReportTables. As a not-for-profit, LMI’s stakeholders include our employees, our partners, and our clients. Mr. John Selman Program Director LMI Energy and Environment

Mr. John Selman Jselman@lmi.org Program Director—LMI Energy and Environment

LMI’s 2009 team of runners for the Army 10-miler.

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INTRODUCTION LMI is a not-for-profit organization with 50 years of experience improving the management of the nation’s public sector through research, analysis, and counsel. Headquartered in McLean, VA, LMI is a mission-driven organization. We are a trusted advisor to the government—free from commercial or political bias and dedicated to the mission of advancing government management. Our focus is on government consulting, whereby we apply our knowledge, insight, and skills to support public-sector clients. In many cases, our clients must respond to critical national concerns, using limited resources, in a swiftly changing environment. LMI’s clients include nearly every federal agency and service branch (www.lmi. org/Our-Clients). We also support NGOs and state and local governments. For the convenience of our clients, and to better support them, LMI has a presence in more than a dozen locations across the country.

LMI’s Southwest Regional Office is located in downtown San Antonio, Texas

Dayton, OH, (Wright-Patterson AFB) Aberdeen, MD,

Mechanicsburg, PA (Naval/Army Installations) Baltimore, MD Washington, DC

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Newport News, VA Petersburg, VA (Fort Lee) Huntsville, AL Montgomery, AL (Maxwell AFB) San Antonio, TX St Louis, MO (Scott AFB)

Tampa, FL (McDill AFB)

LMI has a record of superior service, attested to by extensive customer survey feedback. We maintain an overall 99 percent “satisfied” customer rating, and 95 percent of our customers are “more than satisfied” or “extremely satisfied” with our services. Our ISO 9001:2008– certified quality management system ensures services and products of consistently high quality.

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“They are responsive and provide quality products. They consistently exceed my expectations and are extremely user friendly. Bottom line—an absolutely outstanding performance by any measure.” – a recent LMI client

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In addition to LMI’s concern with exceeding our clients’ needs and expectations, we look to our employees for critical feedback and suggestions on policies, processes, and systems. We have established a Change Management Council (CMC) to receive, track, review, and implement or otherwise address this feedback. Many of these suggestions lead to changes or improvements in LMI’s policies, processes, and systems or, in some cases, an explanation why they were not adopted. Since its inception in 2010, our CMC has recorded and dealt with nearly 150 suggestions.

Corporate Profile LMI aspires to be the best-value consulting firm responding to the difficult challenges facing government and public-sector organizations. While pursuing practical solutions to our clients’ pressing problems, we have seen many examples of the knowledge we developed being broadly applied in the public interest. LMI is governed by a Board of Directors, currently consisting of 10 members, and operates with complete integrity, free of commercial and political interest. The directors are reelected each year and have a consecutive term limit of 12 years. To increase the Board’s effectiveness and improve its relationship with management, the Board Governance and Nominating Committee oversees the process for the Board’s performance evaluation annually before reelection. The Board is responsible for evaluating LMI’s achievement of our corporate metrics, which are set at the start of each fiscal year.

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LMI is managed by our corporate officers, led by President and CEO Nelson M. Ford. The Board and corporate officers ensure that LMI identifies and manages the economic, social, and environmental performance of the organization and complies with all federal, state, and local laws, as well as internal policies. It strives to make sure that our operations result in no inadvertent harm to our stakeholders and that we do business with customers and suppliers of sound business character and reputation.

Promoting Sustainability and Producing Results LMI is committed to sustainability externally and internally. Sustainability at LMI means that the organization considers the current and future societal, economic, and environmental needs of our stakeholders and integrates those needs into our mission.

In-House Research Our clients routinely turn to us for consulting support partly on the basis of work we have done internally through the LMI Research Institute. LMI created the Research Institute in 2004 to independently support new research, idea development, and solution discoveries that are innovative and practical and, in many cases, that have bottom-line relevance to government managers, regardless of agency or service branch. In a broad sense, the LMI Research Institute supports our mission through these investigations, seeking synergy through the collaboration of the LMI program areas. Doing so enables us to develop more cross-cutting approaches to the most difficult issues that government leaders face today. To that end, the Research Institute pursues work in three areas: • Innovation and invention, through internal research and development • Thought leadership, through articles, reports, and conferences • Outreach, through academic partnerships, executive forums, and distinguished speakers.

To learn more about the LMI Research Institute and LMI’s academic partnerships, go to: www.lmi.org/LMI-Research-Institute.

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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LMI Culture LMI recognizes that sustainability helps an organization and its people thrive—not just survive—which is why we have been committed to this concept for many years. Recently, the organization has begun formally recognizing the efforts and interests of LMI’s employees toward a sustainable future. The result is the LMI Sustainability Committee, whose more than 30 voluntary members represent each LMI business unit and most program areas. Its purpose is to improve LMI’s sustainable business practices in ways consistent with our overall mission, vision, and core values and for the benefit of our stakeholders (including management and staff, clients, vendors, and the local community). The committee works with LMI management and employees to review, balance, and continuously improve our operations, governance, and corporate actions in relation to the pertinent environmental, economic, and societal issues we face as a company. We value openness and inclusion and enjoy a broad diversity of ethnicity, gender, age, and beliefs at all levels of our organization. Our staff is a mix of experienced hires from the private and public sectors—including military veterans and retired federal civilian employees—and recent college graduates. Our relatively flat organizational structure fosters an atmosphere of mutual respect and support for the work each one of us does. Any staff member can submit ideas for improving LMI’s current social and cultural practices to the CMC through a user-friendly intranet portal. In the last year, it has considered issues of sustainability, training, travel, benefits, and communication. We invest in our employees by offering competitive pay, generous benefits, continuing education opportunities, flexible schedules, performance rewards, and a range of programs that encourage a rich work-life balance. More information on LMI benefits can be found at www. lmi.org/Employee-Benefits. 6

LMI continues to be recognized for being a great place to work. We have earned honors as • one of “Washington’s Great Places to Work” by Washingtonian magazine, • one of the Principal 10 Best Companies for Employee Financial Security, and • a “Best for Vets” top career option by Military Times EDGE magazine.

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Staff members stay with LMI an average of 7 years, and more than one-quarter have been with LMI for 10 years or longer. Within the last year, approximately one-half of our new hires have come through employee referrals—a testament to the enthusiasm of our employees for LMI.

Development of Current Employees LMI provides a sustainable culture by nurturing employees, personally and professionally. Training. LMI employees participate in an average of 15 hours of training per year. We provide a broad array of technical, management, and internal policies and procedures training, along with individual skills workshops, seminars, conferences, and classes. To help our employees reach their full potential, these sessions are held both on and off site, and through online and Webex applications.

Career Development Review. LMI’s automated Performance Management and Evaluation Program (PMEP) provides an electronic platform for creating and storing performance plans and self-evaluations based on employees’ accomplishments against their plan. LMI uses the results of the PMEP as input toward goal setting and annual salary evaluations. Professional Development. LMI offers tuition assistance for degree programs to salaried employees. In addition, we assist with educational courses or training programs that are not in the LMI professional development program but contribute to its work objectives. Professional certification and licensure assistance is also offered to salaried and hourly employees. LMI encourages its staff members to maintain professional affiliations relevant to their work. Physical Fitness. LMI encourages the total well-being of its employees. Many of our locations offer 24-hour access to fitness facilities. If a location does not have access to a fitness center, LMI provides assistance toward gym membership. In addition, LMI employees can attend a number of employer- and employee-sponsored events, such as yoga classes, ski trips, softball, golf, the Army Ten-Miler, and the LMI 3-Miler. Retirement Planning. LMI was chosen as one of the Principal 10 Best Companies for Employee Financial Security, acknowledging that our retirement program is among the best in the industry and in the entire Washington metropolitan area, because it provides a strong foundation for life outside the workforce.

LMI holds a 3 mile run/walk twice each year

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Development of Future Employees LMI believes that fostering relationships with potential future employees enables a sustainable hiring model. We support and participate in a number of critical mentoring programs.

Training with Industry. LMI has been a partner of the Department of Defense (DoD) Training with Industry program since 1993. This program gives military personnel and civilians in federal, state, and local government valuable, practical experience working in a commercial industry. We provide trainees with many of the same professional development opportunities offered to full-time employees. These include skills development workshops, computer training courses, professional seminars and conferences, and visiting speaker events. Public Policy Fellows. The Public Policy Fellows program is a year-long professional development opportunity for outstanding new graduates with master’s degrees from a select group of participating schools, who want to contribute to LMI’s public-service mission. The program combines varied project work, internal and external professional training, and mentoring. Co-op Program. The LMI co-op program gives college students the chance to integrate coursework with full-time, meaningful employment. It is an opportunity for them to enhance the knowledge they acquired in academia by working with experts in their fields on real-world projects for our government clients. Internship Program. The LMI Internship Program allows promising undergraduate and graduate students to explore career opportunities, develop job skills, and earn income, while giving LMI the benefit of new energy and talent. Wounded Warrior Career Opportunities. LMI is also a strong supporter of the Wounded Warriors career program, hiring the most capable, creative, and experienced veterans to support LMI’s mission-driven work.

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Cornell University Engineering recognized LMI with a Supervisor of the Year award for excellence in mentoring

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Full-time and eligible part-time LMI employees receive a comprehensive, industry-competitive benefits package, which includes health insurance options, flexible spending accounts, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP), sick and annual leave, and holidays. More information on the benefits LMI offers can be found at www.lmi.org/Employee-Benefits. To provide a solid footing for healthy living, LMI hosts an annual health and fitness fair for employees and their families. The fair features screenings, seminars, healthy cooking demonstrations, and vendor booths. Each October, LMI provides flu shots for employees and their families.

Community Involvement LMI understands that corporate responsibility goes beyond our integrity in dealing with clients to developing sustainable approaches that contribute to the local community. Fundamentally, LMI’s mission emphasizes public service. We value our role in improving the operation of the federal government and, in the process, the lives of all Americans. The venue for our work is often not limited to our clients’ project sites. As an organization and as individuals, we actively give back to the communities in which we work and live. From blood drives for the American Red Cross to holiday gifts for children in local foster care, LMI’s commitment to community manifests itself in many ways. Some of the larger programs our company supports include the following:

Children’s Hospital. Every holiday season since 1989, LMI employees have held a potluck luncheon at LMI headquarters to raise money for the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. The event has raised more than $250,000 over the past two decades.

LMI participates in the annual Heart Walk in Washington, DC

Fallen Heroes Project. LMI is an official corporate supporter of Seattle portrait artist Michael Reagan’s Fallen Heroes Project. Reagan, a Vietnam veteran, draws personalized portraits of the fallen, which he provides to the families free of charge.

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Wreaths Across America. LMI participates in “Wreaths Across America,” a program to promote veterans remembrance. To date, the LMI Charity Committee has purchased nearly 100 wreaths to lay on the graves of American war veterans at Arlington National Cemetery. LMI Charity Program. For other ways to contribute to charitable causes, employees can take advantage of the Charity Program. Its mission is to make financial contributions to local charities where our staff or family members invest their time and talents. The program encourages a spirit of volunteerism in the staff while making our local communities better places to live and work. Holiday Gifts for Children. LMI has conducted an annual holiday gift/donation drive for the past 6 years to benefit children in foster care. The LMI staff has donated gifts for more than 250 children, with each child receiving 2 to 3 gifts. Food drive for an Alexandria, Virginia food pantry

More information about our community efforts can be found at www.lmi.org/CommunityOutreach.

ECONOMIC PROSPERITY LMI’s economic viability is critical to sustaining our mission of improving government management, and our economic success directly reflects the value we bring our government clients.

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In 2010, LMI had 914 employees (655 salaried and 259 hourly) and $208.2 million in funding. The graph above depicts our annual funding since FY00. Our funding has grown steadily over time, verifying that our corporate mission and emphasis on sustainability are successfully serving the needs of our clients. LMI has a long history of supporting government agencies, particularly those in DoD, but we have increasingly diversified the skills and expertise we offer our public-sector partners. We have also provided our services to international, local, and state government entities, although our core focus remains service to federal government managers. The following chart shows the breakdown of funding by client type, which includes virtually every federal department and agency.

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Our exceptional employees sustain our economic growth. A key element of LMI’s success is reflected in our low turnover rate—8.2 percent in 2010—about one-half the industry average in the Washington, DC, area. LMI’s high retention rate ensures that our clients have a stable, secure, and dependable team of skilled consultants working on their behalf. The figure on the next page depicts the turnover rate for LMI since 2006.

We helped the U.S. Customs and Border Protection save $75 million dollars on constructionrelated supplies for the U.S.-Mexican border fence.

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“LMI’s reputation as a strong mentor and supporter of small businesses is well deserved,” SECAF Chairman Shiv Krishnan said. “By honoring LMI, we hope other organizations follow their lead as an affirmed partner to the small business community.”

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To diversify and enrich offerings to our clients, LMI frequently supplements its own in-house resources by teaming with other businesses. We take great pride in our efforts to team with small businesses, which, in turn, have special capabilities that help us achieve the best results. LMI often facilitates the first exposure of these organizations to the federal contracting arena. In doing so, we seek to exceed the small business goals of our government clients. The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum (SECAF) honored LMI as the 2010 “Small Business Partner of the Year” due to our continued dedication to and mentoring of small businesses.

LMI was honored in 2010 as the Small Business Partner of the Year by SECAF

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LMI also serves as a mentor to small business partners through formal mentor-protégé programs. These activities, established and monitored by various federal agencies, include offering training classes, business development team support, and proposal expertise. Currently, LMI is mentoring T3 Government Strategies, Inc., and Integrity Management Consulting, Inc.

LMI maintains corporate memberships in various associations—such as the National Defense Industrial Association and Association of the United States Army—that represent our counterparts and can help strengthen and grow our capabilities for our clients. LMI is a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC); in 2009, Nelson M. Ford, LMI President and CEO, was named to its Board of Directors. NVTC is a membership association for the technology community in Northern Virginia, with 1,100 member companies representing more than 200,000 employees. One of its roles is to be a public policy advocate on a broad range of technology issues at the state and regional levels.

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP Corporate Initiatives We are committed to protecting the environment, reducing environmental risks, and minimizing the negative environmental consequences of our operations.

We help our clients implement alternative power sources

Energy The more than 900 consultants, research fellows, and support staff who collaborate on LMI’s mission of helping government perform better require a significant supply of energy. LMI’s energy is predominantly electricity, most of it used at our headquarters building in McLean, VA, and our satellite offices. LMI’s energy consumption also includes fuels used for internal backup generators and corporate vehicles. Because we occupy leased office space, we have limited control over many operational aspects of our building spaces, but we are nevertheless involved in efforts to reduce overall energy use. We are committed to buying Energy Star products when available, and nearly 100 percent of our laptops, desktops, and monitors are Energy Star compliant. Within our leased office space, we have requested that all updates in lighting and fixtures use energyefficient equipment, including T-8 fluorescent lights and motion sensors in office space. For office space without motion sensors, we request that employees turn off lights in conference rooms and offices when they are unoccupied. LMI takes a progressive and proactive stance on telework, enabling each new hire to work remotely, when needed, from their first day with LMI. This reduces LMI’s immediate energy use as well as the environmental price of commuting. These efforts may be responsible for our overall decrease in electricity use for operations from FY08 to FY09.

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Greenhouse Gases Because the federal government committed to accounting for and reducing its GHG emissions in 2009, LMI has adopted the same policy. We conducted our first-ever GHG inventory in FY08–09, and data collection for FY10 is expected to begin soon. LMI’s GHG emissions, which include scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, were estimated at 7,958.6 metric tons of CO2e in FY08 and 7,929.1 metric tons of CO2e in FY09. Emissions decreased slightly from 2008 to 2009, largely driven by a decrease in demand for electricity. LMI’s largest emissions source after electricity is commuting, so we are taking a number of steps to reduce our commuting carbon footprint. Dozens of LMI employees participate in the annual National Bike-to-Work Day. LMI’s Aberdeen office in Belcamp, MD, has been awarded Harford County’s “Bike-to-Work Trophy” for 2 consecutive years for having more employees bike to work than any other company of comparable size.

LMI’s Aberdeen Office has won Harford County’s Bike-to-Work trophy two years in a row.

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LMI is currently working to develop and implement a comprehensive GHG reduction strategy, including an evaluation of our electricity usage, business travel, and fleet vehicles. In the future, we hope to develop both short- and long-term plans to substantively reduce emissions.

Material Use and Recycling LMI is a government consulting organization, so our most significant material use is office equipment, mainly in the form of office paper and computer equipment. LMI is committed to procuring recycled paper products and green products when they are available. During FY10, more than 67 percent of the office paper we purchased contained recycled content. LMIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Services division collects and recycles used office equipment, and during FY10 it collected 120 pounds of compact disks or diskettes and more than 330 pounds of retired batteries, in addition to expired printer ink and toner cartridges and used binders. LMI also collects and recycles paper, aluminum, and plastics.

Annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup, organized by the Alice Ferguson Foundation

LMIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s potable and irrigation-use water comes primarily from the Potomac River watershed. To reduce internal usage, LMI provides hand sanitizers at nearly all wash basins. In addition, restrooms in our building are equipped with low-flow toilets and faucets with shutoff sensors. Showers in our exercise facility are equipped with low-flow showerheads. In FY10, LMI generated approximately 160 tons of waste. To increase staff recycling and to support recycling of household items, the LMI Sustainability Committee organizes spring and fall recycling events to coincide with Earth Day and America Recycles Day. At both events, employees can bring in clothing, electronics, office supplies, and eyeglasses for recycling. The 2010 Earth Day event collected more than a hundred items of clothing that LMI donated to wounded Soldiers at Walter Reed through a locally run program.

Commitment to Future LMI has made important progress in environmental protection and stewardship over the past decade, and we are striving to improve our performance into the future. LMI is now developing and setting its GHG reduction goals. The Sustainability Committee is continuously working to improve our operations and increase our use of sustainable products and solutions. The group is collaborating with LMI leadership and the corporate CMC to identify and prioritize sustainability initiatives. Most recently, this included a comprehensive inventory of recycling receptacles and their usage patterns and a recommendation regarding the procurement of sustainable office products.

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Moving forward, LMI will develop corporate sustainability goals to guide our efforts. One of these goals is to consider and give preference to any future real-estate sites with sustainable design and building components. Similarly, when renovating space, we will make every effort to “green” the environment using effective strategies, technologies, and practices.

Realizing a Sustainable Government LMI helps agencies and service branches develop and implement policies for reducing energy and water consumption, limiting GHG emissions, using renewable and alternative sources of energy, preventing pollution, and reducing use of toxic and hazardous chemicals and materials. With funding provided by the LMI Research Institute, several members of LMI’s Energy and Environment group developed a Federal Leaders Guide to Climate Change, a well-founded, unbiased, public, and nonpartisan introduction to how climate change will affect the operation of the federal government. The guide presents the scientific and technological basis for an active response to laws, regulations, and executive orders. Its chapters deal with climate policy, the science of climate change, national and regional programs to curb greenhouse gases, carbon management, the impacts of climate change on federal agencies, adaptation strategies, and international implications of climate change. The guide seeks to broaden a federal leader’s perspective on climate change and facilitates successful interaction with other agencies and governments to optimize the U.S. government’s response to this global challenge. In addition, LMI has developed the Climate Change Knowledge Engine (LMI-CliCKE), an innovative web-based platform for accessing reliable expert knowledge on the challenges brought on by climate change that federal and state leaders are facing. LMI-CliCKE presents nearly 3,000 existing, peer-reviewed findings from the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), established by the leading bodies for assessing climate change: the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). LMI-CliCKE makes these findings easily accessible for the first time by organizing them in a way that is both easy to navigate and informative, enabling public-sector managers and the climate change community to quickly find out what is known (and not known) about specific aspects of climate change and associated uncertainty.

A Federal Leader’s Guide to Climate Change

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LMI experts are furthering sustainability initiatives by acting as leaders in GHG accounting for the public sector. They have codeveloped the U.S. Public Sector Protocol for GHG Accounting and Reporting, a joint initiative with the World Resources Institute that offers valuable and unique lessons learned to help agencies efficiently craft successful reporting results in GHG

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tracking. Through this work, our team members continue to be recognized as authorities on developing guidelines and tools for federal agencies. We have partnered effectively with a wide variety of agencies to help them fulfill GHG accounting and reporting requirements within their resource constraints. LMI developed the Sustainable Building Assessment Tool (SBAT) to help our clients assess their facilities’ compliance with the High Performance Sustainable Building Guiding Principles and estimate a score according to the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. The SBAT is a module of our Infrastructure Condition Assessment Model (I•CAM), a mobile-to-web software application for conducting routine facility condition assessments, reviewing deficiencies, analyzing recapitalization requirements, and developing performance-based budgets.

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We recommend sustainable infrastructure solutions to our clients— and to ourselves.

For the past decade, LMI has been a leader in supply chain sustainability. Since 2001, when LMI conducted an internal research effort into supply chain sustainability, our research and projects in this field have grown significantly. Today, LMI is recognized as a leader in supply chain sustainability, not only in government operations but also commercial supply chains. Three recent supply chain sustainability efforts typify our capabilities and experience: GreenSCOR, the GHG Protocol Scope 3 (supply chain) and Product Standards, and the GAIA Supply Chain Sustainability Maturity Model. The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is the most widely used analytical framework for describing, evaluating, and improving supply chain performance across industries. In 2002, the DoD Assistant Deputy Undersecretary for Supply Chain Integration asked LMI to determine whether the SCOR model could also serve as a framework for supply chain sustainability. The result was the GreenSCOR model—recognized with the Supply Chain Council’s 2003 Award for Supply Chain Academic Excellence—now fully integrated into the latest version of the SCOR model. GreenSCOR is used by many organizations, such as Dell and DuPont, to manage sustainability in the supply chain. LMI continues to work with the Supply Chain Council and its community to maintain the GreenSCOR elements.

LMI is a technical working group chair for developing the GHG Protocol accounting standards for supply chains and products, led by the World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development. LMI has led in developing boundary setting and emissions allocation requirements for the products standard and participated in meetings of the Working Group Chair and Steering Committee throughout development. LMI Sustainability Report

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Dashboard includes a full range of metrics related to power, space and cooling and energy audits and greenhouse gases.

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Using internal research funding, LMI developed the GAIA Sustainable Supply Chain Maturity Model for evaluating the sustainability of supply chain operations. The GAIA model is based on current business and supply chain sustainability practices, capabilities, and trends. It helps organizations quickly assess their current capabilities and identify an approach to improve them. The modelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s value is in its application: it allows managers to implement programs that will best meet their financial and customer service goals while reducing the impact of their operations on the environment. Recently, a report by the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders program, Managing Supply Chain Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Lessons Learned for the Road Ahead, cited the GAIA model as a resource for companies looking to improve their sustainability practices.

ABOUT THIS REPORT This report meets the GRI G3 Sustainability Reporting Guidelines in conjunction with its NGO Sector Supplement. The GRI profile for this sustainability report is available at www.lmi.org/SustainabilityReportTables, which explains how the content relates to the GRI guidelines. This report was prepared by an internal LMI team, and the content covers baseline data through calendar year 2010. LMI plans to continue to report progress against the data baselined in this report annually. Because this is LMIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first sustainability report, it leverages existing internal data along with ongoing existing stakeholder priorities. The data disclosed in this report are as accurate and complete as possible.

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