measure & improve your COMPANY’S sustainability performance, ALL WHILE BOOSTING PROFITS.
Welcome to Emerger Strategies! We are a sustainability consulting company whose purpose is to protect what we love, and we can assist your company in making the business case for sustainability. As a passionate angler who discovered that pollution, climate change, and habitat degradation were posing significant risks to our fisheries, and sea-level rise, plastic pollution, and overdevelopment were threatening his home in Charleston, SC, our founder, Rick Crawford, decided to do what he could to protect what he loves.
As a passionate angler who was now armed with an MBA in Sustainable Business from Marylhurst University, and several years of experience helping building owners understand the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy and green building, Rick decided to pursue his dream of marrying fly fishing and sustainability. Emerger Strategies was founded in 2016, and began targeting companies in the fly fishing industry to help them measure and improve their sustainability performance.
Along the way, Rick created The Sustainable Angler podcast (2018), which is an award-winning podcast whose purpose is to educate and inspire anglers to protect the planet. In 2020, Crawford founded the Fly Fishing Climate Alliance, which is an alliance of fly fishing guides, shops, lodges, brands and nonprofits committed to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Today, we offer a variety of sustainability consulting services, such as: conducting Sustainability Assessments, Sustainability Reporting, Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Accounting, and providing Sustainable Packaging Solutions to name a few. We also collaborate with our clients to achieve Zero Waste operations, Climate Neutral Certification, and form strategic partnerships with environmental nonprofits through 1% for the Planet. We work with organizations in the fishing industry, such as: RepYourWater, Z-Man Fishing Products, Bajio Sunglasses, Trout Unlimited, American Sportfishing Association and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association, as well as companies outside the fishing industry who sell products to Walmart, Target and REI. Emerger Strategies’ mission is to measure and improve your company’s sustainability performance, all while boosting profits. Discover how our clients are protecting what they love, and proving that doing good is GOOD for business in Our 2023 Impact!
Why Choose Emerger Strategies?
Are you a business owner who loves fishing and spending time outdoors? Are you aware of the environmental impact of your business? Or maybe you are feeling pressure from employees, customers and investors to demonstrate your commitment to sustainability? Either way, there are many reasons to embrace sustainability as a core value of your business, and here’s why you should choose Emerger Strategies:
- Outsourced Sustainability Team: We saved our clients $100,000+ in 2023 by not having to recruit, interview, train and retain a full-time sustainability team.
- Measurable Results: In 2023, we saved our clients $80,000+ through energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, and improved our clients sustainability performance from an average baseline score of 37% to 80% within twelve months of working with Emerger Strategies.
- Credible Communication: We help our clients effectively communicate their sustainability efforts to stakeholders, ensuring transparency and authenticity, all while avoiding “greenwashing” and as a result increased customer loyalty for RepYourWater by 58%.
- We Walk the Walk: We have been a proud 1% for the Planet member since our inception, which means we donate a minimum of 1% of our annual sales to environmental nonprofits. We are also Climate Neutral Certified, which means we have measured our Scope 1, 2 & 3 emissions, have created a Climate Action Plan for reductions, and purchased carbon offsets to achieve climate neutrality.
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Clients & Testimonials
We are proud to be trusted by the world’s most influential brands in the fishing industry, such as: American Sportfishing Association, Trout Unlimited, Z-Man Fishing and others. For a complete list of our clients, check out the Our Clients page.
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Emerger Strategies’ Founder and President, Rick Crawford, is humbled and honored to be named in the “50 Most Influential People” by Charleston Business Magazine in 2023 and “one of the fifteen people, places, and ideas forging the South of tomorrow” by Garden & Gun Magazine in the April/May 2022 fifteenth anniversary issue. Additionally, Emerger Strategies was featured in the 2021 Patagonia film DROP, as well as notable publications such as: The Drake Magazine, Tackle Trade World and In The Bite Magazine.