About Us
Our mission is to help businesses, communities, and regions create sustainable solutions for a resilient economic future.
The solutions we pursue also stimulate a stable and diverse work force, enhance watershed health, develop food and energy security, and provide for the fulfillment of all human beings. Our mission is supported through local and regional planning, research and education, agricultural restoration, and entrepreneurial development.
Background & Purpose
Economic Restoration Services was born out of a need to develop enduring solutions to social, environmental, and economic challenges faced by an increasing mass of humanity in the US and abroad. Our founder’s three decades of work and research in business, conservation and restoration was woven into the book Ecosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies, a systemic approach to sustainability. Nature’s blueprints for economic restoration include three foundational components that must be managed to achieve a sustainable economy: diversity, energy, and trade. Over the past century these components have been increasingly managed at global scales, leading to significant social, economic, and economic challenges for nations of all development levels. The decentralized nature of complex ecosystems makes clear that economic diversity, energy, and trade must be managed at regional scales. Economic restoration is not only possible, but it is our obligation.
What is Economic Restoration?
Current references to economic restoration are related to the economic value of ecological restoration (e.g., the restoration economy), or beautifying urban areas. Those references have no relation to restoring economic processes or functions. Guiding our work to build sustainable economies, we use this definition of Economic restoration: The process of rebuilding economic diversity, trade, and energy systems within a regional economy. To learn more about the ecological and economic underpinnings of economic restoration, hard copy and digital copies of Ecosystems as Models for Restoring Our Economies are available by following this link.
Who We Are
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John Giordanengo
Principle Restoration Economist / Ecologist & CEO
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Cheryl Giordanengo
Chief Financial Officer
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Andreas Broxson
Economic Analyst
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Lydia Lazar
Policy Advisor & Analyst
Strategic Partners
Our staff bring diverse and deep value to our clients not only through our own experience, but through strategic relationships with trusted partners. Leveraging our skills and resources with those of our partners, we craft custom project teams to address a wide range of client needs efficiently and effectively. These partners include marketing firms, architectural firms, engineering firms, ecological firms, and others.
Connect
To engage Economic Restoration Services in your project, or to schedule a speaking engagement or training, please follow this link. Please provide some basic information about your project, or your goals and needs, and we will be in touch shortly.