Mission

ADVISE landowners confidentially on innovative conservation strategies to protect, restore and monetize value

ADVOCATE improved standards for green infrastructure, nature based investments, strategic engagement, and market-based solutions.

ACTIVIST transforming status quo thinking into improved Resiliency literacy and mindset for scalable place based solutions .

founder

Sharon E. Richardson

Sharon is mission driven to save the rivers, wetlands and working lands of the Southeast, and restore a healthy relationship between communities and the natural landscapes. The urgency of accelerating threats , demands innovative solutions, focused purpose and authentic partnerships. Building a public benefit corporation leverages her understanding of impact economics, resiliency and conservation expertise and organizational dynamics to influence systemic change.  With decades of conservation finance and policy advancements, brings “out of the box” strategy to leverage private and corporate capital for public funding, and provide innovative proactive policy solutions to address complex conservation and cultural heritage issues in South Carolina.  She inspires action through effective communication, market based solutions, authentic engagement strategies and collaborative win-win partnerships.

Sharon has case study successes in culturally complex and ecologically rich landscape scale protection, land use planning, family negotiations, community engagement, GIS, market based solutions, wetlands conservation and restoration. She provided Executive leadership to local and national conservation organizations, and has consulted with federal, state, and regional NGOs throughout the Atlantic Coast, contributing to hemispheric priorities.

She was born in Bogota, Colombia, and raised in PA. Her three daughters were born in Charleston, SC.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT
Master of Public Administration

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
B.A., Psychology Minor, Religion and Mathematics

Get in touch

Landowners are quick to appreciate landscape scale conservation and scaleable nature based solutions, when it is explained in a way that resonates with their vision. We can help move them beyond barriers to access to information, capital and influence.

We broker niche and nuanced solutions for landowners, communities and corporate leaders that protect, restore and monetize conservation values for public benefits and community impact. Conservation impacts include flood risk mitigation, improved resiliency, land stabilization and wealth generation. We advocate for conservation solutions as drivers for sustainable economic development, brand differentiation, and Sense of Place.

Book an appointment ▸

Leading the way

to healthy lands.

Internships

Zachary S. Ellis

Zachary completed a 6 month internship, while completing his Environmental Engineering degree at Johns Hopkins University.

Zachary’s main project was modeling Resilient Lands Matter’s Stakeholder Engagement Ecosystem using Python’s Bokeh and Networkx libraries. The model is a representation of Resilient Lands Matter’s whole system problem-solving approach. It serves as a tool for situational assessment for Clients and complex social structures. An in-depth description of the model can be found on the Communities page.

Internship experience included evaluating environmental action plans of city governments, project management coordination and assessing conservation impacts related to Carbon Sequestration, flood storage capacity, and air quality improvements for Client reporting.

“From working with Resilient Lands Matter I’ve learned just how much effective communication plays a role in establishing impactful environmental solutions.” -Zachary