Joshua Skov

Principal
Good Company

Joshua Skov's primary role is supporting clients with the development of indicators and assessment tools. As a principal, Skov is involved in a wide range of corporate and government client work. He also leads Good Company's higher education practice.

Skov combines extensive experience with sustainability indicators and expertise in economics with the ability to communicate issues of sustainability in a practical and meaningful manner. His research and consulting have assisted corporations, universities and public agencies in understanding how the challenge of sustainability relates to their organizations, assessing social and environmental performance, and implementing measures to address these emerging issues.

Skov leads Good Company's climate practice. He has designed, implemented or advised GHG inventory and climate action planning efforts for many public, private and higher education organizations.

In the higher education sector, he led the effort to create Good Company's Sustainable Pathways Toolkit, a path-breaking effort to provide campuses with a tool for taking a snapshot of sustainability performance.

Skov is also an adjunct instructor in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management at the University of Oregon, and at the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego. He has served on citizen advisory committees of Eugene Water and Electric Board (for electric resource planning) and the Metropolitan Wastewater Management Commission (for the development of systems development charges (SDCs)). He is a City Council appointee to the Sustainability Commission of the City of Eugene.

Skov earned an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds an M.A. from the University of Washington and a B.A. from Yale University. Skov is a LEED™ Accredited Professional.

Skov appears regularly at conferences to speak about sustainability and climate issues.

Workshops:

• Power of Purchasing: Sustainable Procurement
• Sustainability Indicators and Assessment for Government
• Climate Policy, Carbon Credits and Business Risk
• Energy and Climate Action Planning

Presenters

• Dorothy Atwood
• Molly Chidsey
• Darin Dinsmore
• Chris Forney
• Jason Franklin, AICP
• Kevin Halsey
• Darcy Hitchcock
• Kelly Hoell
• Nicole Isle
• Paul Kuck
• Erin Leitch
• Joshua Proudfoot
• Leslie Scott
• Stephen Senge
• Susan Serres, PE
• Joshua Skov
• Aaron Toneys
• John Wallner
• Dennis Wilde
• Marsha Willard
• Nancy Wilson
• Robert Young

The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution
committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.