7 Sustainable Environmental Consultant Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: November 1st, 2023

Become A Sustainable Environmental Consultant

Here are some real life success stories of starting a sustainable environmental consultant:

1. Sustain Academy ($420K/year)

Auste and Ieva founded Sustain Academy after realizing the lack of practical resources to educate sustainability professionals. They spoke with over 100 field experts and tested their concept in the Lithuanian market before launching their 10-week online sustainability course. The business has since attracted over 100 companies from 10 different countries and uses a combination of PR, social media, email marketing, and personal branding to attract and retain customers.

How much they make: $420K/year
Current team size:

How We Created A $35K/Month Sustainability Online Course

Sustain Academy is an online sustainability academy that offers a 10-week LIVE online sustainability course followed by 1:1 mentorship, taught by the world’s best field experts; so far, more than 100 companies from over 10 different countries have trained their employees with them.

Revenue

Auste grew the business to $35K/month

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Learn more about starting a sustainable environmental consultant:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a sustainable environmental consultant?
-> Pros and cons of a sustainable environmental consultant

Need inspiration?

-> Examples of established sustainable environmental consultant
-> Marketing ideas for a sustainable environmental consultant

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2. Worm Bucket ($78K/year)

Audrey & Rob Wynkoop came up with the idea for the Worm Bucket Indoor Composting Kit after turning to backyard gardening during the pandemic. Rob experimented with various designs for an indoor worm composter to address the limited space of apartment living. Audrey quit her corporate job, built a website, and launched the vermicomposting kit, which has now generated $6,500 in monthly revenue.

How much they make: $78K/year
How much did it cost to start: $25K
Current team size: 1

We Quit Our Jobs And Are Building A $6.5K/Month Composting Business

Husband and wife duo Audrey & Rob Wynkoop built the Worm Bucket, an indoor composting kit for individuals living in apartments and condos, and have now launched on Amazon as well as their own Shopify store, currently doing $6500 in monthly revenue.

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Audrey started Worm Bucket over 2 years ago

Revenue

Audrey grew the business to $6.5K/month

Costs

It cost Audrey $25000 to start the business

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5. Home

New World Development Company Limited ("The Group"; Hong Kong Stock Code: 17.HK) is a leading conglomerate based in Hong Kong. The Group was founded in 1970 and publicly listed in Hong Kong in 1972. It is a constituent stock of the Hang Seng Index with a total asset value of HK$378.5 billion as at 31 December 2014. For more than four decades, the Group has expanded from a single focus on the property business to four core areas - New World China Land Limited, New World Department Store China Limited, NWS Holdings Limited and Chow Tai Fook

Website traffic: 120K/month

6. FIDIC

Website traffic: 50K/month

7. Sustainable Bus

Sustainable Bus is a webmagazine focused on the Electric buses market. Find out more about products, tenders, experiences, case studies, market trends, international exhibitions and congresses concerning Sustainable Bus and mobility.

Website traffic: 30K/month