In  April  of  2014,  Ethos,  assisted  Biohabitats,  Inc.  in  completion  of  Phase  I  of  a  multi-­‐year  adaptive  management  and  restoration  planning  process  for  the  200  acre  Omega  Institute  campus  in  the  scenic  Hudson  River  Valley.  The  assessment  phase  included  baseline  inventorying  and  analysis  of  regional  landscape  ecology;  campus  forest,  wetland,  and  stream  condition;  energy  operations  and  carbon  emissions;  and  living  and  developed  infrastructure  condition  and  needs  assessment.  Assessment  findings  and  recommendations  for  the  Phase  II  master  plan  development  were  presented  within  a  comprehensive  adaptive  management  framework.  Ethos  led  the  establishment  of  the  operational  energy  and  greenhouse  gas  emissions  baseline  for  the  campus  and  provided  contributions  to  the  living  and  built  infrastructure  assessment  elements  of  Phase  I.    

The  Omega  Center  for  Sustainable  Living  (OSCL)  designed  by  BNIM,  John  Todd  Ecological  Design,  and  Biohabitats  is  the  first  building  worldwide  to  achieve  both  Living  Building  Challenge  &  LEED  Platinum  certification.  As  an  ecologically-­‐engineered  wastewater  facility  for  the  campus,  the  OCSL  was  key  component  of  both  the  living  and  built  infrastructure  benchmarked  and  assessed  during  Phase  I.