SDIC moves beyond theory to the actual application of greener practices through coaching and consulting. With its partner companies, SDIC works with organizations, such as governments, non-profits, and for-profits, to identify opportunities for improving organizational activities and operations.

Coaching is tailored to the needs of individual organizations and focuses on one or more of the organization's five components - its mission, employees, facilities and sites, products and services, and operations. It can include the following:

Environmental profile - Involves conducting research to identify greening successes and opportunities. Provides a general organizational environmental overview and a baseline against which an organization can measures its future environmental progress.

Management coaching - Involves working with management to identify high-level organizational issues that affect the environment. These can include any or all of the five aspects of business that need to be greened (see below).

Management training - Involves training management in the five components of greening a business.

Staff coaching - Involves working with staff throughout the organization or in one particular department to identify greening opportunities and potential challenges.

Staff training - Involves providing informative, experiential workshops and other methods of training to enhance staff awareness of environmental issues that relate to their jobs. Helps staff to identify ways in which they can contribute to greening their organizations.

Green team development - Involves working with the organization to develop a green team. This can include representatives from each department and often enables a company to develop a more integrated approach to greening.