Verdis Group is excited to announce the LOVErdis 2025 winner of a free greenhouse gas inventory!

Frist Art Museum is Verdis Group’s fifth annual LOVErdis winner! We created this program in 2019 as a way to enable a community organization to address some of its biggest sustainability challenges at no cost. Previous LOVErdis winners include Joslyn Art Museum (2019), the Jewish Federation of Omaha (2022), Habitat for Humanity Omaha (2023), and Nemours Children’s Health (2024).

Dr. Seth Feman, Executive Director and CEO, said that the Frist aims to model sustainable practices, and they are looking forward to kicking off their GHG inventory.

“The Frist Art Museum is honored to be the 2025 LOVErdis recipient, and we look forward to working with Verdis Group to minimize our carbon footprint. The Frist strives to be a hub and platform for creativity and civic discourse, and we welcome this opportunity to model sustainable practices across the cultural sector and the Nashville community. By reducing our energy impact, we can invest more resources directly into our mission, helping to ensure that we bring art and people together for generations to come.”

Dr. Seth Feman, Executive Director and CEO, Frist Art Museum

The first step toward achieving realistic and measurable sustainability progress is to measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels and understand their sources. Moreover, the goal of annual GHG inventories is to support both short-term and long-term mitigation decisions, increase awareness of sustainability efforts, and provide accountability to key parties. 

Daniel Lawse, Principal and Chief Century Thinker at Verdis Group, explained that the company feels a deep obligation to help community non-profits.

“Cultural organizations are community leaders and foundational to thriving communities. That’s why we’re thrilled to partner with Frist Art Museum and share our LOVErdis program with the Nashville community. We’re deeply committed to ensuring cultural institutions have the technical support they need to make meaningful progress on sustainability. Their actions inspire countless others to follow suit. That ripple effect is exactly what we need to co-create a thriving and resilient world for all.”

Daniel Lawse, Principal and Chief Century Thinker, Verdis Group

The Verdis project team and Frist Art Museum’s key parties will kick off the project in the summer of 2025. 

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About the Frist Art Museum

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Frist Art Museum opened in 2001 and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art exhibition center dedicated to presenting and originating high-quality exhibitions with related educational programs and community outreach activities. Located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., the Frist Art Museum offers the finest visual art from local, regional, national, and international sources in exhibitions that inspire people through art to look at their world in new ways.

The Frist is a non-collecting museum and presents on average 12–15 exhibitions a year from some of the most prestigious collections in the world, as well as award-winning shows organized in-house. For more information, visit fristartmuseum.org. 

About Verdis Group

Founded in 2009, Verdis Group is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, with staff in Arizona, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland. Verdis Group, a certified B Corp, offers consulting services for climate action planning and implementation to museums, zoos, aquariums, architecture firms, the financial services industry, municipalities, and more. Our knowledge of climate impacts and vulnerabilities, combined with our ability to collaboratively develop strategies, allows us to offer an unparalleled level of service. B Corps meet highly verified standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.