Jackson got interested in conservation at the science museum in Boston. >> You know, he I >> actually go for it. He got interested in he he wrote every paper he ever wrote was about the jungle because he went to Bise when he was nine. He was kind of scared to death but he he was always interested in in the jungle and then he went to work when his first job was at the uh science museum. >> One of the first pictures I saw of him was with a ball constrictor wrapped around him. Uh so he worked for a while for Fawn and Floor International, but you know, prior to that in in his in his life, you know, he he went to South Africa on one project and he was wrestling, you know, crocodiles so they could tag crocodiles. Um I we went for a trip out to Montana to Glacier.
You are part of the process each and every step of the way. You don't leave you out of it. You're part of the process. We collaborate with you each and every project. Okay? And we design and engineer based upon our conversation. We manage the construction. We in terms of financial services, okay? We don't do them. We don't finance the project, okay? But we help you in any way we can. You normally have a board of FAs that you work with, etc. We we help in that process in terms of giving the FAs what they need, what the project is all about, okay? So, we help in that. Support services for the project, performance guarantee, I mentioned that. Outreach and engagement. One of the things we do in Schneider is you'll see this in a couple of slides. We are a large company. One of the things we pride ourselves on is supplying you, the client, is when we're doing a project with you, we have a vast team of public Okay?
Uh his assignment there was taking a census of the grizzly bears. Hello, Mr. Grizzly Bear. Can I take a blood sample, please? Um there was he's done some interesting things. Um the next fellow in the line um over here is uh if I can read my own notes here. Um >> Sam Leslie >> is is Samuel Leslie. Um Samuel's first project, he was from the States, but his first project was in Mongolia. And lo and behold, he's got a Mongolian uh wife. and his organization is the International Union of Conservation of Nature. There are 1,400 different government and civil membership organizations that form the IUCN. They are the authorities on on extinction and and other aspects of what's happening in in the wildlife community. Nick Spencer is a Brit. He was involved in building highways and kind of the conservation elements if you will of of highway logistics.
Whatever you would like to do, however you would like to put out information, how you're doing, our team of PR people will provide that service to you. That's part of what we do. I would assume most of you do. So, we know you don't have the ability to have a whole PR So, we help in that respect. We have our team work with you. You'll see some examples. Sorry. E-sub process is a process. Joe mentioned a local government energy audit. Okay? That is something that the BPU requires that every public entity do prior to being able to do E-sub. A local government energy uh the local government energy audit through TRC, which is the only entity the state has contracted with to do a local government That is of no cost to you. It is covered under the societal benefits charge. That's on every electric I think it's covered by TRC However, there is a backlog to go through.
He got recruited by World Conservation Society and now he is the the CEO of the Ibis Rice Company which we'll talk about. Um Alistister Mold is the one who was born in Brunai. His father was a British officer. He's never lived in the UK. He's been to like eight other countries but never made it back to the UK. Um he's also on the board of directors of of Irish Rice and he runs a number of the uh projects in Cambodia. Um this is uh Reine Woff. This woman is amazing. She has she's German. She has lived in Cambodia, Thailand, Singapore, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Austria, Rwanda, and briefly South Africa. She's also worked in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, eraser in the Balkans, specifically the Republic of Georgia, Central Asia, and the Portuguese-speaking West African countries of Cabo Verdie and Sal. >> And she's only 18.
So, if you haven't done a local government energy audit and you want to go through with TRC, there is a significant backlog, okay, to do that. Uh or the BPU says, "Hey, you can do it yourself." Meaning, you can go out, you can hire your own uh uh energy auditor and do your own It's called ASHRAE Level Two audit. ASHRAE is on your acronym list, okay, and what it's kids for. So, uh you have options. If you want to go quicker in the process, then you do it yourself and guess what? E-sub's going to E-sub's going to pay. When I say pay, you're going to make up that cost of that energy audit by doing the E-sub through those savings. Okay? So, time is money. The longer you drag it out, more expensive things get. You move quicker, you get lower costs, okay, and possibly uh get your project done much, much quicker.
No, >> these people no longer have a particular national identity. >> They are world citizens and they are about making the world a better place. It's it's pretty amazing. And lastly, um, Rachel Kurthers, who spent the last 15 years of her life in the jungle studying the elephants and just got her PhD >> from the work with the elephants. So, pretty amazing uh people. Um, and it was just such a pleasure to uh to be with them. So, a little bit about some of the organizations real quick. A lot of Jackson's experience has been with primates. Uh we visited him uh in Surinam a number of years ago. Um you've never lived until you've watched a uh capin monkey bite into a very large um meie not memory >> and larvae from >> and and get sprayed with it. You know >> um I mentioned um you know the uh crocodiles in South Africa.
Okay? Uh with that, I'll let you review, but there is a process that you go through. That process takes, roughly speaking, going through it, you know, with the with the general probably takes about 12 12 months maybe go through that that process. But, selecting Schneider Electric, we're going through that process with you. Okay? And by the way, so uh so Marketing services, what I talked about. Here are all the things that we would offer you, that we offer all of our clients, okay? And appropriate. All right? We PR media. That's press releases. That's social media. Uh you know, custom branding of your project, message support, digital tools. I mean, our We have some of the best in the business. What we call solutions. What's out there to help show your community, to put out to your community, what what you are doing, okay? To benefit your students, to benefit your efficiencies throughout the district.
um he used some of that knowledge and when he got to Cambodia um he was instrumental in getting the project going to rescue the uh Siamese um crocodile right u in in in there um the organization itself of conservation international is involved in lots of land conservation they do a lot of aerial work to find out if trees are being poached or anything like that um it's you know they have what does it say? Um 100,000 um let's see I lost track of that one. I'll come back to it. But at any rate, let me just move on. Um so there's Nick again. Um they came up with this wonderful phrase over here, the real taste of conservation. uh they're not marketing yet in the US, but so successful has been their work with these farmers in terms of the sustainable rice production that they were able to build a factory and start to manufacture rice cakes and rice cereal.
We help We help you get that message out, okay? In a very professional manner. Next one. In terms of now, we've we've spoken with your administration, uh and um we uh we'd like to come in and look at a business case. And I think we're we're set up to do that. That costs you nothing, okay? Where we come in, we do a an evaluation of your facilities, very brief, high-level, okay? We would come in the number of facilities you have, probably a day or two, just to look and see what's there, and see what opportunities you may have for EC. Okay? Um that is in the works right now, okay? That costs you nothing. We do that for a row. That's what we do at Grace. And we would present to you something like the illustration after we review, develop a report we put together what we call business case and say this is what we see as your opportunity at a high level.
Um they're in Canada, they're in Europe someday. He said the US market is too complex. He had some other words for it too, but um but he he is quite a personality. He is a fun human being to work with. His wife is half Cambodian and half American. >> No, no, his wife Oh, yeah. His wife is half half Mongolian. >> Alistair's wife is Cambodian. >> Yes. >> Um, so here's a picture of some of the uh the territory with the with the rice patties and and and the forest. And this is, you know, taken right off their their web page. So they have 51,000 community members, Cambodian community members involved in their project. So there's 51,000 people that are families that are being employed, if you will, and fed uh through this effort. Um, one of the sad >> and and I think the you know, these are not topdown kinds of projects.
What we see you can do if you wanted to move forward looking at these prices. Okay? So, no there's no uh you know, you're you're you're not obligated to do anything. It's no risk. You're just doing that more investigation to see what opportunities are there for you. Okay? Uh and then as I said, the executives and the LGPA application for your part of that next steps. Sorry. Okay, I have two two references just to show you. One just down the road by the way. We just completed a project at the Florence Township public schools. Uh it was just under a $5 million project overall. Uh these are the things that they that they received in that project and uh I invite you to know anybody from Florence Township or from the school district, uh you know, fellow administrator uh administrators or members, please feel free to ask them but very successful project.
They're all really involving the uh the local population. They are most of the people that work in Jackson's office are Kamai people which is the the people of Cambodia and that the same would be true here. Um there is you know as an international head often of these but they do as much as possible empower the the local people which is I think why it works. >> All of these organizations by the way suffered with the cancellation of USA ID. >> Oh my god. So, um, families, lost jobs, whatever. So, um, yeah, you're on. >> So, Aho is an international humanitarian charitable organization which in Cambodia uses trained African giant pouched rats to help find landmines. A hero rat, you can see that Remy is holding one there, um, as they are called, can search the area the size of a tennis court in 30 minutes.
Uh excellent excellent project and great solar system. Thanks. By the way, that project this is just closing out. Florence. Okay, we just we just entered the process of closing that project. This is the one I just want to spend a minute or so. Paulsboro schools down in Gloucester County. You want to talk about the epitome of what an ESCO should look like. When we first went into the Paulsboro schools, they had about I'm going to say they had about a three three and a half million opportunity for the district, okay? Meaning that's what they could do in terms of energy savings, etc. that could be paid for. Then we went we tried or we went to a a seminar and we found that there was a schools and small business loan program. Uh I shouldn't say loan, uh grant program. That they just opened up a second time with an additional $70 million.
A task that would take human D minors with metal detectors up to 4 days. These rats are intelligent. They're easy to train with a highly developed sense of smell, and they're too light to set off the mines. They can smell a mine even to the depth of over 2 feet. In this way, more than 17,000 miles and other ordinance, unexloded ordinance, have been found and destroyed, allowing many square kilometers of land to be restored to the local communities for farming. They hadn't been able to go onto this land because it was just too dangerous. >> Uh two days before we went to this particular um exhibit, um a farmer had, you know, lost both his legs. He was just plowing the field with a tractor. Yeah. >> 50 years from the time they mined, they still That's right. They're still there. >> I mean, millions of mines.
We jumped right on that with the district and we said, "Hey, let's go after this." We got them another $5 million. Okay? They also had some capital reserve that they wanted to put toward the project with things that savings wasn't covered but they still wanted to do. That was about half a million dollars that they had. They got over $10 million project at no impact to the taxpayer. The ESIP was covered by savings, okay? Those upgrades. The grant covered the cost of other scope items in the district. And the 500,000 of capital reserve, well that was money they had, okay? So there was no additional money raised. So $10 million of a project with zero impact on the taxpayer, they were able to put all new unit ventilators in all three of the buildings. Plus air conditioning. Okay? One of the buildings. To get rid of all of the window units in that building.
Um, they have a demonstration and training facility, a popular tourist spot, um, in CMRE. Um, we went there because Olivia's, my four-year-old granddaughter's best friend, insisted that we go there. Aruni said, "We're going to. That's what she wanted to do. Um, when this effort started, Cimeair Rouge gorillas were still active in the remote jungle. And in 1996, they murdered two D minors, Huen who was Camair, and Christopher House of Brit. Herorat House was named for Chris and is working now in as his legacy. They put a little harness on the rack on the rack >> and one guy walks down one side of the path, the other guy walks down the other side um of this area that hasn't yet been tested and they they have a guide wire attached to their ankle and they hook to the to the rat's harness and the rat goes and scouries the path, smells it, it digs a little and then moves on and they throw a little flag where the digging took place and they go that way.
Okay? Uh plus other scope items, lighting included. Okay? You talk about what ESIP was putting. And I apologize to the North Carolina Department of Transportation. That was a mistake. Uh to qualify for that ESIP from another project, that that's my error. Anyway, that's what Paul's firm uh was able to experience. That project we just closed out 1 year ago.
They do a whole field. It it was just an amazing >> The rats have a pretty nice life, too. Actually, they they only have to work during the part of the day when it's not too hot and they work for about six years and then they can retire on social security. >> Yeah. So, social security. Yeah. >> Okay. This is Smiling Gecko campus and it's another example of a project started and funded internationally which benefits the poorest of the poor in Cambodia. In 2014, Hannis Schmidt, a Swiss artist and amazing photographer, started this campus. He purchased land about an hour and a half outside of Penon Pen. He provided a school for local children and housing for several families who were living in the massive dumps outside of the city. By providing these people with security and teaching them some skills, the project has grown into a campus which now includes a cultural arts center, K through2 education for upwards of a thousand children, agriculture and husbandry, a fish farm, which was incredible, craftsmanship and production, and providing humanitarian emergency aid.
That finished up in I apologize for a little bit of a lengthy part of it, but if you have any questions, comments, I'm happy to answer them before I make the time to and we thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation.