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Looking forward to a busy #NYCClimateWeek (September 22 - 27). So many exciting meetings and events. Here's just a few of the ones I'm looking…
Looking forward to a busy #NYCClimateWeek (September 22 - 27). So many exciting meetings and events. Here's just a few of the ones I'm looking…
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Les comparto la colaboración de Scot Case , VP, director ejecutivo CSR & Sustainability en el Center for Retail Sustainability de la NRF. National…
Les comparto la colaboración de Scot Case , VP, director ejecutivo CSR & Sustainability en el Center for Retail Sustainability de la NRF. National…
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Transparency and Traceability are at the core of today's Sustainable Supply Chains and Sustainable Organizations. There are new and rapidly emerging…
Transparency and Traceability are at the core of today's Sustainable Supply Chains and Sustainable Organizations. There are new and rapidly emerging…
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Experience & Education
Licenses & Certifications
Volunteer Experience
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Member Board of Directors
Goodwill Keystone Area
- Present 11 months
Poverty Alleviation
Supporting sustainability and circularity efforts so that local individuals and families in need can thrive and flourish.
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Member Board of Directors
SERI
- Present 4 months
Environment
Supporting the electronics industry's efforts to become more sustainable and more circular.
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Ambassador
Berks Nature
- Present 8 years 9 months
Environment
Berks Nature is a local Berks County, Pennsylvania, environmental nonprofit that provides environmental leadership, expertise, land use planning, advocacy, research, and education programs in accordance with the natural, historic, social, economic, and technical needs of the county and its many local communities.
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Climate Leader
The Climate Reality Project
- Present 4 years 1 month
Environment
Volunteer public speaker on how Climate Change is already affecting our local Pennsylvania communities, farms, and other businesses and what the future will bring. I enjoy giving 20-minute to hour-long talks on the impacts and solutions to the climate crisis to businesses, universities, religious groups and other communities of faith, Rotary/Lions/Optimist Clubs, political groups (Republican, Democrat, Independent, or other), and other community organizations to share the facts, to talk about…
Volunteer public speaker on how Climate Change is already affecting our local Pennsylvania communities, farms, and other businesses and what the future will bring. I enjoy giving 20-minute to hour-long talks on the impacts and solutions to the climate crisis to businesses, universities, religious groups and other communities of faith, Rotary/Lions/Optimist Clubs, political groups (Republican, Democrat, Independent, or other), and other community organizations to share the facts, to talk about the reasons why this issue matters to me, and to encourage urgent, economically-sane action. The presentation is an updated and adapted version of the presentation Al Gore made famous in his 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth" with a focus on Pennsylvania.
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Chair
City of Reading Environmental Advisory Council
- 3 years 7 months
Environment
Reading's EAC works with City Council in an advisory capacity to help Council analyze environmental and sustainability issues. When appropriate, the EAC issues recommendations on courses of action necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the residents of Berks County, PA.
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Advisory Board Member
City of Reading Downtown Revitalization Public Private Partnership
- 2 years 2 months
Economic Empowerment
Attracting new and expanded investment in the Greater Reading area, cultivating an environment where businesses and entrepreneurs can thrive with an enhanced focus on economic development in the downtown commercial.
Publications
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Return to Sender: An Early Loop Customer Weighs In
GreenBiz
An early review of Loop's "milkman" model for consumer products like spaghetti, ice cream, shampoo, cleaning products, and more delivered to your doorstep in reusable/returnable containers.
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Why Trickle-Down Sustainability Doesn't Work
GreenBiz
I’ve spent much of my career as an advocate of trickle-down sustainability. I thought we’d be a lot further along by now. Trickle-down sustainability either does not work, is not working or is not working fast enough
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Sustainability: Stories from Berks County Business Leaders
Berks Nature
Describes what sustainability means to smaller companies that are not (yet) part of the Fortune 100. Based on interviews with more than 50 local Berks County, Pennsylvania, business executives, the report profiles companies for which sustainability means...growing family businesses, saving money, building the company of the future, putting the customer first, eating better food, drinking better beer, and more.
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Sustainable Purchasing 101: Tools for Buying Greener Products
Triple Pundit
Quick overview of some of the sustainable purchasing tools consumers and organizations are using to buy healthier, greener, and more sustainable products and services.
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Transparency and Certification: The Yin and Yang of Sustainability
Triple Pundit
Moves beyond the environmental marketing debate about whether customers want "green seals of approval" or "environmental nutrition labels" to explain the value of both to different types of customers.
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Walking the Tightrope: How to Avoid Green Marketing Nightmares
Triple Pundit
An overview of common green marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.
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The Seven Sins of Greenwashing
TerraChoice
A follow up to the 2007 Sins of Greenwashing study that added an additional, seventh sin -- the Sin of Worshipping False Labels.
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The Six Sins of Greenwashing
TerraChoice
Documented the rise in "greenwashing," misleading environmental claims about products or services designed to increase sales. It identified six "sins" such as the sin of fibbing, the sin of no proof, and the sin of the hidden trade-off to highlight the variety of ways consumers can be misled.
The report received considerable coverage leading to U.S. Congressional hearings, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) committee, interviews on Good Morning America,CBS News, National Public Radio, and…Documented the rise in "greenwashing," misleading environmental claims about products or services designed to increase sales. It identified six "sins" such as the sin of fibbing, the sin of no proof, and the sin of the hidden trade-off to highlight the variety of ways consumers can be misled.
The report received considerable coverage leading to U.S. Congressional hearings, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) committee, interviews on Good Morning America,CBS News, National Public Radio, and in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and other publications around the world.Other authorsSee publication -
The Competitive Advantage: EcoPurchasing
Battelle Press
Wrote a chapter on "Why Purchasing Matters" as part of a larger book designed to provide purchasing professionals and the executives to whom they report with useful information about buying greener, healthier, more sustainable products.
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Environmental Purchasing Policies 101: An Overview of Current Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policies
Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Tracks the growth of North American public procurement policies expressing preferences for greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Includes sample and recommended policy language.
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More than 70 Green Purchaser Articles -- Column in Government Procurement
Penton Media
From 2001 - 2014, Scot wrote for Government Procurement magazine tracking the ways government purchasers are using their purchasing power to buy greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Over 70 articles covering topics such as green purchasing practices; profiles on federal, state, and local green purchasing programs; and environmental standards, labels, and specfications for products including office furniture, cell phones, computers, carpets, cleaning products, office…
From 2001 - 2014, Scot wrote for Government Procurement magazine tracking the ways government purchasers are using their purchasing power to buy greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Over 70 articles covering topics such as green purchasing practices; profiles on federal, state, and local green purchasing programs; and environmental standards, labels, and specfications for products including office furniture, cell phones, computers, carpets, cleaning products, office equipment, paper, automobiles, buildings, roads, and many others.
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State and Local Government Pioneers: Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Practices
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
An overview of the ways U.S. state and local governments are identifying, specifying, and buying greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Part of a series of EPA publications documenting the early days of the environmentally preferable purchasing movement.
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Private Sector Pioneers
Greener Management International
Documented the emerging and growing interest in the purchase of more environmentally preferable goods and services by private sector companies. It was one of many related case studies I wrote as a contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Painting the Town Green: An Overview of Aberdeen Proving Ground's Paint Pilot Project
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Describes efforts by an U.S. Army base in Maryland to buy more environmentally preferable paints as a way of reducing the base's hazardous waste disposal costs. Part of a series of U.S. EPA case studies documenting the early environmentally preferable purchasing movement.
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Leading By Example: Two Federal Government Green Building Case Studies
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Documents early U.S. Federal government green building efforts in the days before the U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED standard. Includes case studies on two EPA construction projects, one in Research Triangle Park, NC, and the other in the Federal Triangle part of Washington, DC. Part of an early series of EPA reports documenting the early green purchasing movement.
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As the son of a 50+ year Clemson University professor, it’s been such a great pleasure to speak and present on sustainability for various schools…
As the son of a 50+ year Clemson University professor, it’s been such a great pleasure to speak and present on sustainability for various schools…
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