Jenny Abel is a documentary filmmaker, avid composter, Certified Sustainable Building Adviser, and a mother of one. She became obsessed with waste and recycling when she lived in California, particularly after reading the book, ‘Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash’ by Elizabeth Royte. Earning her certificate from the Sustainable Building Adviser Institute in Los Angeles in 2010, she moved to New York City and worked for Jacquie Ottman on several projects. A bona fide waste hater, she advocates sustainability and fights consumerism on a daily basis. READ HER POSTS. 

Lawrence Alvarez is the President of IRBE, and co-founder of the Toronto Tool Library. He was born and raised in Zimbabwe and he has lived in Botswana, Canada, South Africa, and Argentina. His passion lies in travel, exploring human relationships and our shared experience, and finding the connections between us. Lawrence is also a public speaker, and has delivered talks on new technology and education, and on the sharing economy and how it will define our future. For more info visit: www.LawrenceAlvarez.com. READ HIS POST. 

Christina Andersson was born and raised in Sweden, but lives in New York City since 2012. She holds a MS in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Royal Institute of Technology. After a few years in the fashion industry, and later as an advisor in renewable energy and climate change at PwC, she now emphasizes the concept of extending the life of clothes by treating them with care with her own product and brand CARE&S. READ HER POST. 

Adam Baruchowitz is the founder of Wearable Collections, a company focused on diverting clothing, shoes, and textiles from landfills by creating convenient hubs of collection. Wearable Collections partners with residential buildings in New York and New Jersey to provide on-site clothing donation bins and pick-up services. Since its inception, Wearable Collections has collected over 10 million lbs while raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for charitable partners. READ HIS POST.

Drew Beal, CEO at Kill the Cup, never had any intentions of becoming a social entrepreneur. But his pet peeve for disposable coffee cups proved too strong to ignore, and now he spends his time empowering college students to create positive social change. He is the Co-founder and Director of Social Ventures for Sustainability, a San Diego-based nonprofit that partners with campuses and communities to encourage environmentally responsible consumer behavior. READ HIS POST.

Colin Beavan is known as No Impact Man. For one year, he and his family committed to living in the middle of New York City without making any net impact on the environment. This meant no cars, no trash, no carbon emissions, no toxins in the water, no elevators, no subway, no packaging, no plastics, no air conditioning, and no TV. Colin created The No Impact Project which uses entertainment, education and group action to engage new people in the quest for ways of living that connect individual happiness with service to community and habitat. READ HIS POST.

Odile is responsible for promoting carpooling.com around the world. She has been living car-free with her husband and 3 children in France, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the U.S. and is an active promoter of sustainable transportation. She is passionate about the sharing economy and the use of technology as a way towards a more human, sustainable future. Odile loves to get to know her local community and tries to create positive change in every place she lives.  Carpooling.com is a sponsor of WeHateToWaste.com   READ HER POST. 

 Suzy Bowler has been a somewhat itinerant chef for over 30 years. After 14 years of running a hotel and two restaurants in Cornwall, in partnership with her sister, she set off on her travels. Suzy has cooked in a ski resort in the French Alps, on a passage making yacht around Madeira and the Canary Islands, on a catamaran in the Caribbean and in New Zealand. She then settled in the Caribbean and worked as a chef in the British Virgin Islands for many years. All this traveling taught her not only a great deal about different foods of the world but also how to make the best of what you have. Suzy has now returned to the UK, where she lives in Cornwall and spends her time cooking, eating, blogging and writing (or sitting on the couch as her partner calls it!). READ HER POST.

 Jen Boynton is Head of Content at Triplepundit.com, a leading news publication for the conversation on sustainability in business. To read her news articles, visit: TriplePundit: Jennifer Boynton. She can be reached on Twitter @jenboynton. READ HER POST.

Wendy Brawer is the Founding Director of Green Map System. She’s an eco-designer who has charted the ways to minimize waste since the early 90’s when her Deposit Banks for Times Square (which invited people to take and redeem bottles and cans deposited there) and Stamp Out Junk Mail Campaign debuted – learn more of her experiences at EcoCultural.info. Pictured with Wendy is Aaron Reiss, Green Map System’s cartographer. READ THEIR POST. 

Sue Nelko Carr is a blogger, essayist, and aspiring novelist trying to live a less wasteful life in Pittsburgh, PA. READ HER POST.

Michelle works as a paralegal in an NYC law firm, and by night she freelances as a member of the WeHatetoWaste web team.  She graduated from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with a concentration in Environmental Studies. READ HER POST.

Martin Charter is a professor and director of The Centre for Sustainable Design at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey, UK.  He is the co-founder, Farnham Repair Café.  He is a veteran of over 25 years working on sustainability, business, innovation and design.  He’s always thinking about creative solutions to problems and shifting mindsets from ‘trash to treasure’.  READ HIS POST.

Tessa is the Co-Founder of OLIO, a free app which harnesses the power of mobile technology and the sharing economy to provide a revolutionary new solution to the problem of food waste. Prior to founding OLIO, Tessa spent over 10 years as a digital Managing Director in media, financial services and at Dyson. Tessa has an MBA from Stanford and started her career as a strategy consultant. READ HER POST.

Lorne is the official WeHatetoWaste cartoonist.  Appropriately, he produces these illustrations entirely in digital form on his iPad, saving numerous twigs.  He is also a strategic consultant and owner of Unicycle Creative, marketing sustainability-focused companies, and a blogger for GreenPositive.org, using positive green thinking to drive change.

Claire’s passion for sustainable waste management began when she was a student dining at Bon Appétit’s café at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR. Her work as a Fellow for the foundation led to the creation of the Waste Specialist position. Over the past year Claire has doubled the number of Bon Appétit’s food-recovery programs, developed implementation guides for launching reusable to-go container programs, supported the development of a new kitchen-waste-tracking system, and helped launch the Imperfectly Delicious program, which has rescued more than 10,000 pounds of produce from going to waste on farms in the first few months of its limited pilot operations. READ HER POST.

Alex Dagi is a junior at Harvard College studying Science, Technology and Society in the History of Science department. He joined his friends at Tradr in Summer 2015 and can be found biking around campus when not working down at the Harvard i-Lab. READ HIS POST.

Esther Deeks started the UK’s first Community Fridge in the Spring of 2016 with Edventure: Frome and the Frome Town Council. Throughout this project she has been filming with Jamie Oliver and Jimmy for part of a series on food waste to launch next year. She is passionate about food from field to fork and loves exploring new projects that are opposing the ‘norms’ from organic market gardens to restaurants. She is currently volunteering at The Calais Woodyard, processing, chopping and distributing wood in the Calais Refugee Camp. In the lead up to the proposed eviction of the 10,000 refugees there she is hoping to collaborate on a project to show that migration is an amazing thing and is welcomed by many. READ HER POST.

Jocelyn Deprez, a retired French and English teacher, fights waste by transforming cooked food quickly and easily into appetizing new presentations. Her new book, The Refrigerator Files: A Guide to Creative Makeovers for your Leftovers (iUniverse, 2011) presents over 30 easy-to-follow procedures learned over many years lived in Europe and America. An inveterate “scrapper”, she loves to make delicious creations from those scraps. READ HER POSTS.

Alex Eaves is a Reuse Pro who lives and breathes a reuse life. He’s also now a filmmaker, having launched the documentary, “REUSE! Because You Can’t Recycle The Planet in 2016.” Eaves is also the owner of the Green America certified reuse apparel brand, STAY VOCAL, an apparel line that is made from both brand new T-Shirts that were going to be destroyed and garments found at thrift stores and through donations. The business is the result of almost a decade of traveling the world, selling merchandise for rock bands. His website is alexeaves.com. READ HIS POST.

Mark Eisen is the former director of environmental marketing at The Home Depot and an associate of  J. Ottman Consulting.  He loves spending time trolling the internet, for the best ways to save money and save the planet. READ HIS POST.

MaryEllen Etienne is the CEO of Reuse Institute and the Executive Producer of ReuseConex. MaryEllen has been working in the “wonderful world of reuse” for nearly two decades working to increase awareness of reuse and strengthen the reuse industry. MaryEllen received her degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is currently on the board of directors of Reuse Institute, SCRAP USA and Association of Ohio Recyclers. She is also on the certification boards of National Recycling Coalition and US Zero Waste Business Council and is an organizer of Green Drinks Dayton. READ HER POST.

Miranda is a graduate of the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management master’s program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She aspires to work within the Corporate Social Responsibility sector. She earned her Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology and Environmental Studies at Santa Clara University and is active in both her Net Impact and Alpha Phi Fraternity. When she is not busy finding new ways to reduce her waste, she enjoys running, swimming, hiking, snowboarding, yoga, and baking treats for picnics in the park. READ HER POSTS.

For over a decade, Dana Frasz has worked to inspire, support, and create social change through her work on college campuses, with businesses, and at Ashoka. She is the Founder and Director of Food Shift, an Earth Island Institute-sponsored project based in Oakland, CA dedicated to developing long-term sustainable solutions that reduce food waste, feed the hungry and provide jobs. READ HER POST.

Jackie Freeman has been cooking professionally in catering companies, private kitchens and restaurants for more than 15 years. She transitioned from the kitchen to the country where she raised livestock and vegetables, and made artisan cheese on farms in Washington State. Jackie now combines her culinary and farming skills working as a recipe developer, food stylist and cooking instructor. She is currently putting her farming and culinary knowledge together with a flair for using leftovers as a spokesperson for PCC Natural Markets, a Seattle-based natural food retail co-operative, and King County’s Food: Too Good to Waste campaign. READ HER POST.

Having grown up a Jersey Girl, Katherine loves both the nature of the shore and the city’s skyline. She is a graduate of Penn State University with a Bachelor of Science in Geography and Environmental Inquiry and just completed her Master’s at New York University. Working in environmental conservation research, Katherine also loves finding creative ways to waste less and help others live a greener life in the concrete jungle. READ HER POSTS.

Sandra Goldmark is the founder of Pop Up Repair, a social enterprise in NYC that reinvents repair to create local jobs, reduce waste, and makes it easy for people to care for what they have.  A designer, teacher, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on innovative and sustainable engagement with material culture, she is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice and the Director of Sustainability and Environment at Barnard College, and has designed sets and costumes for theatres around the country.  READ HER POST

Kate is a recent graduate of Dickinson College with a BA in English. Kate helps lead environmental education programs for the Hackensack Riverkeepers. She hopes to inspire others to be a little kinder to the planet by promoting a waste free lifestyle. READ HER POST

Bill Gordon has a Ph.D in Zoology focused on Cellular and Molecular Biology from UC Berkeley and an MBA in Finance from Wharton. Bill is an angel investor and serial entrepreneur who currently teaches entrepreneurship in the Design for Social Innovation graduate program at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Bill was awarded a Gates Foundation Grand Challenge Exploration Grant in October 2009 for work on a novel approach to making a vaccine against malaria at biotech startup Tetragenetics. He regularly advises other early stage companies. He lives in Westport, CT. READ HIS POST.

Michael Graham is a professional puppeteer and director of the Spring Valley Puppet Theater. He grew up with the habit of recycling thanks to his mother Elizabeth and her volunteer work, which helped to establish one of the first town recycling centers in Connecticut. He has had a life long love of thrift shops, Goodwills, tag sales, and the reuse and savings they represent. READ HIS POSTS.

Rob Greenfield is an adventurer, activist, and dude making a difference.  His purpose is to inspire health, happiness, and freedom on earth and he’s dedicated his life to this mission.  He has cycled across the USA twice on a bamboo bicycle, went a year without showering, and has dove into over 1,000 dumpsters across America, all to inspire positive social change.  When not out adventuring he lives in a 50 square foot tiny home in San Diego.  His attention grabbing tactics are often a bit extreme and crazy but the messages behind them teach simple lessons that can be adapted into any life to live with more happiness, health, and freedom. READ HIS POST

Dana Gunders is a Staff Scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). She works on market and policy oriented initiatives to promote sustainability throughout food systems and supply chains. She leads NRDC’s work on reducing food waste and is the author of a widely distributed report “Wasted: How America is Losing Up to 40% of Its Food from Farm to Fork to Landfill”. Her work on food waste has been featured by CNN, CNBC, The New York Times, NPR, and many other outlets. In addition to working on reducing the amount of wasted food, Dana works on improving food sourcing of individual companies and as part of the Steering Committee for the Stewardship Index for Specialty Crops and a participant in the Sustainability Consortium. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Earth Systems from Stanford University. READ HER POST

Beth is a graduate of Environmental Politics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about exploring different ways to engage people in environmental issues. She has worked at J. Ottman Consulting, helping to grow WeHateToWaste.com and is now based in Australia working on a project called Make Meaning, that educates young people on social entrepreneurship. READ HER POST

Erin Horleman is a recent graduate of Bucknell University with a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Anthropology. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management at The New School in NYC. Growing up in a small town at the Jersey Shore, she values the importance of doing the ‘little things’ to make strides toward a waste free lifestyle, and is inspired by the opportunity that the ‘Big City’ has to offer. READ HER POST

Not being exactly a tree-huggin’ Birkenstock green, Park and his sustainable marketing firm aim squarely at the middle of the consumer bell curve with their sustainable storytelling to nudge more people toward sustainable pursuits. (The views expressed on this and his blog, are his alone, although he’s not-so-subtly trying to make them yours, too.)  His firm’s initiative, WaterUseitWisely.com is a sponsor of WeHateToWaste.com. READ HIS POST

Adam Johnson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Western Metropolitan Regional Council (WMRC) in Perth, Western Australia. They recover recyclables from mixed municipal waste, and converts the remainder in biogas to generate electricity and compost. READ HIS POST.

After earning her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from Harvard University, Meredith worked as an elementary school teacher in rural Arkansas through Teach for America before joining an environmental remediation company in Connecticut as a project engineer. She currently lives in Brooklyn and works at the WeWork co-working space at Fulton Station as an innovations analyst and strategist for dMASS Inc., a company that tracks innovations in science, technology and business that deliver more value using fewer resources, and connects innovators and seekers of innovation with strategic opportunities.  During the summer of 2013, she worked as an intern with the New York City Department of Sanitation’s Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling, where she helped develop the City’s residential organics collection program. READ HER POST 

Steven Lake’s directorial debut Drying For Freedom had success in the international film festival circuit, and picked up several accolades including the UK’s 2012 Climate Week Award for Best Artistic Response. In early 2013 the documentary went into distribution, securing broadcast deals within the US, Asia and Europe. Steven’s work to date has revolved around the aim of creating lasting social change through documentary; he is a converted environmentalist and advocate for feminism and women’s rights. READ HIS POST. 

Jussara Lee is the founder and designer of Jussara Lee, a small-scale luxury design company based in New York City. A native Brazilian of Korean heritage, she moved to the United States in 1987 to study at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Upon graduation in 1991, she unveiled a collection under her signature name that was embraced by prominent retailers such as Barneys and Bergdorf Goodman. Since then, she has spent the last 15 years focusing on hand-tailored, custom-made clothes as a means to shift her business practices to a more environmentally conscious operation. Biodegradable fabrics, natural dyes, local labor, alteration and mending services, small production batches, and implementations of systems that engage the community are all part of her modus operandi. READ HER POST.

Jennifer escaped from the world of Wall St by digging a hole under her desk during her very short water breaks into the A/C vents. After miles of dark tunnels and dust bunnies, and with Bailey her Pomeranian as her guide, she emerged in Brooklyn and began on her quest to help people clear their Closets of stuff! Armed with a BA from UC Berkeley and MBA from Columbia, she created ClosetDash, the social way to sell, swap or donate your stuff! She also throws killer swap parties. She calls both CA and NY her home and enjoys cooking large Korean meals for her friends. READ HER POST.

Tamara lives in Lodi, California and works at a local community college as a part-time English teacher. She has a son, daughter and two grandsons. She thoroughly enjoys farming and living on a 10-acre wine grape vineyard. READ HER POST.

Emma Marsh joined WRAP in 2005 and heads up Love Food Hate Waste (LFHW), a UK food waste prevention initiative which aims to raise awareness of the issue of food waste and offers simple everyday tips and support to help consumers save money and waste less. WRAP combines LFHW (changing consumer behaviour) and work to change the retail environment ensuring retailers/brands change/improve products and practices to help consumers waste less. Previous to this Emma managed WRAP’s Local Communications Programme working with Local Authorities on waste and recycling. Emma regularly appears as a food waste expert as well as appearing regularly on TV and radio and has been in the top 10 ‘Resource Hot 100’ for the past 2 years. READ HER POST.

Nancy Matson maintains an environmental blog, “Stuff You Don’t Want,” where she advises people how to keep unwanted goods out of the landfill, item by item. She is a regular contributor to Krrb, a classified ads site, on the topic of used goods, and her writing on other subjects has appeared on WeLikeLA, Narratively, and Bustle. She lives in Los Angeles. READ HER POST

Colleen McCarthy is a student at Fordham University where she is majoring in Environmental Studies and Communications. Having grown up by a lake and state park in Connecticut, her passion for the environment started at a young age. Colleen is primarily interested in how she can influence others to adopt more sustainable consumption habits through strategic communication. She works to create greener campus at Fordham with Student Government’s Sustainability Committee. READ HER POST

Adrian is a 26-year-old corporate responsibility professional and independent web marketing consultant for sustainability-focused clients (including WeHateToWaste!). Adrian keeps her carbon footprint low in the West Village of New York City, where she spends her time writing, speaking in the third person, and generally enjoying life in the #1 ice cream neighborhood in NYC–which probably makes it the best ice cream neighborhood in the country, and therefore the planet, and arguably the universe. You can learn more about Adrian at her blog. READ HER POST

Hunter Moyes is a Vancouver, Canada – based chef, writer and founder of the Tiffin Project, a unique social enterprise with the goal of promoting reusable to-go food containers.  READ HIS POST

Ilene uses her professional marketing skills to help inspire change about a societal issue that’s near to her heart – creating less trash that ends up in landfills or oceans.  Ilene hopes everyone will reuse/recycle more than they discard, and when buying, consider the amount/type of product packaging plus where items will end up (in a landfill? recycled? a treasured keepsake? long usage life?). READ HER POST.

Marja is a 35-year-old Finnish citizen who lives in Madrid, Spain, with her husband and 4 happy adopted cats. She loves cooking, reading, traveling, and horseback riding. Her passion for wanderlust provoked her to live and work in several European countries including France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Ireland and Spain. She has a love for animals and a passion for environmental issues.

She graduated with a Masters degree from the Helsinki School of Economics. She is currently serving as a Market Insight Analyst at Ingersoll Rand, but will soon be starting a new role as an Account Manager for the Southern European region of the Thermo King Aftermarket Service Programs. READ HER POST. 

Alexandra O’Hagan is a student at Columbia University studying Sustainable Development. She is a Waste Watcher at heart and is always looking for ways reduce her personal impact on the environment…and if it saves her money at the same time, then all the better! READ HER POST.

A Waste Watcher since age four when she was nicknamed “Junkie Jacquie” for dragging home treasures from the neighbor’s trash, Ottman has spent 25 years showing Fortune 500 companies and the U.S. government how to develop and market products that can meet consumer needs sustainably. She is the visionary behind WeHateToWaste.com  Read her full bio here. READ HER POSTS.

Melissa O’Young has worked in the waste department for an eco-city, won awards for a start-up idea tackling food waste, and advised the UK Government on collaborative consumption. Melissa is passionate about getting consumers to adopt more sustainable behaviors and often writes about her own journey towards  sustainable lifestyle. Melissa also recently launched Let’s Collaborate NYC as a forum to discuss and inspire collaborative consumption in New York City. Follow her on Twitter at @Melalicious. READ HER POST.

Ruth Penniston is studying sustainable fashion through the M.S. program in Sustainability Management at Columbia University. She is specifically interested in translating the metrics of sustainability such as carbon emissions, water and land use, and waste so that designers and consumers can make more informed textile choices. Previously, Ruth did research on past climates at the University of Arizona and studied tree regrowth patterns in Norway as a Fulbright Scholar. READ HER POST.

Kendra Pierre-Louis works for a sustainability consulting firm that specializes in energy+sustainability, author of the book Green Washed: Why We Can’t Buy Our Way to a Green Planet (Ig Publishing, 2012), and a volunteer with the White Roof Project. She credits her conservation and environmentalism, at least in part, to the cicadas she heard outside her bedroom window as a child growing up in Queens. (Kendra believes that everyone should be fortunate enough to be both awed and terrified by nature on a semi-regular basis.) Kendra received her B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and her M. A. in Sustainable Development from the SIT Graduate Institute. She has worked for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Convention on Biological Diversity and the New York Botanical Gardens. READ HER POST.

Rebecca Prince-Ruiz is a Waste Educator with Perth’s Western Metropolitan Regional Council and founder of Plastic-free July. The 2015 Waste Champion Winner, Waste Authority of WA Infinity Awards, Rebecca is passionate about how we can all be part of the solution to the plastic pollution problem. In February 2016 Rebecca was awarded a Churchill Fellowship toinvestigate innovative programs of raising awareness, management and solutions to the plastic pollution problem. READ HER POST. 

Dan earned his International Business degree from University of Connecticut. After working with HIV activist organizations and micro-finance institutes finding sustainable ways to break the cycle of poverty, his passion to create value in items typically discarded led from the FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties to Move For Hunger where he has been able to find innovative ways to divert food away from the landfill and to hungry stomachs. Dan enjoys the music scene of Asbury Park, turning any leftovers into a burrito, and finding funky locations to do head stands. READ HIS POST. 

Cheryl Rigdon is a full time speech and language pathologist at a preschool and a full time entrepreneur.  You may remember her from ABC’s Shark Tank with her invention of the Spatty and Spatty Daddy.  Another claim to her fame is being named Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women. READ HER POST.

Frugal by nature, and an environmentalist since the ’60s, Fredrica Rudell is Professor Emerita of Marketing at Iona College in New Rochelle, NY, where she taught basic Marketing, Consumer Behavior and Green Marketing courses, and was very involved with sustainability activities. She continues to support green initiatives on and off campus. READ HER POSTS.

Katie is currently in the Peace Corps in Panama doing environmental education and conservation work. She is a graduate of Hobart and William Smith Colleges with a major in Environmental Studies and a double minor in Geoscience and Latin American Studies.   Prior to leaving for Panama she worked in NYC in an organic restaurant, and loves to run, hike, snowboard, play tennis and cook up a storm. READ HER POST.

Tommy is an expert on environmental science and sustainable urban design, as well as a relentless optimist! He is a recent NYU graduate and currently works at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU, where he works with cities to improve health, safety, environmental quality, mobility, and inclusiveness. He loves to travel, explore cities on his bike, and simply observe, preserve, and appreciate the world around us! READ HIS POST.

Isabella Sokoler believes in sharing as a means of reducing the production of waste. She is currently studying for a masters degree in Spatial Designs and Society at Roskilde University in Denmark. As a former intern at Naboskab, she used her knowledge of spatial design, technology and sustainability to learn about and create strategies that make society more sustainable. READ HER POST

Grace Stainback hails from sunny South Florida, where frustration with unchecked coastal development impacts- and a call to the wild- prompted her to flee to the opposite coast and begin a career in environmental planning and mountain living. She now resides in Portland, Oregon, dividing her time between completing a Master of Urban & Regional Planning degree at Portland State University, and brainstorming creative approaches to spreading the “reduce, reuse, recycle” gospel as the Waste Minimization Outreach Coordinator at the Port of Portland. In a previous life she was a freelance journalist and edited a sustainable building trade magazine. READ HER POST.

I’ve been blessed to have experienced many careers, mostly in and around the world of marketing. The “big roles” would include Chief Marketing Officer at Church’s Chicken and Papa Murphy’s Pizza, VP of Marketing and Operations Internationally at Dairy Queen and a VP Marketing role at Coke; thanks to so many colleagues who taught me so much along the way. I’m now juggling two rewarding roles:  marketing as a small agency serving restaurant and retail clients, and teaching future awesome marketers at the University of British Columbia and Western Washington University. READ HER POST.

Tom Szaky, the Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, Inc., was born in Communist Hungary before emigrating as a child to Holland and eventually Toronto, Canada. Ever since he was a young boy, he was an entrepreneur and environmentalist at heart. Capitalism, free markets and the waste created as a result always fascinated him. Today, his love for the planet extends far beyond his innovative ventures in collecting and repurposing hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste. He is a patron of the arts, he enjoys daily runs, biking and kayaking along the river near his home, and he takes great pleasure in traveling to remote and beautiful parts of the world. READ HIS POST.

Harriet Taub is the Executive Director of Materials for the Arts, the oldest creative reuse center in NYC. An NYU graduate, she spent her early career in the film business and later started a children’s clothing company, Bumblewear. She is a founding member of the Reuse Alliance and in 2014, she spoke on Creative Reuse for TEDx Gramercy. READ HER POST.

Becca Tucker is a former Manhattanite who now lives upstate in Warwick on a 50-acre farm, with goats, chickens, pigs, and daughter and husband. She edits Dirt magazine and writes about the rural life. She once spent three days living entirely off of food that she dumpster dove while writing a story about freegans. Nowadays, she diverts waste from the landfill by collecting food scraps from her office, and from a local restaurant, to feed to her chickens. READ HER POST.

Keila is an expert in the area of social and psychological aspects of dress, appearance, and the body, having an extensive academic background in the area. Additionally, she is a trained image consultant with a commitment to develop one’s authentic style while educating clients on how to be more ethical and mindful consumers. For more information, visit her website at www.keilatyner.com and follow her on Twitter @KeilaTyner. READ HER POST.

Rogier is a consultant in raising property values with clean energy retrofits and a marketer of green energy solutions. He is also a writer and translator. Originally from Rotterdam, Holland, he now lives in the Bronx, New York.  Rogier is professionally involved in energy consulting, IT/payment systems/security, the economics of sustainability, and green energy promotion. READ HIS POST.

Mike is the founder of AlterAction Inc., a marketing consulting firm specializing in strategies for large-scale human behavior change. The company has helped a wide range of corporate, nonprofit, and government clients understand and re-shape the behavior of customers, employees, and communities. Mike is a frequent speaker on behavioral marketing and, specifically, on promoting sustainability. His experience with social marketing dates to the late 1980s, when he ran several successful public service advertising campaigns at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Mike graduated from the University of Virginia and holds a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School. READ HIS POST.

Mary Wallace is the inspiration behind PeopleTowels.  Wallace, a former science and environmental education teacher has been “living green” for years and has a deep concern for the environment and the future of the planet.  She believes that everyone through small personal acts can have a tremendous impact.  Prior to founding PeopleTowels, Wallace held senior management positions with both Fortune 500 and start-up companies. READ HER POST.

Chana Widawski, a social worker, writer and green-living coach is a four season bicyclist who dreams of a world without disposable plastic water bottles. A believer in story-sharing as a vehicle for healing ourselves and our increasingly toxic world, Chana has organized several story-sharing projects in her Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and recently “bio-biked” to Washington DC for the 2017 Climate March. She shared her Dad’s story of surviving the Holocaust, what she believes is the source of her “green-ness”, all along her way.

Based in New York City, Chana is the Families for Safe Streets Organizer for Transportation Alternatives. She spent 13 months in India, Myanmar and the Middle East refusing bottled water, purifying her own and never getting sick.  She received her BA in Communications from SUNY Albany and her MSW with a focus in Community Organizing, Planning and Development from Hunter College where she serves as Adjunct Faculty. READ HER POST.

Angela is originally from Venezuela, where she graduated from University with Cum Laude honors in Human Resources Management. As a child she lived in the US for three years and then went back to live in Venezuela. After she graduated from college, she went to live in Spain, where she achieved an MBA degree and a Masters degree in Human Resources Management. She moved to the UK in 2008, with her husband Dave (whom she met in Spain) and she is now a British citizen. She has a three year old daughter, Georgia. She and her husband successfully run their own business, developing and renovating properties. READ HER POST.

In addition to founding Greener Grads, Seth Yon sits on the board for the Jason Kinzler Family First Foundation and actively manages fundraising, event planning and coordinating the needs of families that come to the foundation for support. Yon is also an avid outdoorsman and enjoys competitive skiing, camping, hiking, and biking. READ HIS POST.

Melissa is a graduate of Cornell University with a BS in Natural Resources. She concentrated in Resource Planning and Management and is the recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award. She aspires to work within the sustainable resources sector. She exchanges clothing with friends, keeps a demitarian diet, and strives to reduce daily wastefulness.  She calls Long Island and New York City home. READ HER POST.

Erin Zaikis is the founder of Sundara, a nonprofit that runs sustainable soap recycling programs in developing countries. READ HER POST.