I’ve always been inordinately intrigued by garbage. In college, when I was working for the university recycling center and digging through barrels full of assorted discards, I realized how odd the concept of “waste” was. There isn’t waste in nature – something decays, and becomes food or shelter for something else. Waste is a concept humans invented, and could therefore theoretically uninvent. I’ve spent most of my life trying to figure out ways to help that happen. Currently, at NRDC, I work on waste and recycling issues, and also work with several organizations on comprehensive greening initiatives.
Before coming to NRDC, I worked as Executive Director of the Recycled Paper Coalition, a group of mostly private sector organizations dedicated to the purchase and promotion of recycled paper products. Before that, I worked for other nonprofits promoting social and/or environmental change. I have a degree in English from Stanford University, and a master's in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley.
Posted January 25, 2010 by Darby Hoover in Green Enterprise
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