December 2020

Neil Seldman

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Neil Seldman is a Zero Waste advocate with extensive experience in the field. He co-founded the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and served as their Director of its Waste to Wealth Initiative for 48 years. He also co-founded the National Recycling Coalition, GRRN/Zero Waste USA, Zero Waste International Association and the Save the Albatross Coalition. Seldman … Read more

Julie Sands Tyne

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Julie Sands Tyne has been with the City of San Diego’s Environmental Services Department for about 18 years and is a Supervising Recycling Specialist. Before ESD, she worked in environmental consulting on CEQA projects and Superfund sites, as well as for an English language newspaper in Paris, France. She currently oversees the commercial sector and … Read more

Lin King

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Lin managed the R4 Recycling Program at UC Davis for fifteen years and Cal Zero Waste at UC Berkeley for the past nine years. UC Berkeley has won the Pac-12 Road to Zero Waste Basketball competition four consecutive times and has earned a USGBC TRUE Zero Waste platinum certification for Haas Business School’s Chou Hall. … Read more

David Pinsky, BreakFreeFromPlastic

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Greenpeace is campaigning worldwide to eliminate single-use plastics, hold corporate polluters accountable, spur a reuse revolution, and fight for a just recovery. Learn more about the intersections of corporate, policy, and movement work and how, together, we will #BreakFreeFromPlastic.

Kate O’Neill

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Kate O’Neill is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California at Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. She is known for her work on global environmental politics and governance and the global political economy of waste. Her work has been featured … Read more

Kira Stoll

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Kira Stoll is the Chief Sustainability & Carbon Solutions Officer for the University of California, Berkeley. Her work involves strategic advising with leadership to institutionalize sustainable practices into campus administration and operations; developing cutting-edge carbon reduction, renewable energy, waste and water use reduction, and green building initiatives; and, developing long- and short-range sustainability plans and … Read more