Advisory Board
John Cusack
Written by John Cusack
John Cusak is President of Gifford Park Associates (GPA), a management consulting firm specializing in helping investors, major companies and academic institutions understand the relationships between organizational sustainability performance and the bottom line financial performance & shareholder/stakeholder value of organizations, and profiting from those relationships.
Clients have included multinational companies...
Rick Gaudette
Written by Lea Cullen - Boyer
Lynda Fassa
Written by Lea Cullen - Boyer
Lynda founded Green Babies, the world's oldest organic cotton baby clothing company, out of her New York City apartment 15 years ago after the birth of her first daughter. Green Babies can be found in hundreds of better specialty stores and is a featured staple in Whole Foods Markets and Wegmans Markets. Hundreds of thousands of babies have been clothed in Green Babies, including many celebrity children. Green Babies has recently opened their first free standing store Green Babies, An...
Nina Orville
Written by Lea Cullen - Boyer
Nina Orville provides sustainability consulting services to non-profits, businesses and local governments. Previously, as Vice President of the New York Community Investment Company, a $40 million community development venture capital firm owned by major banks in New York, she helped finance and provide consulting services to growing businesses in the metro region.
Prior to joining NYCIC, she was a senior manager with an enterprise that supported sustainable development through the...
Jack Algiere
Written by Jack Algiere
Jack was born and raised in southern Rhode Island on a family farm. Since attending the University of Rhode Island’s College of Plant Science, Jack has worked as a greenhouse manager for a family-owned florist, greenhouse and nursery, a private gardener, a park ranger for the Costa Rican National Parks Service, and a sharecropper for an organic vegetable market in California.
Most recently, Jack developed an organic program at White Gate Farm, which produces food for 60 member...
Sharon Rowe
Written by Lea Cullen - Boyer
CEO and Founder of ECOBAGS; the company Eco-Bags Products, Inc and the webstore, www.ecobags.com. Twenty plus years ago Sharon and her husband Blake put two words, Eco and Bag, together (way before anyone was talking about reducing plastic in our environment or creating a more sustainable future). They just thought it made sense to bring our own bags.
Today, Rowe runs the company and is a speaker for what matters
most...
Patti Bressman
Written by Lea Cullen - Boyer
Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation
Ms. Bressman’s initial role at CELF was as Treasurer her responsibilities...
