Who we are:
Leadership
The concept of the Cleaner Commerce campaign was envisioned by ADX President and CEO Walt Borland. Walt recognized that ADX offers customers a “win-win” solution - it is better for business and better for the environment. Guided by Walt and the ADX management team, Cleaner Commerce is led by Environmental Specialist Nick Harris with the assistance of his team of environmental interns from UC Berkeley.
The Clean Team
The Clean Team is led by Nick and includes a group of interns who are alumni and current students of environmental programs at the University of California, Berkeley. Passionate about solving the environmental crises faced by our world, the Clean Team supports the practical steps businesses can take today to reduce their environmental impacts.
Message from the Clean Team:
Though our interests and backgrounds vary, the team is committed to finding sustainable and economical solutions to environmental problems. Environmentalism isn’t just about activism; it’s about making the tools necessary to create change accessible to those who can use them. We believe that by creating a dialogue around solutions that make sense to implement, we can empower the business community to embrace a system of incremental change that can have powerful results. In the long run, it is in everyone’s best interest to preserve our main office: the planet.
We created this site as an area for sharing tools, news, and environmentally-conscious business ideas. Our goal is to develop a community among individuals and companies to facilitate fresh solutions to diminish waste. Paper is just the first step, and we’d love to hear from you.
The Clean Team - Nick, Patrick, Lauren, Shannon
Clean Team Profiles:
Nick Harris, Environmental Specialist
Nick Harris is the manager of ADX’s Cleaner Commerce campaign. He developed an appreciation for nature while growing up in the Colorado Rockies, the Maine woods, and near Lake Tahoe. Raised by environmentally conscious parents, Nick became passionate about working towards environmental protection at a young age. With a successful serial-entrepreneur father as a role-model, Nick also became interested in business, and has formed and run several of his own including an IT consulting company. Nick realized that environmental protection is vital to the long-term survival and advancement of the human race, and completed a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences at UC Berkeley. Nick is devoted to the development and implementation of more efficient ways of doing business, and Cleaner Commerce provides a great way to accomplish this.
Shannon Mason
Shannon graduated from UC Berkeley in 2007 with a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies, specializing in aquatic ecology. She has assisted in scientific investigations in Mexico, Mississippi, and Mendocino County, receiving two competitive National Science Foundation “Research Experience(s) for Undergraduates.” In addition, she led a GED tutoring program at San Quentin State Prison for two years, managed a bookstore in Guatemala, and taught Cal’s first foreign Alternative Spring Break. For her, involvement in Cleaner Commerce is an opportunity to practice persuasion and study advocacy: “Marketing is a form of communication.”
Lauren Ryan
Lauren is a soon-to-be 2008 graduate of UC Berkeley, with a B.A. in International Political Economy and a focus on Peace and Conflict Studies. She has studied language and economics in Spain and is in constant pursuit of an ever-elusive fluency in Spanish. As a research apprentice, she analyzed corporate presence in the U.S. legislative process. She believes that environmental sustainability is a means of preemptive peace-making through resource protection. For Lauren, Cleaner Commerce embodies the immense possibilities that exist when a marriage between the resources and logic of successful businesses is entered into with a social mind for change. On a less related note, she believes in the necessity of breathing in Lake Tahoe air at least every six months.
Patrick Samuel
Patrick was born and raised in New Jersey. He is currently a junior at UC Berkeley and plans to graduate in Spring 2009 with a degree in Conservation and Resource Studies and a minor in Celtic Studies. Patrick is the former President of Cal Lightweight Crew, and an avid fisherman. He is interested in environmental policy formation, and how these policies are implemented on the ground. Patrick is helping to research environmental regulations and how they will likely affect businesses. After helping develop Cleaner Commerce, he will continue to explore environmental policy issues in an internship with the National Marine Fisheries Service in Sacramento. Following graduation, Patrick plans to gain experience working and then earn a degree in law.
