Jeffrey Burke. Executive
Director of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable, the
largest organization in the U.S. devoted to efforts to avoid,
eliminate, or reduce pollution. He has given talks to industry,
nonprofits, and governmental agencies throughout the U.S. as well
as in Poland, China, South Africa, and Thailand…
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Jack Giampalmi.
Former Director, Environmental Operations for Dow Chemical. In
that role, he was responsible for the creation and implementation
of a global environmental waste minimization business.
For The Conference Board, he was Director of the Townley Global
Management Center for Environmental Health and Safety…
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Ted Smith. As founder
and Executive Director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition,
he has been a pathbreaker for toxics reduction and pollution prevention
in the electronics industry. No other organization has done more
to call attention to and improve the environmental health and
safety practices of the electronics industry…
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Rob Verchick. The
Gauthier-St. Martin Endowed Chair in Environmental Law at Loyola
University New Orleans School of Law, he is expert on toxics law
as well as on environmental justice (race, poverty, gender, civil
rights and the environment). Topics include environmental justice
and toxics in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina… More
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Michael Castleman.
The author of ten health books, his environmental health writing
has appeared in Sierra, Mother Jones, and Men's Health.
He speaks about the environmental causes of particular cancers,
pollution contamination of breast milk, how endocrine disrupters
threaten reproductive health, and the contaminant risks to children…
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Ed Lowans. A past
president of the Allergy and Environmental Health Association
of Canada, he has published numerous magazine and professional
journal articles and delivered more than forty seminars on indoor
air quality, environmental health, and reducing exposure to toxic
materials in home, education and health care environments…
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Tom Kemper. President
of Dolphin Blue, a supplier of recycled office products, specialty
fiber papers, and related environmentally responsible goods. Founder
of Sustainable Dallas, a nonprofit that showcases environmentally
responsible businesses. Presentations include purchasing to minimize
toxic exposure and prevent pollution… More
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Tom Rymsza. As founder
and chairman of KP Products, he is a pioneer in the development
of environmentally superior paper. His company manufactures paper
from the kenaf plant. No trees, pesticides, or chlorine compounds
are used. He is expert in eco-industrial development, nonwood
fibers, and clean paper manufacturing… More
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Ross Klein. He is widely
viewed as the most knowledgeable person in the world concerning
the environmental impacts of cruise ships. As the author of Cruise
Ship Blues: The Underside of the Cruise Industry, he describes
an invisible underside of garbage and sewage dumping, fuel and
chemical spills, and related harmful practices… More
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Tom Turner. He began
working for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, now known as Earthjustice,
in 1986. Today he is Earthjustice's senior editor, and he has
given hundreds of talks and radio and television interviews. He
speaks on the history of the environmental movement, environmental
conflicts, and environmental law and litigation… More
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Tom Barron. As a consultant
for both government and business, he has worked with or evaluated
nearly 300 facilities. He specializes in pollution prevention
and environmental operations, and he has written a dozen pollution
prevention guides as well as produced a videotape for metal finishers
covering best practices and technical options… More
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Joel Robertson.
He produced the first joint chemical industry and railway safety
conference, and he has spoken to hundreds of audiences on railroad
and hazardous materials safety issues. He has spoken in China
and been an expert interviewee on ABC World News Tonight. He speaks
on the safe rail transport of toxic and hazardous materials…
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