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Design of a Cleaner Production Assessment Program for
Honduras. Served as
senior technical advisor to help USAID Honduras implement 200 clean
production assessments in Honduras organizations. Client: US Agency for
International Development / IRG Ltd. December 2004 – April 2005.
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Evaluation of Waste Prevention
Measurement in Seattle Companies. Conduct a study
of leading Seattle organizations to learn how they approach waste
prevention; document their use of data and analysis; recommend new tools for
the City of Seattle to estimate and encourage waste prevention in sectors.
Client: Seattle Public Utilities. October 2004 – April 2005.
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Criteria used by Socially Responsible Investment
Funds in the Private
Sector:
Classification and Use in Peru.
Received a competitive grant award to study the criteria used by socially
responsible investment funds and indexes and evaluate potential applications
in Peru. Developed a new model for Corporate Social Responsibility using
SRI criteria in a quality management framework. Made recommendations for
various stakeholder groups. Client: Consortio de Investigacion Economica y
Social, Lima. Oct 2003 – July 2004.
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Development of a Strategic Plan for Sustainable
Development of the Paracas Region for Projecto CAMISEA.
Projecto Camisea is Peru´s biggest infrastructure project. It will bring
natural gas from the Amazon Basin to Lima and the coast and include a major
gas liquification plan near the Paracas National Reserve. I designed the
model for the strategic plan and serve as an international advisor on
planning and environmental management. Client: US Agency for International
Development. Jan – April 2004.
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Strategy and Capacity Development in Cleaner Production
for the Thailand Ministry of Science and Technology.
Serve as Cleaner Production Expert for this project of the Asian Development
Bank. Provided extensive training, developed a CD-ROM database of key CP
publications, produced a Handbook on CP for the Ministry, provided
recommendations for restructuring the national Science and Technology
Development Fund, and organized and chaired the National Seminar on
Financing Cleaner Production in partnership with the United Nations
Environment Programme. Client: Asian Development Bank. October 2001 –
January 2003.c
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Program Review and Strategy Development for National
Cleaner Production Program of Chile. Advised the
INTEC organization (www.intec.cl)
with detailed pro forma work plans for CP projects with local governments,
professional associations, new investment support and promotion of
mass-market CP technologies. Client: INTEC Chile. March 2002.
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Cleaner Production Strategy for the Vietnam Ministry of
Industry. Researched Vietnam’s industrial,
economic and environmental history, situation and trends. Traveled to Hanoi
and Ho Chi Minh City and met with Ministry of Industry, organizations and
factory directors, toured factories and laboratories. Developed specific
strategies for the Assistant Director General, Department of Technology and
Product Quality, Vietnam Ministry of Industry, for promoting Cleaner
Production in the textile, chemical, food processing and pulp and paper
state-owned companies. Client: US-Asia Environmental Partnership.
September 2001.
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Industry Sector Analysis for Cleaner Production Program
Strategy. Reviewed CP information available for
twenty industries. Produced annotated guides to CP information for each
industry, including overviews of issues and CP solutions. Grouped
industries by similarity of CP solutions to identify major groups of
industries around which CP programs can organize their activities.
Determined crucial skills needed by CP program staff to understand and
respond to challenges in the major groups. Client: USAID Peru.
October-December 2000.
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Review and Analysis of the US Environmental Industry
Trade Media. Identified all the commercial
periodicals serving the industry, built a database of information about each
one, and evaluated the periodicals for strategic recommendations to the US
AID Ecolinks project. Developed a strategy for promoting Pollution
Prevention technologies separately from traditional environmental
technologies. Client: USAID. September 2000 – December 2000.
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Total Cost Assessment Regulatory Analysis.
Analyzed and recommended options for incorporating Total Cost
of Waste analysis into industry environmental management regulations being
established by the Government of Peru. Client: USAID Peru. August 2000 –
December 2000.
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Environmental Management System Reporting and Planning.
Advised a mid-size manufacturing company how to develop an EMS that meets
state requirements; prepared all documentation and provided training of
senior managers on EMS design and implementation. Client: Northwest
Composites, Inc. August 2000.
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Cleaner Production Financing Analysis.
Assessed programs world wide that provide financing for
cleaner production investments by companies. Developed case studies of
potential applications of financing programs in Asian developing countries.
Client: Asian Development Bank. November 1999 – December 2000.
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Review of USAID’s Urban and
Environmental Management Program for Peru. As
part of a team reviewing all of USAID’s environmental programs in Peru,
spent a month in Peru and evaluated the urban and industrial environmental
management projects sponsored by USAID. Conducted institutional and
technical analyses, advised project managers on project design and
implementation, suggested new opportunities, wrote official evaluation
report. April 2000
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International Advisor, "Resource
Recovery Project for the Philippines". Help Clean
Washington Center and Pacific Northwest Economic Region design and implement
project to transfer recycling technology to the Philippines, organize
cleaner production extension services for cities and industries. Funding
from USAID. October 1998 - March 2001.
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Analysis of Strategies for Greening the Supply Chain.
Researched and wrote report on efforts to green
the supply chain in multinational companies and others. Reviewed and
presented information on distribution of Small and Medium Enterprises in
Asia and how they can be reached through supply chain strategies. Reviewed
and presented summaries of corporate supply chain strategies. Described
strategies that SMEs can use to become more competitive as suppliers to
multinationals by using pollution prevention methods. Organization for
Economic Development and Cooperation, Paris, October 1998
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Design of an Environmental
Technology Assessment System for the Philippines.
Served as Technology Systems Analyst on United Nations
Industrial Development Organization project to develop a system to help
small and medium business in the Philippines to evaluate technology options
for environmental improvement. October 1997 - March 1998.
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Review of Cleaner Production Implementation in the
Philippines. Conducted a study for the World
Bank’s Metropolitan Environmental Improvement Project on the implementation
of cleaner production in the Philippines. Identified statistical indicators
of cleaner production success and recommended additional criteria for
evaluating program implementation. November 1997.
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Design of Cleaner Production Technical Assistance
Strategy for the Philippines. Designed a US $10
million, four-year project to promote implementation of cleaner production
and Integrated Environmental Management in the coastal industrial areas of
the Philippines. Project implemented as the "Industrial Initiative for a
Sustainable Environment." Client: U.S. Agency for International
Development, Philippines Mission. March – August 1997.
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University Clean Technology
Program. Consulted on program development and
resources. Conducted factory visits, industry and government training
workshops, lectures. Wrote conference papers. Client: Institute for
Environmental Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
November 1994 – September 1996.
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Design of a Cleaner Production Technical Assistance
Strategy for Indonesia. Conducted for the U.S.
Agency for International Development, Indonesia Mission. Project
implemented as the "Indonesia Cleaner Industrial Production Project."
November-December 1993.
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Pollution Prevention Plan for US Navy, Whidbey Naval Air
Station. Development of a technical and
management plan for pollution prevention. Client: US Navy. 1994.
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Pollution Prevention Plan for a Printing Company.
Development of a chemical use and waste reduction plan meeting state
requirements. Client: Dataprint, Inc., Seattle. September 1994.
