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Cleaner Production International LLC offers sustainable business training and consulting services around the world, with specialization in practical tools for increasing environmental performance, organization sustainability management, developing countries, and design of government programs to promote sustainable business.   

Burton Hamner is the principal consultant and owner of Cleaner Production International LLC. Click here for his CV.  He has an MBA/MA from University of Washington and has been working full time in sustainable business and Pollution Prevention since 1991, when he joined the Washington Department of Ecology in the first year of its Toxics Reduction Program.  He was responsible for helping over 100 companies and organizations prepare 5-year Pollution Prevention plans meeting state requirements. 

He became a consultant in 1994, and soon was doing most of his work in Southeast Asia for the US Agency for International Development.   In 1995 he moved with his family to Manila, Philippines where he lived until 1998.  As Corporate Programs Manager for the ASEAN Environmental Improvement Project and then the US-Asia Environmental Partnership of USAID, he conducted training and consulting projects around Asia.

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In 1997 Burton became a professor at the Asian Institute of Management, the leading graduate business school in SE Asia, where the students in his course on Cleaner Production conducted a CP assessment of the Institute facilities.  This began a process that led in 2000 to the AIM obtaining ISO 14001 for its Environmental Management System, the only business school in the world to have this certification (as far as we know). In late 1998 Burton moved back to Seattle, Washington and became an independent consultant working for the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Thailand.

Burton moved in 2002 with his family to Lima, Peru, where he became a professor at the Universidad de Pacifico (UP) in the Department of Accounting.  In October 2003 he helped launch the new Centro de Contabilidad y Desempeņo Sostenible (Center for Sustainable Accounting and Development) in the Department.  He taught Cleaner Production courses and developing various CP projects in Peru, and also continued consultancies around the world.  He also prepared a major report on socially responsible investment and its potential for Peru and other developing countries.  He returned to Seattle in 2004.

Countries where Burton Hamner has worked on Cleaner Production projects include (by relative frequency/duration):  United States, Philippines, Peru, Thailand, Indonesia, Chile, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Brunei.    He has been an invited guest speaker in conferences in UK and Sweden. 

His experience includes:

  • Cleaner Production Opportunity Assessments for factories, corporations, hotels, shipyards, utilities, universities, banks, hospitals, and zoos - among others.

  • Government Cleaner Production Program Design at the local, national and regional level.

  • Training for senior executives, department staff, government inspectors, technical assistance providers, librarians, and policy makers, in forums from breakfast briefings to week-long intensive workshops.

  • Internet Strategies and Websites for corporations and government programs.

  • Environmental Management Systems and Sustainability Management Systems.

  • Business Pollution Prevention Plans meeting government requirements.

  • Information Systems about cleaner production, including web sites, libraries, information centers, and training in how to do operate them.

  • Policy Research and Recommendations for multilateral organizations and foreign assistance agencies.

  • Commissioned Papers for clients who need analysis with publication quality.

  • Conference and Event Leadership for major events, intensive workshops and critical briefings.

Selected clients include (by relative frequency): the US Agency for International Development, Asian Development Bank, Pacific Northwest Economic Region, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Asia Foundation,  Nike Inc., Oberoi Hotels, San Miguel Corporation, Tellus Institute, Thailand Pollution Control Department,   UN Industrial Development Organization, World Bank, and others.

Current interests include promotion of Cleaner Production to and through local governments, using professional accountants to promote CP, and development of sustainability management systems using the Balanced Scorecard.

His education includes an honors degree from Harvard College in the History of Science with a minor in Marine Biology, and Master's degrees in Business Administration and in Marine Studies from the University of Washington.  He has over a dozen certificates from professional training courses ranging from Total Quality Management to Hazardous Waste Management.  Before becoming involved in Cleaner Production, he worked as the marketing manager for a scientific sonar systems manufacturer, and an environmental planner for the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Publications by  Burton Hamner include:

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