Tag: Innovation Award Winner 20099
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Brent Baker
Brent Baker is the CEO and founder of New York City based Tri State Biodiesel (TSB). Under Brent's leadership TSB is the first most well known and biggest biodiesel company in the region and a national leader in urban sustainable biodiesel. Brent is a pioneer of the biodiesel movement and has been a biodiesel educator and since the fuel emerged in the United States about 14 years ago. He is now a nationally known spokesman on biodiesel and related issues.
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Gregg Keesling
Gregg Keesling is familiar with the process of reinvention. He moved to Jamaica as a young man and spent decades in the Caribbean country. He opened a hotel, helped with community projects and enjoyed an ex-patriot lifestyle. But, ultimately, he returned to the United States, and Indianapolis, and founded RecycleForce.
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Mark Hanis
Mark Hanis is the co-founder and President of the Genocide Intervention Network. As a grandchild of four Holocaust survivors, Mark has a deep understanding of individual persecution, and of hope and opportunity. Outraged by the international community's inaction when the Darfur conflict began, Mark began on a journey that still continues today.
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Ned Tozun
Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded D.light Design, an international consumer products company that serves customers without access to reliable electricity. The mission of D.light is to enable households without reliable electricity to attain the same quality of life as those with electricity, beginning with replacing every kerosene lantern with clean, safe, and bright light. D.light has sold tens of thousands of solar lanterns, providing bright light to over 300,000 individuals in India, East Africa and around the world.
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Shannon Boase
Shannon Boase is founder and CEO of Earthcycle Packaging. Earthcycle has used the design brilliance of nature to develop innovative sustainable packaging made from a renewable resource, palm fiber, which composts in less than 90-days, turning into a healthy contribution to the soil. The reuse of palm fiber also eliminates the air pollution that results from the burning of the fibers. Having gained immediate momentum in the US and Canada, Earthcycle’s packaging is now currently available in select Wal-Mart, Publix, Safeway, Loblaw's, Kroger and Wegmans, among other retailers.
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