Jesse Stallone

Jesse Stallone has spent the majority of his career working in the environmental field dealing with operational activities and driving strategic change initiatives.

He is the VP of Business Development and Sustainability for Electronic Recyclers International. Most recently, Jesse was Director of Sustainability and Strategic Planning at Allied Waste industries, responsible for sustainability and innovation business development initiatives. Prior to this, he served as a Six Sigma Black Belt working on continuous improvement programs dealing with waste reduction for large U.S.-based retailers.

When Jesse isn’t craving good ole’ Southern cooking and reminding everyone to throw their cans in the recycling bin, he runs a sustainability-focused blog and frequently tweets green-related must-reads to Twitter nation.

  • November 9, 2009

    Confessions of a Radical Industrialist: Ray Anderson

    In 1994, Interface founder and Chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can’t be replaced by the earth.

  • July 29, 2009

    Accor North America Joins EPA Intiatitve

    Accor North America has joined the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Partnership for Environmental Priorities (NPEP).

  • July 27, 2009

    Nike’s New Leather Policy: No Sourcing From Amazon Rainforest

    Nike has created a policy to not source leather from cattle raised in the Amazon rainforest (the company says it already does not source from there) and will require that suppliers create leather tracing systems.

  • July 27, 2009

    KB Homes Specifies Recycled Carpet Fiber in Every New Home

    All new homes built by KB Homes will have nylon carpet installed which incorporates some recycled nylon carpet content.

  • July 25, 2009

    Eco-Enforcers

    A group of prominent environmental activists, lawyers and policymakers are reviving plans to create a transnational lawmaking body to regulate and adapt to environmental issues.

  • July 24, 2009

    Employers Walk the ‘Green Walk’ But Don’t Talk the Talk

    Even though 24 percent of employees said their company has made sustainability a top priority in business decisions, only 17 percent said the employers frequently relay the sustainability efforts to their own employees, according to a recent Capstrat-Public Policy Polling survey.

  • July 23, 2009

    Logistics Efficiencies Show JohnsonDiversey that Less is More

    JohnsonDiversey sells products in more than 175 countries but has put in place a series of projects that will cut logistics-related greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter while allowing the company to trim lead times on product deliveries and boost service levels.

  • July 22, 2009

    Baseball Stadiums Go Clean for Electricity

    As part of the sports industry’s growing support to become more sustainable, for one home stand the Arizona Diamondbacks will be running on renewable energy, as will Japanese Pro Baseball’s 2009 All-Star Games.

  • July 21, 2009

    Submarine rescue ship leaves ‘ghost fleet’

    The Ortolan left the James River Reserve Fleet this morning, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation. The submarine rescue ship, part of the aging “ghost fleet” off Fort Eustis in Newport News, is heading to Esco Marine Inc. of Brownsville, Texas. After the two-week journey, the ship will be recycled.

  • July 20, 2009

    AT&T to Switch to 2.6M LEDs in Signage, Save Millions

    By switching the lighting on signs in 6,500 of its stores to an LED lighting system from General Electric, AT&T will save nearly 6 million kilowatt hours of electricity a year.

  • July 18, 2009

    Gates proposal would manipulate seas to fight hurricanes

    Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates has attached his name to five patent proposals for manufacturing hurricane preventing technology.

  • July 17, 2009

    MIT Project Uses Electronic Tags To Study Trash, Recycling

    With a goal of converting more trash into recycling, volunteers for an MIT research project are attaching electronic tags to items put in the trash in New York City and Seattle.