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.

  • August 27, 2010

    Joshua Farley

    Joshua Farley is a renowned ecological economist working to integrate social, human and natural capital into the way the world views economics. He is a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and a Professor in the Community Development and Applied Economics faculty at the University of Vermont. With economist Herman Daly, Farley co-authored [...]

  • August 27, 2010

    John Todd

    Dr. Todd is one of the pioneers in the emerging field of ecological design and engineering and the founder and senior partner of John Todd Ecological Design. Beyond his numerous awards and citations including the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Award, Dr. Todd has degrees in agriculture, parasitology & tropical medicine from McGill University and a doctorate [...]

  • August 27, 2010

    Paul Hawken

    Paul Hawken authors articles, op-eds, and peer-reviewed papers, and has written seven books, including four national bestsellers: The Next Economy (Ballantine 1983), Growing a Business (Simon and Schuster 1987), The Ecology of Commerce (HarperCollins 1993) and Blessed Unrest (Viking, 2007). The Ecology of Commerce was voted in 1998 as the #1 college text on business [...]

  • June 15, 2010

    Butadiene

    Explosive, carcinogenic liquid hydrocarbon used in the creation of synthetic rubber. produced from petroleum or ethanol.

  • June 15, 2010

    Precycling

    Reducing waste before it is even produced by changing one’s shopping and consumption habits.

  • June 15, 2010

    Nurdles

    Tiny pre-production plastic resin pellets, major component of marine plastic pollution

  • June 2, 2010

    Zone of Saturation

    The layer beneath the soil surface that contains openings that may fill with water.

  • June 2, 2010

    Yard Waste

    The part of solid waste composed of grass clippings, leaves, twigs, branches, and other garden refuse.

  • June 2, 2010

    Wind Turbine

    A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of the wind into mechanical energy that can be used to drive equipment such as pumps.

  • June 2, 2010

    Waste-to-Energy Facility/Municipal-Waste Combustor

    Facility where recovered municipal solid waste is converted into a usable form of energy, usually via combustion.

  • June 2, 2010

    Waste Stream

    The total flow of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that is recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the “residential waste stream” or the “recyclable waste stream.”

  • June 2, 2010

    Waste Reduction

    Using source reduction, recycling, or composting to prevent or reduce waste generation.