Global Green USA

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Global Green USA

"Founded in 1993 by activist and philanthropist Diane Meyer Simon, Global Green is the American Arm of Green Cross International (GCI), which was created by President Mikhail S. Gorbachev to foster a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future by reconnecting humanity with the environment.

"Global Green USA is the only national environmental non-profit headquartered in Southern California with offices in New Orleans, Washington DC, and New York, and is one of 31 national GCI affiliates throughout the world."

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Involvement with the Toxic Sludge Industry

Global Green USA's "Coalition for Resource Recovery" is a front group for the Toxic sludge industry. It calls itself "a working group of companies, under the direction of Global Green USA, dedicated to combating climate change and generating business value by transforming waste into assets." Its November 14th 2011 "Fall Resource Recovery Conference: Commercial Food Waste Session" features a speaker's list full of sludge-pushers like Sally Brown and sludge industry companies like Eisenmann AG, and participants include sludge businesses like Gaia Strategies (principal Kendall Christiansen) and sludge proponent groups like the US Composting Council.

The CORR's members include :

• Action Carting
• BASF
• Bemis Company
• Chemol Company
• Clean River Systems
• DBB Partners
• Design & Source
• Dow Corning
• Duro Bag
• First Fiber Corporation
• Green Bay Packaging
• HAVI Global Solutions
• IESI
• Imersys
• Interstate Container
• LBP Manufacturing
• N&V International
• PepsiCo
• Pratt Industries
• Pratt Institute
• Prêt A Manger
• RockTenn
• Spectra-Kote Corporation
• Solo Cup Company
• Starbucks Coffee Company
• Transtech
• Ulterion
• Waste Management
• WMU Coating and Recycling Pilot Plant

People

(Accessed November 2011)

• Chair - Scott Seydel (President, The Seydel Companies)
• President Emerita and Founder, Immediate Past Chair - Diane Meyer Simon
• Treasurer - Robert S. Bucklin (Vice Chairman, Rabobank North America Wholesale)
• Secretary - Zem Joaquin
• President and CEO - Matt Petersen

Directors:

(Accessed November 2011)

• Mr. Carlton A. Brown (COO, Full Spectrum of NY)
• Sebastian Copeland
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Christy Ferer (CEO & Founder, Vidicom)
• Anna Getty
• The Honorable Lee Hamilton (Director, The Center on Congress at Indiana University)
• Jordan Harris (Co-Founder, OZOCar)
• Cody Horn
• Thomas Mayne (Architect, morphosis)
• Pat Mitchell (President/CEO, The Museum of Television & Radio)
• Jerry Moss (Co-Founder, A&M Records)
• Edward Norton
• Mr. Pierre Andre Senizergues (CEO & Founder, Sole Technology, Inc.)
• Jeremy Wiesen
• Christiana Wyly (Operating Partner, Satori Capital)

Advisory Council:

(Accessed November 2011)

• Homero Aridjis
• Jason Berman
• Leila Conners
• Jayni Chase
• John Paul deJoria
• John Emerson
• Ambassador Wyche Fowler
• Nathan Gardels
• Jane Goodall, DBE
• The Honorable Gary Hart
• David Hoffman
• Gale Anne Hurd
• Bruce Katz
• The Honorable Robert Kerrey
• Norman Lear
• Chief Oren Lyons
• Rev. James Parks Morton
• The Honorable Christopher Shays
• Marianne Williamson

Contact

(Accessed November 2011)

2218 Main Street, 2nd Floor

Santa Monica, CA 90405

Phone: 310.581.2700

Fax: 310.581.2702

Email: ggusa@globalgreen.org

Web: http://www.globalgreen.org

Resources and articles

Related Sourcewatch articles

• Stephan McGuire
• Eric Garcetti
• Hugh Locke - former Executive Director
• Richard Wegman
• Toxic sludge
• Toxic Sludge Portal
• Sewage sludge
• Sludge contaminants
• Warren Karlenzig - author