Kevin Anton’s 30-plus-year career working in metals and mining led him to become the Vice President and first Chief Sustainability Officer in Alcoa’s 125-year history. Alcoa is the largest integrated aluminum company in the world, tracing the metal step by step from mining all the way to putting products on the shelf. Perhaps the most […]

Jon Christensen, adjunct professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, has a career-spanning history dealing with environmental issues as a journalist for countless notable magazines, journals and other publications. Now, Christensen is settling into a new role with UCLA that began in 2012. Christen calls Los Angeles a “great global, diverse city facing global […]

Michael Owens has been producing events on the built environment for more than 15 years. Now, he turns his focus to the upcoming Sustainable Facilities Summit, set to take place in Lake Tahoe, CA, from June 23 to 25, 2013. The event aims to go beyond the typical topics of LEED certification, green design, retrofitting and rebuilding to […]

World-class environmental photographer Daniel Beltrá began taking pictures as a childhood hobby in his native Madrid, Spain, before his talent evolved into a way to highlight his passion for nature. Now based in Seattle, Beltrá has traveled the globe, snapping pictures of everything from the most remote forests to the tragic realities of the BP […]

Kevin Campbell, Manager of Fleet Services at the City of Chicago’s Department of Fleet and Facility Management, aims to conserve across a network of more than 3,000 police vehicles, 500 garbage trucks, 300 salt-spreader trucks, 125 street sweepers and 100 ambulances — a total fleet of more than 12,000 vehicles. A handful of measures, from […]