Alison Kinn Bennett
Senior Advisor, US EPA
Alison Kinn Bennett is a senior advisor for sustainable products and purchasing in the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. Alison has focused her 20+ year career on leveraging private sector innovation and billions in federal spending to support cleaner and greener supply chains for all. She co-founded two influential networks within EPA—the Green Building Workgroup and the Sustainable Products & Purchasing Network—which bring together policy and technical staff to advance comprehensive, market-based approaches to environmental and human health protection. Since 2001, Alison has served in EPA’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program, representing EPA in the development of sustainability standards within ASTM International, NSF International, UL-Environment, and the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovations Institute, among others. In 2016, Alison and her team released their Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels—a game changer in bringing clarity to the sustainability marketplace.
My Sessions
Fahmida Ahmed Bangert
Sravan Chalasani
Sue Chiang
Sarah Church
Karen Cook
Denise Curtis
Mikhail Davis
Patricia Dillon
Tim Dombeck
Chris Erickson
Jeff Frost
Claire Kells
Kealy Herman
George Hodge
Rebecca Holliday
Alison Kinn Bennett
Billy Linstead Goldsmith
Michael Jones-Bey
Mary Ellen Mika
Molly Morabito
Josh Nothwang
Anastasia O’Rourke
Sarah O’Brien
Douglas Pilgrim
Joan Prummel
Jonathan Rivin
Gerald Robinson
Andrew Savini
Stephen Schulman
Toby Simpson
Parker Townley
Trisha Taneja
Cuno Van Geet
Liyang Wang
Chip Wood
This session is for innovative projects that are ready to be LAUNCHED, JOINED, EXPANDED, or REPLICATED! Presenters give an overview of new and innovative projects that advance sustainable purchasing. Attendees claim a seat at a roundtable with a topic of interest to them. Topics are repeated three times. Read more here about what to expect … read more >>