CarbonFree^® Product Certification Technical Advisory Group

The Carbonfund.org Technical Advisory Group (TAG) was created to provide strategic guidance and advise the CarbonFree^® Product Certification Program.

The TAG:

1. Advises Carbonfund.org on technical questions regarding our CarbonFree^®
   Product Certification Carbon Footprint Protocol.
2. Participates in discussions regarding Life-Cycle Assessment methodologies.
3. Provides additional technical expertise on an as-needed basis.

Dr. Susan E. Selke

Susan E. Selke is Associate Director of the School of Packaging at Michigan State University, where she has been a faculty member for 25 years. She holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from Michigan State. Her research interests include environmental impacts of packaging; sustainability; plastics recycling; biodegradable and biobased plastics; composites of plastics with natural fibers; life cycle assessment; nanotechnology and packaging; microcellular foams; mass transfer characteristics of plastics; oxygen absorbers, antimicrobials and other active packaging materials; shelf life assessment and modeling; and VCI materials to retard corrosion of metals. She has authored or coauthored several books on packaging materials and on packaging and environmental issues, as well as over 150 articles and book chapters. Courses she teaches include plastics packaging, packaging materials, packaging and the environment, stability and recycling of packaging materials, and analytical solutions to packaging design.

Michael Gillenwater

Michael Gillenwater is a co-founder, Executive Director, and Dean of the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute, a non-profit organization focused on training and professionalizing the global community of experts that measure, account for, audit and manage greenhouse gas emissions. Michael is actively engaged in the training experts for the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Climate Change secretariat and supports the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation programs. He has been a lead author for the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1999, and is a core advisor on the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol. At the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he co-established the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Program, and served on the U.S. delegation to the UN climate change negotiations. Michael is currently completing a PhD in the Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, where his research focuses on the design of tradable environmental commodities, emission offsets, and compliance monitoring and verification. He has a master’s degrees in environmental engineering and public policy from MIT, was a Fulbright scholar to the United Kingdom, and a mechanical engineering bachelors from Texas A&M.

Anne Landfield-Grieg

Anne Landfield Greig is the principal and owner of Four Elements Consulting, LLC, an environmental consulting firm specializing in Life Cycle Management.  She has over 12 years of experience in the environmental field, which includes environmental management, engineering, and legal environmental work.  At Four Elements, Anne provides Life Cycle Assessment and climate change services to help corporations, government and non-governmental organizations find valuable environmental and cost management solutions for their products and operations.  Over the past several years, Anne has actively participated in global Life Cycle Management workshops and helped prepare a practical handbook developed under the UNEP Life Cycle Initiative program.  She has been serving on the task force to bring LCA into the US Green Building Council’s LEED green building rating system.  Anne holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from Boston College and a Master of Science in Environmental Management from Duke University.

Lise Laurin

Lise Laurin founded EarthShift to support businesses in their endeavor to reduce environmental impacts. EarthShift provides Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and total cost Assessment (TCA) consulting and training and offers both LCA and TCA software. Prior to EarthShift, Lise worked with electronics and semiconductor companies in marketing, manufacturing, and development. She began her professional life as a process engineer at Intel. She holds a BS in Physics from Yale University.

Dr. Shelie Miller

Dr. Shelie Miller is an assistant professor of Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson University.  Dr. Miller received her PhD in Civil and Materials Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006.  She also has an M.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Clarkson University and a B.S. in Chemistry from Denison University.

Dr. Miller became interested in the field of sustainability while working on a National Science Foundation program with Alcoa Inc. from 2001-2005 to assess the environmental benefits of soybean-based lubricants for use in aluminum rolling.  Since then, her interests have primarily focused on bio-based energy and developing an economically and environmentally sound strategy for developing a bioenergy industry within the Southeast.