John R. Ehrenfeld

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Name: John R. Ehrenfeld
Member Since: June 20th, 2006
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Dr. Ehrenfeld is Executive Director of the International Society for Industrial Ecology. He retired in 2000 as the Director of the MIT Program on Technology, Business, and Environment, an interdisciplinary educational, research, and policy program. He continues to teach, do research, and write. His current projects focus on industrial ecology and on sustainability. He serves on the adjunct faculty at the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute where he teaches Radical Sustainability. In October 1999, the World Resources Institute honored him with a lifetime achievement award for his academic accomplishments in the field of business and environment. He received the Founders Award for Distinguished Service from the Academy of Management's Organization and Natural Environment Division in August 2000. He spent part of the 1998-1999 academic year at the Technical University of Lisbon as a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar and was Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Delft during the 2000-1 academic year. He serves on several external advisory boards. In 2005, he was elected to the Council of Trustees of the Society of Organizational Learning. He is an editor of the Journal of Industrial Ecology. He holds a B. S. and Sc. D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and is author or co-author of over 200 papers, books, reports, and other publications.

E-mail: john.ehrenfeld@alum.mit.edu John Ehrenfeld