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The “Blue Line” website is an inspired idea, and I am honored to be asked to write a piece for it. Standing in my backyard in North Boulder seeking my own inspiration at sunset, a movement through the tree branches caught my attention. I’d [...]
About the author:
Eric Lombardi is the Executive Director of Eco-Cycle, Inc. (www.ecocycle.org), in Boulder, CO. and has had a long career in resource conservation, social enterprise development and non-profit (NGO) organizational management since 1980. Eco-Cycle, founded in 1976, is considered a nationwide pioneer in the recycling industry and has grown under Lombardi’s tenure (since 1989) to become the largest community-based recycling organization in the U.S.A. with a staff of 66 and processing of over 50,000 tons of diverse recycled materials per year (2009). Lombardi is recognized as an authority on developing comprehensive community-based resource recovery programs and is often a keynote speaker and consultant on the social and technical aspects of creating a “Zero Waste - Or Darn Near” society. Lombardi has experience both nationally and internationally as a project consultant, keynote speaker and workshop leader for government and private sector clients across the USA, and in New Zealand, England, France, Italy, Scotland, Romania, American Samoa, Wales and Saipan. Lombardi was invited to the Clinton White House in 1998 as one of the Top 100 USA Recyclers, and he co-founded the U.S. GrassRoots Recycling Network (www.GRRN.org), and the Zero Waste International Alliance, based in Wales (www.ZWIA.org).
