Nov. 03, 2020
The University of Arkansas Graduate Net Impact Chapter is proud to host the first lecture in its Speaker Series, featuring Martin Wolf, director of sustainability and authenticity at Seventh Generation.
The lecture will be at 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, via Zoom.
Wolf brings over 40 years of experience in industrial and environmental chemistry to his work, starting with environmental fate and metabolism studies for agricultural chemicals, followed by studies of the occurrence of hazardous chemicals in the environment, conducting life cycle studies of product systems, and designing more sustainable household cleaning products.
Working at Seventh Generation, Wolf has developed frameworks for environmental product design, helped educate his coworkers, customers, and consumers about the environmental impacts of consumer products and the industries that produce them, successfully lobbied for passage of phosphate bans in a number of states, helped develop standards for voluntary ingredient disclosure, and brought change to the cleaning products industry through more sustainable product designs.
Wolf was appointed a Fellow of the Aspen Institute, Environmental Forum in 2006, and received an EPA Region 1 Environmental Merit Award in 2011. In 2013 Mr. Wolf was appointed by the National Academy of Science to the Committee on Design and Evaluation of Safer Chemical Substitutions. In 2015 he won the Elva Walker Spillane Distinguished Service Award of the American Cleaning Institute, and in 2016 was appointed to the Working Group On Toxic Chemical Use In Vermont by the State's Agency Of Natural Resources and to the State's Chemicals of High Concern for Children Working Group by the Vermont Department of Health. In 2019, Wolf was recognized as one of nine Heroes with Impact by Unilever Ltd. for his work on preserving the environment.
Wolf holds an M.A. in chemistry from Yeshiva University (New York) and a B.S. in chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Massachusetts)."
The meeting will take place via Zoom and can be accessed with the following information:
All students are welcome to attend, regardless of graduate status. For further information, please contact uarkgrad@netimpact.org.
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