Greg Norris is Adjunct Lecturer with the Harvard School of Public Health, where he teaches life cycle assessment (LCA) and advises graduate students in related research. He is also Visiting Professor with the Applied Sustainability Center at the University of Arkansas, where he serves as Director of Research for The Sustainability Consortium (TSC).

Norris founded New Earth, a non-profit institute developing and deploying technologies that enable people around the world to drive sustainable development “from the bottom up.” Its projects include Earthster (www.earthster.org), an open source platform for product-level sustainability assessment; Handprinter (www.handprinter.org), which helps people take actions at home and at work which more than compensate for their environmental and social “footprints”; and the Social Hot Spots Database (www.socialhotspots.org), a transparent data source on supply chain impacts and opportunities for improving human rights, working conditions, community and other social impacts.

In 1996 Norris founded Sylvatica, an international life cycle assessment institute (www.sylvatica.com) which consults on LCA to the UN, governments in the US and abroad, a variety of Fortune 500 companies, industrial associations, and smaller companies, and the non-profit sector. Norris is a member of the Royal Government of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group, comprised of 50-60 top economists, scientists, philosophers, and accomplished professionals from around the world, commissioned to draft a new global development paradigm to promote wellbeing and happiness as a global goal through effective and pragmatic international public policies. He is an editor for the International Journal of LCA, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and Greenhouse Gas Measurement and Management.

Andrew Madden, Director of Materials Management, Brigham & Women's Health Care

Andrew Madden is the Director of Materials Management for Brigham and Women's Healthcare, a founding member of Partners Healthcare Inc. BWHC is a combination of a large 800 bed AMC (Brigham and Women's Hospital) and a community hospital of 175 beds (Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital). Andrew has been working at Partners for 32 years. Andrew served 19 years at a 300 bed community hospital and his last role at that facility was the Operations Manager of Materials Management. Andrew managed the day to day operations of Supply support, Equipment, Linen, Purchasing, Mailroom, Contracts, Shipping/receiving and Value Analysis with an operating budget of 3 million and a staff of 25. For the past 13 years Andrew has served as the director of MM for BWHC. He manages an operating budget of 10 million, a staff of 150 and supply management of $200 million. Andrew is the chair of several Value Analysis committees, Chair of the Sharps Safety Comm and Chair of the Sustainability program. He also volunteers his time to support many philanthropic events such as the annual golf tournament that he chairs. 

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