ABOUT AUTHOR CARL FRANKEL

Carl Frankel is a nationally-known writer, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur specializing in sustainable development.

Frankel is currently a senior columnist with the US-based magazine green@work. His recently published book, Out of the Labyrinth: Who We Are, How We Go Wrong, and What We Can Do About It, "raises the literature on sustainability to a new level and is destined to be a classic," according to ecological economist Hazel Henderson."

Social and socially responsible enterprises Frankel currently works with, either as an entrepreneur or consultant, include Canopy Development, a sustainable real estate company; transForms, a socially responsible art and décor provider; Good Life Farm, a holistic health and arts retreat; and Community Benefit, which develops products and services that support the local economy. He is also completing a concept paper on the "Fourth Sector," an emerging model for social enterprise, with funding from The Kellogg Foundation and The Aspen Institute.

From 1996 through early 2001, Frankel was North American editor and subsequently contributing editor with Tomorrow Magazine, a Europe-based publication that tracked issues in business and sustainable development . In 1997 and 1998, Frankel was contributing editor to Yes! The Journal of Positive Futures. From 1990 through 1994, he was editor and publisher of the trade newsletter Green MarketAlert, which he founded.

His 1998 book, In Earth's Company: Business, Environment and the Challenge of Sustainability, has been called "the best book I have seen about the business aspects of sustainable development" (David Buzzelli, retired chief environmental officer,- Dow Chemical, ex-co-chair, President's Council on Sustainable Development), "a book to illuminate and guide" (Paul Hawken, author and lecturer), and "a very important book" (William McDonough, sustainable designer and dean, University of Virginia School of Architecture).

Frankel's articles on business and the environment have appeared in many magazines and journals, including Green Futures, IEEE Spectrum, American Demographics, and the Journal of Corporate Environmental Strategy. Environmental-management books he has contributed to include Environmental Strategies Handbook: A Guide to Effective Policies and Practices (McGraw-Hill), edited by Rao Kolluru, The Earthscan Reader in Business & Sustainable Development, edited by Richard Starkey and Richard Welford, and Environmental Marketing (McGraw-Hill), by Walter Coddington.

Frankel's roster of past consulting clients includes the Conference Board; Ecos Corporation (a sustainable-business consultancy); Collins & Aikman (a floor coverings manufacturer); PricewaterhouseCoopers; the Cambridge University Program on Business and Environment; the WorldWide Fund for Nature; the Sustainable Enterprise Academy; and Second Nature (a non-profit specializing in education for sustainability).

PDF of green@work article: The Tree Faces of Sustainablilty by Carl Frankel

Carl Frankel's website: www.carlfrankel.squarespace.com