About the Green Team
We are a global team of 2,500+ eBay Inc. employees and more than 300,000 members of the eBay community. Together, we are committed to helping the world buy, sell and think green every day.
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In 2007 the eBay Green Team started as a group of 40 passionate eBay employees who wanted to make our company a truly green place to work.
We’ve grown into a group of more than 2,500 eBay employees in over 25 countries, all promoting green, sustainable business practices within eBay, volunteering in our communities, and supporting environmental legislation. As a team, we’ve launched our eBay reusable box program to make shipping easier and greener, helped fight e-waste by making it easy to reuse and recycle electronics with eBay Instant Sale, and worked to lighten our own ecological footprint with our eBay campus Zero Waste program and LEED certified data centers.
As the world's largest marketplace for used, refurbished and vintage goods, eBay's biggest opportunity lies with its buyers and sellers—the millions of people that make up the eBay community worldwide. Now over 300,000 strong, eBay Green Team members make up a vibrant community, committed to a greener lifestyle of better products, better business, and a better way of living. As all of us at the eBay Green Team know – real positive environmental impact happens when people make seemingly small, eco-friendly choices on a regular basis. As we’ve seen from the efforts of our 300,000 eBay Green Team members, this impact can really add up!
Join us in making a positive impact on the world.
Green Team Contributors
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Annie Lescroart has spent her career helping companies and nonprofits articulate and communicate the ways in which they make the world a better place. Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she spent nearly five years working for communications firms in New York and Boston. There, she consulted with clients that ranged from the United Nations to Harley Davidson to Pfizer, helping them build and execute meaningful communications platforms for their causes and social commitments. Now happily back in the Bay Area at eBay, she is a card carrying member of the nearly 300,000-member Green Team, where she focuses her efforts on digging up the great green stories that lie within the eBay universe and finding new ways to tell them to the world. When she’s not working, you can probably find her on a hiking trail somewhere, cooking in her tiny but effective kitchen, or on a plane.
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A writer, designer, and sustainability strategist, Caitlin believes you can have your organic cake and eat it too. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest and spending summers in her mother's native Australia, Caitlin's sense of environmental stewardship developed at a young age - as did her love of travel. Having spent time in over twenty countries, including volunteer work in India and Africa, her experiences instilled a deep appreciation of nature’s beautifully efficient, waste-free, regenerative cycles. Before joining eBay, she managed content and lead creative for ecofabulous.com - a leading voice in stylish, sustainable living. There she worked on strategic programs and media campaigns with companies such as Intel, Safeway, Method, Sprint, Dwell, Levi’s, and Electrolux. When she’s not working towards the seamless integration of sustainability and design, she can be found exploring the San Francisco Bay Area on two wheels.
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Danielle has a passion for all things international—travelling, learning languages, and enjoying the traditional arts and cuisine of different countries. She studied Cultural Anthropology as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, leading her to seek out pragmatic, impact-driven models for alleviating global poverty, and eventually joined the WorldofGood.com team at eBay to help make a positive difference in our world through commerce. Danielle inherited a strong aversion to waste from her Iraqi grandmother, which has fueled her passion for sustainable living and creative reuse. Nothing thrills Danielle more than to find the perfect use to divert an object from the landfill and give it a new purpose. As the merchandiser for green.ebay.com, it gives her great pleasure to help you do the same.
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Dean is the Sr. Director of Global Foundation Services for eBay Inc, the world’s largest online marketplace. He is responsible for Strategy, Architecture and Operational functions of eBay's Mission Critical Data Centers, Networking and Security Infrastructure Services. Dean is also a core member of the eBay Green Team. Dean has been in the high tech industry for 21 years, 17 of which were at Sun Microsystems where his final role was managing Sun’s multi-billion dollar global technical infrastructure portfolio. Dean is a member of The Green Grid End User Advisory Council, Technical Advisory Board for Mission Critical Magazine, and founder of Data Center Pulse - an exclusive datacenter owner community. Author of the Sun Microsystems Blueprint series - Energy Efficient Datacenters, Dean is also an avid blogger through his Geekism blog. Dean was featured as a Sun Microsystems Contrarian Mind, identified by SearchDatacenter.com as one of the top five people who changed the data center and is also the recipient of Sun’s prestigious Innovation Award.
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Over the last few years, Gaurav Rekhi has had the opportunity to channel his passion and love for new technology into the sustainability space, first through the development and launch of WorldofGood.com, eBay's marketplace for ethically-sourced and fairly traded goods, and most recently, by leading efforts to bring green shopping deeper into the eBay buying and selling experience. Last Spring, he led the product team that launched the eBay Green Shopping Hub and this Fall, worked with eBay sellers and a team of entrepreneurial employees to launch eBay Instant Sale for selling refurbished and used electronics. Gaurav gets his green kicks by gardening, biking, and gobbling up books on his e-reader, and loves spending time with his wife, kids and dog.
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Jill Primost is the community outreach manager for WorldofGood.com, responsible for the marketplace’s presence in social media and other social networks. She’s WorldofGood.com’s resident blogger, Tweeter, Facebooker, and contest organizer, all the while supporting marketing and mainstream media relations activities. Jill graduated from Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and has spent her time out of college writing for newspapers and magazines, as well as an account executive for a Bay Area high tech public relations agency. Her passion is engaging the conscious consumer and growing awareness about global environmental and social issues.
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Kevin has been with eBay since 2000 and recently joined the eBay Canada team in the latter part of 2009. In addition to leading the Green Team for Canada, Kevin works with eBay Canada Customer Support and manages the community discussion boards. As someone who enjoys working with the Earth, Kevin participated in the community gardens program in Vancouver, which aims to provide city communities with more green space while providing the opportunity to grow your own organic food. Kevin also enjoys biking, snowboarding, traveling the world and cooking (especially Indian food!).
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Lori Duvall is the Director of Operational Sustainability at eBay and an unapologetic tree hugger. Lori uses her diverse background in environmental analysis, sustainable business strategy and high technology to understand and drive improvements in eBay's environmental footprint. She's a big supporter of collaboration on sustainability issues and has served on a number of committees and advisory panels for groups such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, Business Council on Climate Change, and Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition. Before joining eBay, Lori was most recently the Director of Energy Solutions at SAP, and prior to that was with Sun Microsystems for 7 years, serving as their Senior Manager of Corporate Sustainability along with other roles. While at Sun she led the creation of OpenEco.org, an online community focused on energy efficiency, GHG emissions reduction and sustainable innovation. When not hard at work moving the needle on environmental issues, Lori's usually outside enjoying our beautiful planet.
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Lorin’s passionate about mobilizing people to make a positive difference. In her role as Head of EU Charity and Sustainability, she oversees the eBay for Charity program, which provides easy ways for eBay buyers and sellers to support their favorite causes. She’s also working to bring some of our most impactful environmental programs overseas. Prior to joining the European team, Lorin spent 2 1/2 years at eBay’s office in San Jose, where she worked on a variety of sustainability initiatives, including managing our 2,400-member strong employee Green Team, launching the eBay Box program and kicking off our partnership with Patagonia. Before eBay, Lorin was a consultant at Business for Social Responsibility, where she supported global companies in the energy and extractives industries on community and stakeholder engagement projects. Outside of work, you’ll probably find her jogging – or eating and drinking – her way around London.
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Pat has worked in the facilities field for 21 years. He started with eBay as an onsite contracted Assistant Chief Engineer in 2005 and became the Facilities Operations Manager in Sept of 2009. As a member of the WPR team, Pat assisted in the HVAC and Digital Climate Controls upgrade at eBay’s Whitman Campus, assisted in the build of the LEED Gold certified Building 17 at its North Campus and performed a great many energy projects.
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Siddharth is the General Manager of Sustainable Commerce at eBay, focusing on ways to make it easier for eBay shoppers to make environmentally friendly purchases. Prior to coming to eBay he co-founded World of Good, a venture-backed company connecting artisans from developing communities with mainstream retail markets. World of Good built market access for 25,000+ global producers from over 70 countries before eBay acquired the brand in 2010. He holds a BA in Biology from Colorado College and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley. He grew up in Bombay where he developed a dislike for waste, bottled water and zucchini. His eBay handle is buy_less_crap.
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JD has been with eBay for ten years and spent most of that time not only making it a great place to work for our employees, but also making sure eBay is a good corporate citizen in the communities in which we operate. Community Engagement and Social Media is his role on the eBay Green Team, so be sure to find us on Facebook and Twitter and chat him up when you can. He is a vegetarian foodie (yes, it is possible!), enjoys exploring everywhere he goes with the intention of finding things tourists and even locals never see and spends 110% of time away from work with the three awesome ladies in his life. Although he’s never seen the hole in the ozone, he does what he can to prevent it from growing.
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Guest contributors
The author of two books, Anna Getty's Easy Green Organic and I'm Dreaming of a Green Christmas, Anna Getty also blogs on her own site, PureStyleLiving.com and Mytuscanlife.com, among others. The founder of Pregnancy Awareness Month, a national educational and empowerment campaign for mothers-to-be and their families, Anna Getty also serves on the boards of The Organic Center, Healthy Child Healthy World and Global Green. Anna proudly is a mother of two and spends her time with her family between her organic olive oil farm in Tuscany and Los Angeles.
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Bradley Berman is the founder and editor of HybridCars.com and PluginCars.com. Mr. Berman is a regular contributor to The New York Times, writing about electric cars and other forms of alternative green transportation. He also contributes to Reuters, Detroit Free Press, BusinessWeek Online, Yahoo!Autos, and other publications. Mr. Berman serves as the transportation editor for Home Power magazine, which is distributed to newsstands throughout the United States. He is frequently quoted in national media outlets, such as National Public Radio, CBS News, ABC News, CNBC, CBC, MarketWatch, and National Geographic. Mr. Berman is a tireless researcher of the hybrid and electric car market. He speaks directly to industry insiders and participates as a panelist and moderator at professional conferences, such as Green Drive Expo, Society of Automotive Engineers' Hybrid Symposium, the Electric Drive Transportation Association conference, and AutoFutureTech—a part of the Globe Conference on Business and the Environment in Vancouver, Canada, where he also serves as program director. Mr. Berman’s career includes experience as a journalist, entrepreneur, web production and usability expert.
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Danna Crawford started selling on eBay in 1997. 10 years later, in 2007, PowerSellingMom.com was born! As a Winner of the 2008 eBay Hall of Fame award, Danna takes great pride being a member of the eBay community, and helping people succeed by selling online, from home and keeping the family first. In 2007, Danna became an education specialist trained by eBay, and in 2009, she became certified by completing the Business Consultant program provided by eBay. Danna is extremely proud to one of only 29 in the country! Danna was presented with the eBay Giving Works Golden Ribbon community seller award in June 2008, a welcome recognition to the goal of helping nonprofits with fund raising through the eBay Giving Works platform. She also supports the eBay Green Team, and stands behind the values of "Green Education!" Danna started the website, GreenShippingRocks.com, to help other eBay sellers take the pledge to ship green.
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Domenica has multiple years experience in international development, ethical fashion and couture fashion. She has led social entrepreneurship organizations, coordinated international aid projects and worked with the U.S. based Fair Trade pioneer Fair Trade USA. She worked in London doing public relations for the Fair Trade Fashion label PeopleTree and in Brussels sewing for the couture fashion label NATAN. In addition to GATF, Domenica is director of sustainability and production coordinator for couture designer Mark Zunino in LA. She also is a contributing writer for publications like Ecouterre and Coco Eco magazine. Domenica sees ethical fashion as an ideal tool for solving the critical global environmental and social problems of today.
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A current Master of International Business Candidate, at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Gabrielle spent the summer of 2011 with the eBay Green Team as an EDF Climate Corps fellow, helping eBay work through some energy efficiency investments in our data centers and office space as well as help design a long-term energy strategy. Gabrielle's future goals are to make businesses more sustainable and use that competitive advantage as a driver to improve profitability.
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Rick Ridgeway is Patagonia’s Vice President of Environmental Initiatives where he implements the company’s mission statement “to make products with no unnecessary harm, and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis”. On his watch, the company has implementing vanguard environmental and sustainability initiatives including Freedom to Roam, Common Threads and the Footprint Chronicles, and he also co-founded the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. In addition to business, Rick is recognized as one of the world’s foremost mountaineers and adventurers, making the first American ascent of K2, considered the hardest mountain in the world to climb. He has produced and directed several documentary films, written dozens of magazine articles and six books. National Geographic recently honored him with its “Lifetime Achievement in Adventure” award. Rick lives with his wife in Ojai, California, and they have three grown children.
Irish born, Indian raised and Brooklyn based, Sheena is the founder, creative director and first Pilot of the Uniform Project. In May 2009, Sheena came up with an unusual creative challenge; to wear the same dress for an entire year as an exercise in sustainable fashion. The challenge was also designed to be an online fundraiser, raising money to send underprivileged kids to school. By the end of the yearlong challenge, the Uniform project site received over 2 million hits and raised over $100,000 in donations for the Akanksha Foundation and Sheena was named one of Elle Magazine’s Women of the Year 2009.
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The Inside Source is a digital media destination that harnesses the eBay shopping community’s real time buying and selling activity to curate proprietary insights that shape the retail industry and American consumer’s lifestyles. The Inside Source offers fresh, original perspective and editorial content, such as feature articles and opinion pieces written by journalists and shopping specialists, that provides an insider look at what’s hot and what’s next. Visit The Inside Source daily to catch up on the latest mainstream and niche trends, peruse our multimedia gallery of videos and photos, post comments and share ideas with like-minded trendsetters from next door and abroad. You can also submit story ideas to our editors; like the global marketplace that inspires us, The Inside Source is listening and wants to hear from you. We trendspot. You trendset.
Eco-expert Zem Joaquin founded ecofabulous as a result of her personal journey into sustainability. She realized that the products she was using in her home were unhealthy and contributing to her children’s asthma. The more she learned during the process of transforming her own home into a healthy environment, the more she turned towards an eco lifestyle and felt compelled to share that research. Zem has been a contributing editor at House & Garden, Domino, Architectural Digest and 7x7 Magazines. Mentored and inspired by iconic architect, William McDonough, Zem is a certified design and strategy consultant who helps companies and individuals create beautiful, smart, sustainable spaces and practices. In addition, Zem is an active board member of Global Green, Healthy Child Healthy World, Teens Turning Green and The Green Products Innovation Institute. Much of her penchant for superior design comes from living in a number of European cities, including London and Milan. Her love for the earth, however, can be traced back to her upbringing in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she was taught the value of sustainability at a young age. ecofabulous is devoted to sharing a wealth of information about how to live a sustainable life without compromising style or quality.
