Co-Director, SHINE
HSPH CHGE
Co-Director
Center for Health and the Global Environment Sustainability and Health Initiative for NetPositive Enterprise (SHINE)
Adjunct Lecturer on Life Cycle Assessment
Department of Environmental Health
Harvard. T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Greg Norris is Adjunct Lecturer with the Harvard T.H. Chan 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.
