Andrew L. Shapiro
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Andrew L. Shapiro has been an influential voice on environmental innovation in business for a decade. He has built a career, and a pioneering advisory group, GreenOrder
GreenOrder
GreenOrder is a consulting firm that works with companies to improve environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.- Emergence :...

, around the idea that sustainability can be a critical driver of profitable growth.

Through his speaking engagements, authorship and professional practice, Andrew has helped business leaders at some of the world's largest companies build integrated cultures of environmental innovation that create long term business value. His visionary perspective shaped a discourse on sustainable practices in the corporate world long before "going green" was common parlance. GreenOrder
GreenOrder
GreenOrder is a consulting firm that works with companies to improve environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.- Emergence :...

, founded in 2000, is recognized for its groundbreaking work with GE
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, DuPont
DuPont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company , commonly referred to as DuPont, is an American chemical company that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont. DuPont was the world's third largest chemical company based on market capitalization and ninth based on revenue in 2009...

, General Motors
General Motors
General Motors Company , commonly known as GM, formerly incorporated as General Motors Corporation, is an American multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan and the world's second-largest automaker in 2010...

, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer
Pfizer
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 and Polo Ralph Lauren
Polo Ralph Lauren
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, among others.

Since 2004, Andrew and the GreenOrder
GreenOrder
GreenOrder is a consulting firm that works with companies to improve environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.- Emergence :...

 group have guided the creation and development of GE
Gê are the people who spoke Ge languages of the northern South American Caribbean coast and Brazil. In Brazil the Gê were found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piaui, Mato Grosso, Goias, Tocantins, Maranhão, and as far south as Paraguay....

's award-winning, multi-billion dollar ecomagination initiative. GreenOrder
GreenOrder
GreenOrder is a consulting firm that works with companies to improve environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.- Emergence :...

 continues to work with Jeff Immelt and his senior team, as well as multiple GE
Gê are the people who spoke Ge languages of the northern South American Caribbean coast and Brazil. In Brazil the Gê were found in Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Piaui, Mato Grosso, Goias, Tocantins, Maranhão, and as far south as Paraguay....

 business units on implementation, training and the identification of new product and market opportunities.

Andrew's interdisciplinary approach encourages senior executives to use environmental sustainability as a lens to transform how they see their business. He is a frequent presenter, panelist and advisor, and his views have been quoted extensively in print and broadcast media, including The New York Times, Vanity Fair, CNN and MSNBC. Tom Friedman
Thomas Friedman
Thomas Lauren Friedman is an American journalist, columnist and author. He writes a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He has written extensively on foreign affairs including global trade, the Middle East, and environmental issues and has won the Pulitzer Prize three times.-Personal...

, notable journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient, has included Andrew's thoughts and quotes in his best-selling book, Hot, Flat and Crowded. Recent presentations include TED, the Forbes CEO Forum, World Environmental Center, Fortune Brainstorm Green, the Aspen Ideas Festival and the Wall Street Journal Eco:nomics conference.

Andrew has been profiled in a New York Times business section feature, "A Dollars-and-Cents Man with a Green Philosophy," and he was named one of two dozen "Enviro All-Stars" by Outside magazine. He is the only strategist on Inc. magazine's list of "50 entrepreneurs who are changing the way we live today." He is a member of the Urban Land Institute
Urban Land Institute
The Urban Land Institute, or ULI, is a non-profit research and education organization with offices in Washington, D.C., Hong Kong, and London...

 Trustees' Advisory Committee on Energy and Climate Change; the advisory committee of the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; and the board of the Southern Center for Human Rights
Southern Center for Human Rights
The Southern Center for Human Rights is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to enforcing the civil and human rights of people in the criminal justice system in the South...

. Andrew is also co-founder and chairman of GO Ventures, which creates and invests in cleantech and green businesses including California Bioenergy, Class Green Capital and GreenYour.com. He serves on the advisory boards of a number of companies, including LivingHomes, Meetup.com, and Serious Materials.

Andrew Shapiro is a Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

 and Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

 graduate. While at Yale he was co-editor-in-chief of The Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. He later was a contributing editor for The Nation magazine. He has served as director of the Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project
In 1992 Andrew authored We're Number One!: Where America Stands-and Falls-in the New World Order.
In 1999 Andrew authored The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge and Changing the World We Know which discusses the consequences of the uninhibited personalization afforded by the Internet.
In 2000 Andrew founded GreenOrder
GreenOrder
GreenOrder is a consulting firm that works with companies to improve environmental sustainability. It was established in 2000 by Andrew L. Shapiro.- Emergence :...

, "the go-to consulting company for green business."

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