IAM1215 - Executive Director Creates Businesses Based on Sustainability

Adam Roberts is the Executive Director of Bethesda Green, a Maryland nonprofit organization that is working to address environmental challenges locally by creating a sustainable, green community, built collaboratively through citizen engagement, environmental education, government partnership and innovative business development. They focus on local environmental projects such as increasing access to recycling and composting or planting raingardens to mitigate storm-water runoff; run an environmental education program for local high school students; and maintain the Bethesda Green Innovation Lab, which cultivates and nurtures eco-entrepreneurs, working to create businesses based on sustainability. He has spent three decades in the nonprofit sector, previously focused on international animal protection and wildlife conservation.   Website: www.bethesdagreen.org   Facebook: BethesdaGreen LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/9287319 Twitter: bethesdagreen Instagram: bethesdagreen Youtube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCCnYD_wh0t4Us7f9Srn2yxw