Green Team Hosts Leader in Pollution Prevention

On Monday, October 3, Green Team Southwestern hosted a speaker during the annual Lunches with Leaders event at Southwestern College. Lunches with Leaders is put on by Leadership Southwestern and allows campus organizations to bring in experts from their specific fields to share their thoughts on leadership development and how they became the leader that they are today.

The Green Team presentation was given by David A.Carter, pollution prevention specialist from Kansas State University. Carter has served as a pollution prevention specialist with the Kansas State University Pollution Prevention Institute since June 2006.  Prior to coming to K-State, Carter was in private consulting, assisting federal facilities and private organizations in environmental compliance and implementing the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS) standard.  Carter is certified as an energy manager by the Association of Energy Engineers and is a RABQSA-certified ISO 14001 EMS auditor.  Carter received his B.S. in Biology from Florida Tech and his M.S. in Toxicology from Kansas State University.

Carter spoke to a group of 23 Southwestern students. He spoke about his time in the military and how ways to become a leader are to be willing to speak your mind and be available to do what is needed. Carter got his start in the environmental industry in the military and said that it was the best decision he ever made. He has an intense passion for the betterment of the environment and he strives to live out his beliefs and values in his everyday actions.

Carter, while he was on the SC campus, also taught the students in the Introduction to Sustainability I class about energy efficiency later that afternoon. Carter and Green Team Southwestern Director, Jason Speegle became acquainted with one another during their interactions in the Resourceful Kansas program.