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Richard Fuller (born 1960) is an Australian-born, U.S.-based engineer, entrepreneur and environmentalist best known for his work in global pollution remediation. He is founder and president of the nonprofit Blacksmith Institute,〔(www.blacksmithinstitute.org )〕 (recently renamed (Pure Earth )) dedicated to solving pollution problems in low and middle-income countries, where human health is at risk. He is also the founder and president of Great Forest, Inc.,〔(www.greatforest.com )〕 a leading sustainability consultancy in the U.S. In 2010, he was profiled in Time magazine's Power of One column〔http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2024212,00.html〕 about his efforts fighting global pollution. In 2014, Bloomberg Businessweek chronicled the growth of Blacksmith Institute/Pure Earth and Fuller's work on toxic pollution problems around the world, including a dangerous cleanup of a secret former Soviet arms site in the Ukraine.〔http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-15/the-chemical-weapons-ukrainian-separatists-didnt-get〕 In 2014, the (UN Dispatch ) profiled Fuller's work helping to shape the Sustainable Development Goals. Working with Pure Earth and the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution, Fuller was part of a global team that successfully worked to broaden the scope of toxic pollution addressed in the SDGs.〔http://www.undispatch.com/meet-2015-er-richard-fuller/〕 In 2015, Santa Monica Press published ("The Brown Agenda: My Mission To Clean Up The World's Most Life-Threatening Pollution" ), written by Fuller and Damon DiMarco. The book documents his adventures at some of the world's most toxic locations, and introduces readers to the plight of the poisoned poor, suggesting specific ways in which anyone can help combat brown sites all over the world. 〔http://www.salon.com/2015/08/09/the_poisoned_poor_in_poor_countries_man_made_toxic_pollutants_spread_like_cancer_heres_why_you_should_care/〕 "We've already solved most of the pollution problems in the West. There aren't people dying in droves in the U.S. or in England - they're all dying overseas, in low- and middle-income countries," the author of "The Brown Agenda" told the (Thomson Reuters Foundation. ) 〔http://www.trust.org/item/20150903130138-1unij/〕 ==Early career== After a stint in IBM, Fuller headed to the rainforests of Brazil to work on global environmental issues with the United Nations Environmental Programme. He then brought his experience to New York, establishing Great Forest Inc. to work on greening commercial buildings and corporations in the pioneering days of corporate social responsibility. Realizing that enhancing sustainability practices to corporations alone would not have enough impact on global environmental issues, Fuller started Blacksmith Institute to tackle the problem on a larger scale. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Fuller (environmentalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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