CCP Staff
Jack R. Geibig, P.E., is the Director of the Center for Clean Products at the University of Tennessee. Since joining the Center in 1994, Mr. Geibig has focused on the evaluation and promotion of clean materials, products, and processes that restrict the use of toxic materials and reduce system impacts to both human health and the environment. Jack is a leader in the development of environmental product and material standards, materials-based research, and other tools and approaches leading to sustainable material and product systems. Past research efforts have led to the adoption of alternative products or processes directly responsible for reducing or eliminating the use of toxic materials from several key industry sectors. He also has extensive experience leading collaborative, multi-stakeholder research using life-cycle and risk-based analyses focused on improving the environmental performance of product and materials systems.
Mr. Geibig has published research in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Pollution Prevention Review, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, and Pollution Prevention Review, and currently serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Cleaner Production.
He holds degrees in both chemical and environmental engineering and is currently licensed as a Professional Engineer in the State of Tennessee.
Contact info: jgeibig@utk.edu, 865.974.6513
Catherine Wilt is the Director of Policy for the Center for Clean Products at the University of Tennessee, where she has worked since 1990. Ms. Wilt has significant research experience in identifying environmental, regulatory and business trends related to integrated product policy, pollution prevention, recycling, environmentally-preferable procurement, and waste management, as well as analysis of international, federal and state environmental regulations. Her past research has culminated in development of national and state policy and planning initiatives for pollution prevention and product stewardship. She has served as research coordinator and facilitator of key, national multi-stakeholder dialogues for product stewardship of specific products, including work with the electronics and carpet sectors She has been a frequent contributor to policy dialogues and frameworking by the Organization for Economic and Cooperative Development, the US EPA, and Environment Canada on producer responsibility and product stewardship trends.
Ms. Wilt has published widely on pollution prevention and sustainability issues in such publications as Environment, World Resource Review, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Environment and Development, Air and Waste and Resource Recycling. Ms. Wilt has a B.A. in Political Science and History and a Masters in Environmental Planning from the University of Tennessee; she is currently a candidate in the Erasmus University International Ph.D. Program in Industrial Ecology and Sustainability.
Ms. Wilt is a past President and Chair of the National Recycling Coalition. She is active in many local, state, and national environmental organizations.
Contact info: catwilt@utk.edu, 865.974.1915
Amanda McKenna has been a Research Associate for the Center for Clean Products since August 2007. She endeavors to promote and implement proactive, environmentally neutral approaches in the practices of industry and in the daily lives of individuals by applying engineering concepts to improve current habits.
Her current projects include collaborating with the Natural Stone Council (NSC) to characterize the stone industry’s environmental profile and identify best management practices of quarrying and processing activities. The goals of the project are to understand the natural stone industry’s current position in the green building movement and to develop a proactive sustainability plan to continually improve that status.
She is also working with the Weeden Foundation to compare the environmental impacts of tree-based paper to those of kenaf-based paper. Kenaf is an annual, cane-like crop that can supply fiber used for pulp and paper production. This research aims to resolve the claim that kenaf-based paper induces a smaller environmental burden than tree-based paper.