User:TomButler

Tom Butler is a 96' Graduate of Indiana University Bloomington's Master of Environmental Science Program and has a double concentration in Water Resource Management and Hazardous Waste Management. He has worked for over twenty years on government and business sustainability programs that benefit economic development and the environment.

Mr. Butler first developed a private/ public partnership of voluntary hazardous waste collection programs for small business in Monroe, County, Indiana, USA in 1993. He went on to assist the State of Indiana with the development of programs for industrial land recycling under the first Federal grant to the State of Indiana. After graduate school, Mr. Butler worked in the development of the CERCLIS system, the first unified internet based national database for the management of the US EPA's Superfund program to clean up orphan industrial sites.

In 2007, Mr. Butler attended the second annual Prosper.com conference for P2P direct lending in San Francisco and was an invited speaker at the 2007 Claritas Precision Marketing Conference in Coronado, CA.

On June 12, 2009 Mr. Butler presented at the National Algae Association Conference in Orlando, Florida.

In 2010, Mr. Butler worked on research and development focusing on research into the potential for cogeneration of energy from biofuels and wastewater management systems in our region Mr. Butler's consulting firm, The Sustainable Life Center in Elkhart, IN, has worked on business planning, environmental permit negotiations, patent writing assistance, intellectual property partnerships, community relations, advocacy and grass roots economic redevelopment, and grant writing. He has consulted with three algae technology development companies and has focused on recycling nutrients and saving energy with new low energy based biological remediation systems for agriculture, municipalities and industry.

In 2011 Mr. Butler was chosen to be a Fellow at Indiana University South Bend's Center for a Sustainable Future where he received training from the Swedish based sustainability development organization The Natural Step During his fellowship, he collaborated with Center faculty on algae technology research for food, fuel and wastewater remediation and worked with professionals in Chicago on projects related to more sustainable development of food packaging.

Currently Mr. Butler is working on a direct lending program to assist artisans, antique dealers and interior design customer with project finance in South Bend, Indiana, USA. Mr. Butler is currently assist the P2P Foundation with outreach and communications.