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Bainbridge Island hires Sustainability Advisor

The OASIS office in Washington recently hired Casey Bates as a full time employee. Casey is a Sustainability Advisor to the outdoor industry with experience in sustainability evaluation and benchmarking, implementing sustainable business practices, Design for Environment and sustainable product development, social and environmental reporting, climate change services and development of company culture. He is an MBA candidate in Sustainable Business at Bainbridge Graduate Institute where he is a member of the Sustainable Outdoor Industry Concentration.

Casey Bates is the representative member for OASIS to the Outdoor Industry Association Eco Work Group. This group aims to develop an industry-wide index that acts as a framework for organizations of all sizes to benchmark the environmental impacts of their products against other products within their organization and the outdoor industry. Casey is currently working with Feathered Friends in Seattle, a producer of down sleeping bags and garments, to design and develop a "greener" sleeping bag for Backpacker Magazine’s Zero Impact Challenge. Casey is also the Sustainability Advisor to Brooks Sports, a leading running shoe and apparel company based in Bothell, WA.

In addition to providing sustainability services to the outdoor industry, Casey also has experience in Ecological Sciences and field work. He has prior work experience evaluating understory vegetation response to fire at a burn site in Colorado, and has worked for the US Geological Survey in Colorado, Raytheon Polar Services in Antarctica, the US Forest Service in Arizona and Alaska State Parks in Seward, AK.

Casey will be developing sustainability consulting services for OASIS, with initial focus on working with companies in the outdoor industry.