Mr. Earle founded the Assabet Group. He has created innovative and business-based solutions to environmental problems for two decades. Mr. Earle is the author of numerous papers and speeches on environmental strategy, environmental management, recycling, and life cycle analysis.  
 
Mr. Earle has developed market-based environmental solutions in the private, non-profit and public sectors. Prior to The Assabet Group, Mr. Earle was  founding Director of the Alliance for Environmental Innovation, a project of Environmental Defense and The Pew Charitable Trusts. He established the Alliance as one of the preeminent business/NGO environmental partnership organizations in the country. The Alliance's projects with SC Johnson, Starbucks, and United Parcel Service have been widely hailed as an example of positive environmental change. 
 
Prior to the Alliance, Mr. Earle led Arthur D. Little's Competitive Environmental Strategy practice, helping corporations integrate environmental considerations into  long-term decision making. Mr. Earle implemented this methodology in industries from chemicals to consumer products. He also developed and conducted a public training program in the approach. Also at Arthur D. Little, he managed an $8.5 million environmental auditing contract for the Department of Energy and led numerous projects in green marketing, environmental management systems assessments, and environmental business opportunities. An associate director in the firm, he was the recipient of Arthur D. Little awards for Innovation (twice), Staff Development, and Marketing. 
 
Mr. Earle also served as Assistant Secretary of Environmental Affairs for Massachusetts. He was responsible for setting and managing state policy on solid waste disposal and recycling. He managed the issuance of the state's first Solid Waste Master Plan, negotiated voluntary recycled paper purchase agreements with the state's newspaper publishers, and supervised five operating agencies in their solid waste and recycling policy making activities.
 
Prior to his government service, Mr. Earle was a strategy consultant with Strategy Associates and Strategic Planning Associates (now Mercer Management Consulting). His work focused on the cosmetics, oil and gas, and software industries. 
 
Mr. Earle serves on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Sustainable Product Design, on the Faculty of SustainAbility, and on the Board of Directors of the Environmental League of Massachusetts. He holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA, cum laude, from Harvard College.

The Assabet Group has worked with a number of market-leading organizations. Our experience includes: 
 
- Working with an international manufacturing firm to realize economic value from a variety of environmental initiatives including recycling, reduced air emissions, and proactive pollution prevention. 
 
- Working with an international consulting firm to develop a reporting infrastructure that effectively captures economic, social and environmental performance. 
 
- Working with a national NGO to quantify and monetize the economic benefits of environmental projects. 
 
- Working with an international trade association on programs to help its members realize economic value from environmental activities. 
 
- Working with an investment firm on how best to capture the investment value of environmental performance. 
 
- Working with a national foundation on their environmental grants program to create business change through partnerships with non-profits. 
 
- Working with a national foundation on investment policies that marry environmental objectives with superior portfolio importance. 
 
- Working with a national association to identify and prioritize the environmental issues it faces over the next ten years.