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editorial staff
Don C. Brunell, Publisher
Jocelyn A. McCabe, APR, Executive Editor
Jason Hagey, Communications Manager
Daniel C. Brunell, Photo Editor
J-Anne Nepomuceno, Editorial Assistant
What’s Ahead
awb officers
Tom Hosea, Chair of the Board
KeyBank, Tacoma
Doug Bayne, Vice Chair
Walla Walla Community College, Walla Walla
Mel Russell, Secretary/Treasurer
From Paint to Pepsi
Jocelyn A. McCabe, APR, Executive Editor
Aldercreek Vineyards, Vancouver
Lynn Townsend-White, Immediate Past Chair
Western Polymer, Moses Lake
Don C. Brunell, President
The late C. David Gordon, Honorary President
awb executive team
Don C. Brunell, President
Gary Chandler, VP, Government Affairs
Kris Johnson, VP, Operations
Jocelyn A. McCabe, APR, VP, Communications
Chances are good that if you’ve been to a Seattle Sounders or Seahawks game
at CenturyLink Stadium, you’ve been a part of history. It has nothing to do with
goals or touchdowns and everything to do with innovation. And paint.
All those hash marks and logos painted on the field? They’re all part of a very
deliberate effort by Seattle-based Eco Chemical to take a fairly basic material —
paint — and make it more environmentally sustainable. Eco Chemical is one of
seven winners of this year’s AWB Environmental Excellence Awards, chronicled in
our cover story by writer Jason Hagey.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the association’s environmental
awards — a program that almost didn’t get off the ground because some thought
businesses didn’t care about the environment. Twenty years and hundreds of
success stories later, AWB companies like Eco Chemical are still disproving the
stereotype.
“It’s clear this award program was as much about encouragement as it was
recognition,” said Hagey, who interviewed both AWB President Don Brunell and
the program’s lead organizer and judge, environmental attorney Ken Weiner. “Even
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