Vision
We envision a thriving and collaborative pet industry that creates positive impact for the communities and environments where we do business
Mission
We advance business through profitable environmental and social practices.
Core Values
Transparency: As a nonprofit we operate with transparency to our members and to the public so that they can hold us accountable for what we do and how we do it.
Collaboration: We value inclusive collaboration with manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, brands and retailers that leverages existing sustainability knowledge and experience as well as innovating solutions for sustainability issues facing the pet industry.
Authenticity: We know that sincere sustainability means more than marketing and quick wins; we promote continual sustainable improvement that directly reduces the impact of pet products on the global environment and communities.
Implementation Focused: We value genuine sustainability improvement that favors implementation and action-oriented participation by member companies.
Our Advisory Board
PSC relies on the strategic direction of its Advisory Board Members who meet on a bi-monthly basis to hear member feedback, provide guidance, set performance metrics, and ensure the organization maintains credible progress toward its mission. Please feel free to reach out to any of the Board members below any time.
Chris Bentley
Chief Environmental Optimist
David Yaskulka
Senior VP Corporate Social Responsibility
Stephanie Volo
Chief Impact Officer
Greg Kean
Global VP Advanced Innovation, R&D, and Sustainability
Rebecca Rose
President & Founder
Michael Baker
President & CEO
AdreAnne Tesene
Owner
Chantal Saelen
Co-Owner
Dustin Dover
Chief Operating Officer
Brian Steinwagner
Executive Vice President Business Development
Our Team
The internal team at PSC devotes their time and energy to drive our mission forward by engaging with our community, communicating our goals, ensuring the tools and resources our members need to succeed are of the highest caliber and aiming to change the pet industry for the better through real sustainable change.
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Our Story
A lover of life and an environmentalist at heart, Chris Bentley has spent several decades looking for ways to minimize his environmental footprint. Based in Colorado, Chris is active in the entrepreneurial business community, observing the natural foods movement adopt organic certification and the outdoor industry collaborate to build innovative sustainability tools. With over 25 years of success in the pet products industry, first with Aspen Pet, then Variety Pet, Only Natural Pet and most recently “I and Love and You,” he knew there was an opportunity to drive impact in an industry he had grown to know and love.
Together with fellow sustainable business leader Marty Grosjean at Only Natural Pet, Chris partnered with sustainability icon Hunter Lovins at Natural Capitalism Solutions to develop a suite of sustainability tools that could provide their respective companies the resources they needed to implement sustainable business processes.
The outcome of this project was a world class toolkit built by Natural Capitalism Solutions that had far reaching potential. The new vision for these tools was to serve as a transformative catalyst that would enable the entire pet industry to engage more positively with the environment and communities where they do business.
When complete, Chris, Natural Capitalism Solutions, the Outdoor Industry Association, and 25 business leaders met at Global Pet Expo 2013 where they formed a new nonprofit collaborative that would share tools and resources to encourage adoption of sustainable business practices. KD Frueh at KONG Company, Tony de Vos at Cardinal Pet Care, Jim Thomas at Petco, Spencer Williams at West Paw, Stephanie Volo at Planet Dog, and Aaron Lambstein at Worldwise joined Only Natural Pet and I and Love and You to become Founding Members of the Pet Sustainability Coalition. These 8 Founding Members continued to make large financial contributions for five consecutive years that served as the Coalition’s primary revenue and lifeblood!
Caitlyn Bolton Dudas, PSC’s Executive and CoFounder was a part of the original toolkit team at Natural Capitalism Solutions. With a background in the nonprofit sector, a Master’s degree in Environmental Management and Sustainability and unrelenting passion for sustainable business, Caitlyn has grown PSC from a small grassroots gathering to a deeply credible, financially sustainable, and values led organization.
As a collaborative accelerator, PSC relies heavily on our world renowned partners to educate, inspire, and accelerate our industry on its journey toward sustainability.
B-Corp
B Lab is a nonprofit organization that serves a global movement of people using business as a force for good. B-Corp provides the third party assessment that has helped to unify many industries around a common set of sustainability metrics.
Sterling Consulting
PSC partners with Sterling Consulting to provide members with an experienced and proven expertise in supply chain management.
Sustainable Apparel Coalition
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition is the apparel, footwear and home textile industry’s foremost alliance for sustainable production. PSC members can work with the Sustainable Apparel Coalition to review the environmental impact of their materials collaborate with other hard-goods manufacturers and brands to impact industry wide improvements.
Trayak
PSC partners with Trayak to provide access to the leading streamlined packaging assessment tool. Using COMPASS (Comparative Packaging Assessment), PSC members can analyze individual, primary, secondary, transport packages and entire packaging systems. Baseline and compare alternate design scenarios and make better packaging design decisions that meet corporate sustainability goals.
Watt Global Media
WATT Global Media grows agrifood and pet food businesses with proven results for over 100 years. Access the market expertise, engaged audiences and targeted solutions that lead to successful connections in the poultry, feed and pet food markets. With WATT Global Media, gain a global advantage in implementing dynamic marketing solutions through innovative technology and delivery channels.
PETS International
PETS International, founded in 1988, is the leading international B-to-B platform to inform and inspire pet professionals and their companies located in over 130 different countries. PETS International has been a critical partner in PSC’s expansion to Europe and leverages their platform to drive awareness of critical sustainability topics and case studies.
Envision Solutions
Envision Solutions is a full-service creative and manufacturing company that delivers compelling retail ready merchandisers that sparkle interest and drive sales. Envision partners with PSC to create a highly sustainable and inviting trade show booth that showcases our accredited brands to thousands of retailers around the world.
Allied Printing
Allied printing is a family owned full service printing company fueled by wind and solar energy and a focus on community engagement. Allied printing provides PSC with in-kind printing services that support our events and trade shows.
rePurpose Global
Plastic Offsetting with RePurpose Global. PSC has partnered with rePurpose Global to offer members plastic offsetting. RePurpose Global combines environmental benefit with social justice using plastic credits to employ disadvantaged workers in low-income countries. When you choose plastic credit financing, you help build new waste management infrastructure and supply chains, where there are none. This means collection networks, sorting facilities, and recycling — the whole system. $1,000 = 4,000 pounds, or 22,000 plastic bottles or 275,000 plastic bags from the environment.
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Native Energy
Carbon Offsetting with Native Energy. PSC has partnered with Native Energy, a certified B Corp, to offer PSC members Help Build™ carbon offsets. Since 2000, Native has been helping some of America’s biggest and best-loved companies make their sustainability visions a reality. Help Build carbon offsets are a new, progressive type of carbon offset with a bigger impact than conventional offsets. Typically, when someone buys a carbon offset, the money goes to pay for a reduction in greenhouse gases that has already occurred. This purchase supports an existing project. However, sometimes community-based projects don’t have enough funding to be built in the first place.
The Fehlig Group
The Fehlig Group is a woman-owned management consultancy that helps businesses succeed in applying their values to initiatives for a healthier planet, stronger communities and a more meaningful employee experience. The Fehlig Group provides independent and rigorous verification for PSC’s Accreditation Program.
Closed Loop Partners
Closed Loop Partners is a New York-based investment firm comprised of venture capital, growth equity, private equity, project-based finance, and an innovation center focused on building the circular economy. Investors include many of the world’s largest consumer goods companies and family offices interested in investments that provide strong financial returns and tangible impact.
The Marine Stewardship Council
The Marine Stewardship Council is an international non-profit organization with a mission to protect the ocean and safeguard seafood supplies for the future. PSC members can partner with MSC to ensure their marine ingredients are certified sustainable from a fully verified supply chain. Using the MSC blue fish label, PSC members can also message their sustainability commitments to the consumer.
Ocatra
Ocatra is a global network of independent consultants based in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Ocatra has expertise in responsible sourcing, animal welfare and sentience, sustainable food systems, supply chain management, corporate governance, and stakeholder management. Ocatra supports clients across a range of issues, including the environmental, social, and animal welfare impacts of animal use in the human and pet food, apparel, health, pharmaceutical industries and pet and wildlife trades.
Point B
Point B is a global company that focuses on inspiring and empowering businesses to drive positive impact through solutions that address the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues. Point B’s ESG practice has a range of expertise which includes helping companies baseline their ESG initiatives, develop their ESG goals, KPIs, strategies for implementation, and uncover effective ways to communicate their sustainability efforts – both internally and externally.
Heather Paulsen Consulting and Measure Meant
B Corp Certification is a complex, sometimes overwhelming and always inspiring process. Heather Paulsen Consulting and Measure Meant have teamed up to provide you with comprehensive support for your B Corp goals and broader sustainability strategy. Let us take the overwhelm out of the process and guide you through the assessment, roadmap development, and verification to become a Certified B Corp and build a better business along the way!
