Starbucks Global Sustainability with John Harrison

<h3><strong>Announcement</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Starting on January 1, 2019, GBMS will begin rolling out it’s new membership community.  Members will be given access to some of the guests on the podcasts that you can ask project questions to, if you are preparing for an exam there will be more insurances that you will pass your next exam, you will be given cliff notes if you are a member and so much more.</span></p> <p><strong>John Harrison</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is the store development services manager for the innovation & sustainability support group at Starbucks Coffee Company. He is a licensed architect and LEED Fellow with over 25 years of diverse experience in private practice, and as an owner/owner's representative. As a part of the company's high performance building team, he co-authored the Starbucks LEED for Retail Volume Build Program and leads the execution team responsible for sustainable strategies and LEED certifications. To date, the program has certified 1,615 CI and NC projects in 20 countries/US territories across the globe including stores in Europe, the UK, North America, South America and Asia. In addition to leading the programs global development, he has worked with directly with teams in China, the U.S., Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Korea, Singapore and Thailand to certify Starbucks stores. Before joining Starbucks, John spent 13 years at Mithun, Inc. in Seattle working with a variety of retail, commercial and institutional clients including: REI, Seattle Coffee Company, Precor, Mirival and the IslandWood Environmental Learning Center.</span></p> <h3><strong>John Harrison- Love for Drawing Led to Architecture</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">John grew up in a small town in southeast Idaho in a farming community.  John was the first person in his family to graduate from a university. Finding that he loved to draw, he went to the University of Idaho to become an architect.  John moved to Seattle in the spring of 1990 and has b