About Creative Citizen


Creative Citizen® is the place for solutions, where people can easily find the ways to save money, live green and be well.

We focus on one action at a time, knowing that many small acts lead to massive results.


Creative Citizen is a global community of people ready and willing to share Creative Solutions for all of our eco-problems, minor and major.


We know that no one citizen can know everything about living responsibly on this planet – our goal is to create an ever-evolving wealth of environmental knowledge and each Creative Citizen is essential to our success.


So, go ahead and submit a Creative Solution and watch your Greenage™ grow or just look around and soak up what you see.


We're always open to suggestions, so email us with your thoughts about how to make your experience as a Creative Citizen more rewarding and effective.


Make sure to follow the Creative Citizen account on Twitter to get updates on Creative Solutions and other news about sustainability. @cr8tivecitizen


For daily news with actionable solutions visit EcoMatters at http://ecomattersdaily.com/


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The Creative Citizen Management Team

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Scott Badenoch
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Scott Badenoch's dedication in this life is clear: to realign our society with nature through business methods & citizen activism. As the CEO of Creative Citizen you may find him speaking at a green conference, biking hard around Los Angeles or editing an EcoMatters article. Whatever he's doing, you can always be sure Scott is working to bring green living to the mainstream.

Watch Scott give a speech about the power of Radical Collaboration.
Watch an interview of Scott on Business Boomer, theGreenGirls, and Melodies in Marketing.
Check out his slides on Radical Collaboration.
Scott on the Radio once, twice, three times.

Scott's Other Activities:
- Green Business Networking - former member of the Board of Directors
- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Los Angeles Chapter -- Charter Member
- Straus Institute of Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University School of Law -- Council of Distinguished Advisors
- EcoDads.org - Advisory Board
- Guest Writer for MNN, TriplePundit, EcoTimes, Intent
- Biking, Hiking, Camping, Soccer

He also gets a kick out of passively collecting maps, stickers and glass jars.

Scott is an active attorney in the state of California and is a member of the California State Bar. Scott earned his Juris Doctorate and Master's degree in Mediation, Negotiation and Arbitration from Pepperdine University. He studied poetry at Northwestern University for his Bachelor's degree.

Argam DerHartunian's Bio Photo

Argam DerHartunian
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Argam is the co-founder and COO of Creative Citizen, managing all operations while assisting in the strategic vision of the company. He spearheads all technology development, marketing, and internal operations of the Creative Citizen portfolio. Argam views the efficient flow of information as a key factor in helping solve our environmental problems.

Argam also manages all partner relations. Most recently, Argam was the mastermind behind the new TerraCycle website and internal technology architecture.

Argam has been featured on numerous blogs and publications including VentureBeat, EcoTimes, and WiserEarth. He has been recognized by UC Berkeley as an alumni helping design green California.

Argam has also been a contributing writer to blogs such as VentureBeat and TriplePundit.

In his spare time, Argam enjoys playing and composing music, writing, cycling, hiking, and exploring things he knows nothing about.

Argam graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Science. Argam received his Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law with a certificate in dispute resolution. Argam is an active attorney in the state of California and is a member of the California State Bar.

Advisory Board

Timothy Donovan

Timothy Donovan
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Day One Energy Solutions LLC

During a 13-year tenure with energy giant BP, Mr. Donovan lead a global information systems implementation and an organizational re-design in two major restructuring initiatives. As the Director of Strategy and Marketing Performance, Mr. Donovan oversaw the global marketing and advertising budget as well as spearheaded landmark programs in the sustainability space including the launch of Helios House, an eco-friendly petrol station in Los Angeles, California. Mr. Donovan then moved his primary focus from the energy sector to the broader sustainability arena through a partnership with world-renowned sustainability expert John Picard. As Managing Partner of John Picard and Associates, he advised some of the world's largest companies on the profitability of a progressive environmental agenda. In 2008, Mr. Donovan helped launch Shangri-La Industries, a diversified firm integrating environmentally conscious development, as Chief Operating Officer. Shangri-La Industries focuses on sustainable construction and innovative green technology to create the next generation of business solutions. In 2009, Mr. Donovan founded Day One Energy Solutions, a project management firm helping Energy Service Companies manage their construction projects in a sustainable manner.

Louis Fox

Louis Fox
Co-Founder and Executive Creative Director, Free Range Studios

Since 1998, Mr. Fox has lead Free Range Studios to become the leading media and communications firm in the social arena. Writing and directing the company's numerous animation and video productions, including the mega-hits “The Meatrix” (themeatrix.com) and “The Story of Stuff” (thestoryofstuff.com), has earned him top honors at film festivals and awards ceremonies around the globe, including South By Southwest, Media That Matters, The Holland animation Festival, The Webby Awards, Resfest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival. A trained filmmaker, Mr. Fox’ innate sense of story and ability to translate important and often difficult messages into entertaining media has motivated millions of web users to take actions that better the world.

Michael Leifer

Michael Leifer
Co-Founder and CEO, influenceXchange

Mr. Leifer, founded and became Executive Director of Erin Brockovitch's Cancer411.org, a non-profit dedicated to helping cancer patients get the information that they need. He also successfully founded and sold C3 Live, a webcasting and syndication company that worked in partnership with Microsoft and Yahoo! producing A-list celebrity-laden events with spirit and energy drink sponsors. In 2000, Leifer founded guerilla PR, an anthropologically-based integrated marketing and communication company that worked with Coca-Cola, Red Bull, Snapple, Jim Beam Worldwide, Nestle, Sony, Capital One and many others. In 2007, guerilla PR won the Ad-Tech Best Social Media Marketing Award and was acquired by Swirl Advertising. His book "Social Currency" will be released early next year.

Greg Wendt

Greg Wendt
Principal, Enright Premier Wealth Advisors

With over 16 years of experience in financial services, Mr. Wendt is one of the top Socially Responsible Investment advisors in the country. He is frequently profiled as an expert in the media including "Living with Ed" Television Show on Home and Garden Television, 2005/2006 issue of Business Ethics magazine, Daily Variety (Entertainment Industry Publication), Financial Planning Magazine and Yogi Times. Mr. Wendt is also the founder of Green Business Networking and the Los Angeles chapter of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), with a total membership of over 2,000 green business owners and executives.

Erika Rand

Erika Rand
Filmmaker, Producer, Art Director

Ms. Rand is currently producing a feature film which gives voice to Tibetan activists and highlights the Tibetan Plateau environmental crisis. She recently directed a Climate Change film with the Alliance for Climate Education and served as a film curator for TED.com's Pangea Day. She was a camera operator on feature films "American Cannibal," and "Say My Name" on women in hip hop. Rand was awarded “Best Cinematography” for her first 16mm short “Pigeon Spirit” from panel judges including Albert Maysles (who Jean-Luc Godard considered “the best American cameraman”) and Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). Her clients include: Deepak Chopra and Oscar Arias’ Alliance for a New Humanity, Color of Change, Elie Wiesel, Harmony Festival, McCann Erickson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MTV, Participant Productions, Pushpin Group, Rounder Records, St. Martin’s Press, Slava’s SnowShow, Video the Vote and Women’s Earth Alliance. She co-founded Evolver Magazine and evo.com.

Scott Mattoon

Scott Mattoon
Principal Technologist, Sun Microsystems

Mr. Mattoon serves on the Board of Directors of Architecture for Humanity, sponsor of the Open Architecture Network. He is an active advocate for open source and sustainable business. He seeks to apply the principles of transparency, collaboration and sharing in his work as Chief Architect for Sun Microsystems' Western U.S. Market. A student of sustainability, Scott tries to stitch ecological impact awareness, energy analysis, and long term thinking into everything he does. In addition to his time at Sun, Scott's career has spanned several leadership positions with companies helping to shape business and society on the Internet including 4charity.com, Live365.com, Cybersource, and NeXT.

Dan Bishop

Dan Bishop
VP and General Counsel, Clipper Windpower

Mr. Bishop has served as an executive and General Counsel for UNOVA, Inc., an industrial technologies company, Paxar Corporation, which provides merchandising systems for the retail and apparel manufacturing industries, both NYSE-listed companies, as well as Monarch Marking Systems, Inc., Western Atlas, and Litton Industries, He is on the Board of Governors for the Institute for Corporate Counsel. He was previously the Chair of the Corporate Law Departments Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and on its Board of Trustees. Mr. Bishop is on the Board of Directors of Amphastar, Inc, a pharmaceutical company.


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