Pam Marrone Recognized for Leadership & Innovation by NRDC

 

Named 2011 Business Leader winner, Marrone has launched three successful companies that develop bio-based alternatives. Her current, rapidly growing company, Marrone Bio Innovations, discovers, develops and markets effective products based on naturally occurring materials like plants and microorganisms that help growers control pests, improve yields, and reduce risks to human health and the environment.      

 

“At Marrone Bio Innovations, we are providing the market with effective, sustainable and safe plant protection products with no sacrifice to yield, quality or economics,” said Marrone. “I’m proud to be recognized by NRDC, and appreciate this opportunity to spread the word about the benefits of biopesticides to plants, people and the environment.”

 

“Our Growing Green Awards recognize extraordinary contributions that advance ecologically integrated farming practices, climate stewardship, water stewardship, farmland preservation, and social responsibility from farm to fork,” said Jonathan Kaplan, Senior Policy Specialist at NRDC. “Pam Marrone exemplifies the leadership and innovation needed to make such important contributions.”  

 

Pam Marrone was selected from hundreds of nominees by the 2011 Growing Green Awards panel of judges, which included Michael Pollan, New York Times best-selling author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Maria Rodale, Chairman and CEO of Rodale Inc., Dan Barber, executive chef and co-owner of Blue Hill Restaurant in New York, and Dr. Tom Tomich, Director of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at the University of California, Davis.

 

The winners will be honored at NRDC’s 2011 Growing Green Awards gala in San Francisco on April 28.