Sustainable Designer/Educator/Activist/Entrepreneur founder of Anthropocene.Design NGO and LLC and co-founder of CircularEconomyMfg.com. Barent's career has been dedicated to designing, and now manufacturing, sustainable products and services for the circular economy in an effort to drawdown greenhouse gas emissions and repair ecosystems.
Previously he was the co-founder of the award winning sustainable to restorative design firm grow-design, creator of the LA Green Drinks network, and former Executive Director of SustainableWorks.org.
His BikeShare Helmet won a Cradle to Cradle Design Competition for Best Professional Design and he founded TestingOurWaters.net, a global design collaboration aggregating DIY Trawls, empowering citizen scientists to track and together prevent local marine pollution. Most recently Anthropocene.Design was selected as a winner of the NYC Curb to Market Challenge to design products from New York City’s waste.