Lewis Perkins
Sustainable Strategist
New House, LLC  

A long-time advocate for “doing the right thing,” Lewis Perkins is a champion for sustainability – personally and professionally. Perkins works with companies both big and small on creating a programs and awareness for environmental and social initiatives.  Over the past several years, Perkins led the "green" charge as director of sustainable strategies for "The Mohawk Group, a leading carpet manufacturer and commercial division of Mohawk Industries, Perkins draws on this passion to help advance the company’s mission of environmental and social responsibility. Coupling strong leadership skills with his fervent commitment to ensuring a positive future for the world around us, he helps drive awareness for the importance of sustainable design through strategic marketing communications for all of his customers through partnerships with philanthropic organizations such as Global Green USA and the US Green Building Council.

Prior to his current consulting projects, he served with The Clean Air Campaign. Perkins holds a Master of Business Administration in marketing and strategy with a focus on social responsibility from Emory University and a Bachelor of Arts from Washington & Lee University.

Perkins has been active with various foundations including GOAL, an organization committed to promoting self-esteem, self-awareness and respect for individual differences in girls and young women, Men Stopping Violence,  and The Captain Planet Foundation. He has also been named to the advisory board for Sustainable Life Media where he joins an assembly of thought leaders.

In 2009, Perkins was honored as one of three speakers in Forbes Magazine Green Visionary Series.   He was also named as Man of the Year by Chayil Inc., an organization which works with women leaving domestic violence situations.

You can follow his corporate sustainability insight on his Fastcompany.com blog "Semantics of Sustainability."

And his Mother always reminds him to mention that he is an Eagle Scout!