Tyler Thompson Bio

Tyler Thompson

Co-Founder, The Environmental Solutions Store (TESS), Organizer, Atlanta Green Market Fair

Atlanta

Tyler is a practitioner of grassroots consumer activism focused on advancing market-based solutions to environmental problems. He is the son of environmental business writer, John Thompson who published The Environmental Entrepreneur: Where to find the profit in saving the Earth in 1992. Tyler's career includes work in public, private and civil society sectors. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RSVP), with 27 months of service in Albania (2013-15). In 2019 he quit his corporate job at Delta Air Lines to bicycle 7,000 miles across North America from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Key West, Florida. His work now centers around the idea of building a green-consumer movement, starting here in his hometown of Atlanta, GA. Up first--a kickoff event to celebrate the city's leading green-businesses this Earth Day weekend at the Atlanta Green Market Fair.

Tyler Thompson

Upcoming Courses

Previously (1)

Marketing

Principles of Consumer-Driven, Market-Based Environmental Problem-Solving

This presentation explores how critical elements of collectivist action can be brought to life through the power of consumer choice as a driver of market-based solutions

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