Blake Olson | Macalester College

Blake Olson is the Waste Reduction and Reuse Coordinator at the Macalester College Sustainability Office. He implements and manages projects such as the move-out donation program, campus free store, reusable to-go container system, and a digital surplus furniture catalogue. Blake served as a Minnesota GreenCorps member at Macalester for two years prior to his current position, learning the ins and outs of campus waste streams and gaining an appreciation for all things reuse. Blake earned a BA in Environmental Studies from St. Olaf College in Minnesota with an emphasis in Environmental Humanities. His humanities background continues to motivate his work, where he uses waste and reuse as lenses to understand humanity’s relationship to the non-human world.