Memo27+Describing+People,+To+Make+an+Analytic+Point--sferguson

**MEMO27 Describing People., to Make an Analytic Point**
This memo should include a 200-400-word description of a person that you have or may encounter, during your research, leveraging the description for analytic insight. In other words: make the description speak to a social theoretical question or point. You can fabricate the person described if you haven’t yet had relevant field encounters. For an example, see my“Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law.”Professor Eugene S. Stevens has been interested in biobased products for the last decade. At Binghampton University in New York he is an active scientist working on new biobased product types and modifying characteristics of existing materials. He has also written extensively on the "greenness" of biopolymers and the required criteria for successfully greening biopolymers. I use his perspective as an individual with both an interest in the science, industry success, and potential sustainability of this class of technology. At the same time he seems to lack a perspective, at least in his written work, on the public policy mechanisms and infrastructure support needed for bioplastics to be successful. Neither does Professor Stevens indicate an interest in consumer culture as it relates to green plastics. As a powerful figure in the bioplastic network he has the capability of directing discourse toward a particular path, but his situatedness seems to limit the potential future pathways of his work and his advocacy.