{"id":38703,"date":"2021-04-12T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/?p=38703"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:40:05","slug":"congratulations-to-allen-doyle-our-2021-out-of-the-box-medal-recipient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/the-beaker-blog\/congratulations-to-allen-doyle-our-2021-out-of-the-box-medal-recipient\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Allen Doyle – Our 2021 \u201cOut of the Box\u201d Medal Recipient!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n\n \n

During My Green Lab\u2019s 2021 Virtual Summit, we were proud to present our first annual \u201cOut of the Box\u201d Medal to Allen Doyle, Safety and Sustainability Specialist at 3Flow and former Green Laboratories and Green Procurement Program Manager at UC Davis.<\/p>\n

The \u201cOut of the Box\u201d Medal was inspired by My Green Lab\u2019s visionary and courageous founder, Allison Paradise. Allison, CEO James Connelly, and the My Green Lab team and board spent the past few months thinking about this award and discussing how to best capture the power and essence of the philosophy behind My Green Lab that resonates and influences so many people around the world in such a powerful way. The \u201cOut of the Box\u201d Medal captures the spirit of innovation, a willingness to challenge convention to make better choices for the environment and for the people that underpin our work. Allen Doyle is an original and courageous thinker who is willing to break the mold, push boundaries, defy convention, and in the process redefine an industry, and his work has inspired many to make better choices for the environment, using the power of community to create lasting change.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the words of Margaret Mead, \u2018Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.\u2019 Allen’s leadership has sparked a movement that now has a global impact, with over 500 green labs, inspired and certified by My Green Lab. Allen\u2019s leadership shows how a courageous leader thinking out of the box can change the world,\u201d says My Green Lab CEO James Connelly.<\/p>\n

To announce the \u201cOut of the Box\u201d medal at the end of our 2021 Summit, Allison shared her experience working with and being continually inspired by Allen. She noted that to get out of a box, you have to be aware that you\u2019re in a box in the first place. Only then can you break the limiting habits and routines that created the box you\u2019re in. In this process, it\u2019s helpful to have someone outside who can inspire us to question our situation, to see things differently. This is what My Green Lab does for scientists, providing an alternative vision for what sustainable science can look like. Allen Doyle has spent his career recognizing the \u2018science as usual\u2019 box and utilizing creativity, innovation, and community to see things differently.<\/p>\n

\u201cAllen has touched and influenced everything in the green labs movement since the beginning. He\u2019s not just a free thinker, he’s a free thinker who gives his thoughts freely. Allen is the person who has inspired all of us to get out of our \u2018science as usual\u2019 box. He has also inspired us to get out of the \u2018this idea is mine\u2019 box. Being out of this box and the free flow sharing of ideas is what makes this community so powerful. And that started with Allen,\u201d said Allison.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s unique perspective allowed him to create and inspire many green lab programs, including a variety that My Green Lab utilizes today. He started one of the first green lab programs in the world at UC Santa Barbara called LabRATS, not only developing the program but taking the time to mentor many on how to work through successes and challenges together. Allen also helped My Green Lab develop the\u00a0CEEL, and he and colleague Kathy Ramiriz-Aguilar developed the\u00a0Freezer Challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t sing or play an instrument; yet I\u2019m blessed to have green labs practices and conservation ideas as my music. It\u2019s great to \u201cjam\u201d with other practitioners, sharing each other\u2019s rhythms and riffs. Having us each focus on particular issues means we advance as a field. Do one thing really well, then share it so it becomes the norm. That\u2019s the power of community,\u201d says Allen.<\/p>\n

Allen\u2019s remarks during the Summit crystallized the many reasons he was this year\u2019s award recipient. Focusing on \u201cAttitude and Gratitude,\u201d he spoke to Summit participants about the lessons he\u2019s learned using his scientific training to understand people and technology and the gratitude he has felt along the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are interdependent in so many ways, and we have to count on each other. That\u2019s why I\u2019ve always been delighted to share ideas. I believe in empowerment and the idea of giving people the abilities, tools, and information they need to go out and succeed in conserving,\u201d continues Allen.<\/p>\n

For those who are new to green labs, Allen notes that one should keep thinking out of the box with their own colleagues and use technologies and learned skills to solve problems and build coalitions. He believes in understanding his own biases and blind spots, then working to understand and consider others\u2019. He also learns from colleagues\u2019 disciplines, and knows that people want to relate, that each of our stories, values, and families are important in creating work that matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter all the time Allen spent working in labs, he had somehow not fallen into the habit of being on autopilot; he still\u00a0saw the lab. He was able to identify opportunities for energy reduction in lab equipment, he was able to see opportunities to reduce water and waste and opportunities to introduce green chemistry because he was so aware,\u201d continues Allison. \u201cHe got out of that \u2018science as usual\u2019 box, and he inspired a generation of scientists to want to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/sc-rich-text>\n <\/sc-intro>\n<\/sc-container>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39178,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Congratulations to Allen Doyle - Our 2021 \u201cOut of the Box\u201d Medal Recipient!","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"category":[24],"topics":[],"programs":[104],"lab_types":[],"class_list":["post-38703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","programs-mgl-summit"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39179,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38703\/revisions\/39179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=38703"},{"taxonomy":"lab_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygreenlab.org\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lab_types?post=38703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}