Chemistry was Marsha Gorden’s favorite academic subject and she brought this enthusiasm into the evolving field of environmental science and technology. During a year-long worldwide teaching trip Marsha and Morton Gorden saw environmental degradation encroaching on many natural vistas. They created Development Sciences Inc. as a vehicle for solving these problems.

In the early 1970s, Ms Gorden steered DSI towards industrial pollution prevention through the design and development of an industrial Ecosystem of Machines Information System (EMIS). Funded by a National Science Foundation grant, the computerized system identified pollutant reuse, recovery, shared treatment and disposal options through their chemical and physical properties. She also instituted pollution control programs and technology demonstrations in several southeastern Massachusetts communities

Continuing to work for both government and private clients, Ms. Gorden and the DSI staff developed the first industrial Environmental Impact Assessment tool for the World Bank. It became their general environmental guideline illustrating potential pollution and land use issues arising from major international businesses. She then helped develop an Intermedia Pollutant Transfer model for the US Environmental Protection Agency that demonstrated the problems of transferring pollutants and presented several safe transport technologies.

In over two-dozen DSI international projects Ms. Gorden organized new liaisons between US and foreign companies and institutions, expanding business opportunities in energy conservation, material reuse and alternate energy technologies. She became a renewable energy and conservation program manager and trainer for developing countries, working on projects in Africa, Central America and Asia. Back in America, Ms. Gorden joined the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and redirected the Industrial, Commercial & Institutional (ICI) Water Conservation Program to include public-private partnerships and workshops for greater water efficiency at more than a thousand Massachusetts sites.

Today, Ms. Gorden applies her local New England and international environmental and energy experience to the field of sustainable development as the founder and principal of The Resource Technologies Group.