Career Narrative

        Stan Slaughter has a long history as an effective and inspiring educator. His parents and grandparents were college graduates in agriculture and home economics. Stan attended college on basketball scholarship starting a Southern Methodist University in Dallas and graduating from Rockhurst College in Kansas City. He holds a master’s degree in Biology from University of Missouri-Kansas City.
        He first taught science in Junior High in the Kansas City area and in 1976 was honored as KC area Science teacher of the Year. After leaving teaching in 1980, Stan worked as the lead instructor for Midland Energy Institute, a contractor for the Carter Administration’s Solar and Energy Conservation programs. He founded Slaughter Energy Enterprises in 1982 providing solar and energy conservation products and services to the Kansas City area. In 1987 He co-founded the Heartland All Species Project, an environmental education non-profit organization. Heartland organized Kansas City’s Earth Day celebrations for 8 years and produced some of the most innovative festivals and programs in the US. While at Heartland Stan started The Composter’s Project which provided compost education programs for Kansas City, but later took him to many states. In 1991, he was funded by the Hallmark Foundation, The City of Kansas City and KCP&L to build a traveling trailer and take his compost education show on the road. This began Stan’s life as a traveling environmental educator.
        It has been Stan’s ability to entertain and educate children that has been at the heart of his success. His assemblies on reducing waste have taken him to 25 states and more than 500,000 students and adults. He’s appeared at state fairs, museums, libraries, conferences and workshops, delivering many types of programs including keynote speeches. His major sponsors, however, have been solid waste agencies for cities, counties and states. In ’93-’94 Stan wrote and administered grants from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and the Mid-America Regional Council Solid Waste District. He had worked in Kansas at several venues when he wrote a grant application to KDHE in 1997. Although the grant was not funded, KDHE offered him a contract to provide programs statewide. In the eight years since, he’s performed at more than 500 schools for more than 75,000 students.
        He has always been an innovative educator and Stan wrote songs, skits and plays to accompany his programs. His cassette album In Tune with All Species was released in 1989, followed by the Rot N’ Roll cassette (on Composting and Recycling) in 1993, Unintended Consequences CD (on household hazardous waste) in 1998 and The Eco-Troubadour CD in 2002. In 2005 He released his revised multi-media CD of Rot N’ Roll. This year has brought an extensively revised CD of In Tune with All Species, My Green Dream, a revised version of the EcoTroubadour CD and a new all-water song CD titled Water All over the World. In addition he has developed songbooks for the albums, a recycling learning guide, a compost learning guide, coloring book, poster and a card game called Compost Gin. He maintains a multi-media web site <www.stanslaughter.com>, offering streaming audio and video, and compost tutorials.
        He’s been honored by a wide variety of organizations for his work. In 1993 Missouri Waste Control Coalition awarded Stan its outstanding educator award. In ’95 the US EPA Region VII picked Stan as its first recipient of the Missouri Environmental Educator of the Year award. Governor Graves gave Stan a similar award in 1997 and in 2000 the U. S. Compost Council Awarded Stan its Clark Gregory Award for outstanding compost education nationally. In 2005 the Mid-America Regional Council Solid Waste District named Stan its Environmental Educator of the Year for his work in the 5 county region around Kansas City. In the spring of 2006 Kansas inducted him into the Solid Waste Hall of Fame for his efforts in educating Kansas children.
        Stan truly enjoys his work. He says he’s professional driver, logging an average of over 30,000 miles a year, who gets to have fun with kids when he stops. As the Eco-Troubadour he’s become known across the nation and enjoys the feeling of having helped educate our youth. He lives in Lee’s Summit, Missouri and was recently engaged to be married to Linda Chubbuck, a music educator he met while on the road in Kansas in 2004. He has one son, Joshua Aaron Slaughter and two grandsons.

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