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June 2010

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Rick Alfandre, AIA

Rick Alfandre, AIA, President of Alfandre Architecture, PC, is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accredited Professional (LEED AP), who has been specializing in environmentally responsive planning, solar design and energy and resource efficient building techniques for over 29 years. Rick is a Board member and Treasurer of the US Green Buildings Council New York Upstate Chapter and is a founding member of the Hudson Valley Branch. Rick is National Council of Architectural Registrations Boards (NCARB) certified, and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Other affiliations include: the US Green Buildings Council (USGBC), Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA), New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA), New York Solar Energy Society (NYSES). Sustainable Hudson Valley (SHV), and the Solar Energy Consortium (TSEC). View Guest page

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Kevin Connors

Kevin Connors is Principal of eco_logic STUDIO, a design firm dedicated to ecological architecture, engineering and planning, and a USGBC member. The firm specializes in affordable green housing, urban design, green development consulting, and high-performance residential, commercial and institutional building design. Kevin is both an engineer and an architect and taught design and sustainable architecture in the Department of Architecture at SUNY Bufallo from 1998 to 2008. His design/build students created the first permitted strawbale building in the City of Buffalo – a greenhouse at the Massachusetts Avenue Project, a holistic non-profit urban farming organization. eco_logic STUDIO has designed green affordable housing for abandoned buildings on the west side of Buffalo for another progressive non-profit corporation – PUSH Buffalo (People United for Sustainable Housing). He has been Consulting Architect for the Natural Building Colloquium – East in Bath, NY since 2004. View Guest page

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Barbara Harmony

Barbara Harmony (http://www.ipa.net/~peace) has been an activist and organizer for 50 years. She began her water work in 1979, organizing concerned citizens to address environmental problems in the Leatherwood Creek Watershed and co-founding the National Water Center (http://www.nationalwatercenter.org). She has been involved in local, state, national, and international activities to encourage interest in clean water. As coordinator for the Water Committee of the Bioregional Movement she began thanking the water in 1991, and in 1999 began linking like-minded people through the website http://www.planetaryhealer.net. Barbara received the 2004 Arkansas Watershed Advisory Group Clean Water Stronger Communities Award and helped produce the Water Center Publications “We All Live Downstream” and “Aquaterra Meta Ecology and Culture”. View Guest page

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Dr. Elizabeth Hausler

Dr. Elizabeth Hausler, Build Change Founder and CEO, is a 2004 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2006 Draper Richards fellow, a 2009 Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow, and was a Fulbright Scholar to India during 2002-2003. Dr. Hausler has a Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a skilled brick, block and stone mason and has lectured on sustainable, disaster-resistant construction in eight countries. On 10 March 2006, Dr.Hausler was featured by the US-based evening news program abcNEWS World News Tonight as Person of the Week for her work rebuilding houses in Aceh, Indonesia. Build Change is a 2008 Tech Awards Laureate and winner of the Katherine M. Swanson Equality Cash Prize for making culturally appropriate, earthquake-resistant housing solutions available to all homeowners, regardless of income level. Build Change’s house design for Aceh won a 2006 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award from the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California. View Guest page

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Claudia Jacobs

Interior decorator and stager Claudia Jacobs, of Claudia Jacobs Designs LLC (http://claudiajacobsdesigns.com), is committed to providing personalized service tailored to each client’s unique needs. Whether decorating or staging to sell, her main objective is offering an economical alternative to traditional interior design. Claudia is an Interior Redesign Industry Specialist (IRIS), studied interior design at Berkeley College, and received her professional certification from The School of Interior Redesign in Connecticut. Claudia is also an Accredited Staging Professional (ASP). She is a member of the Real Estate Staging Association, stagedhomes.com, Interior Redesign Industry Specialist, Orange County Assoc of Realtors, Goshen Chamber of Commerce, Orange County chamber of commerce, and the Women’s Council of Realtors (secretary of the board of directors). Claudia writes the weekly “Claudia’s Corner” column for The Times Herald Record every Sunday in The Record’s Sunday Living section. View Guest page

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Marvin Klein

Marvin Klein is the founder of PortionPac Chemical Corporation, headquartered in Chicago. In 1964, PortionPac pioneered high concentrate detergent formulations, portion control packaging and environmentally sustainable programs. Dozens of concepts from safer chemicals to color coded products and formal custodial education were introduced to the cleaning industry through PortionPac. His goal has been to improve the effectiveness of cleaning while reducing environmental impact. Before starting PortionPac he worked for Ekco Products Company, Hild Floor Machine Company, and served as an Army Intelligence Officer. Marvin has worked in the janitorial, food service and corrections industry to improve professionalism, safety, and recognition for cleaning workers. He is proud of his work on many boards including the Child Nutrition Association and currently is on the board of the Healthy Schools Campaign, the Chicago Manufacturing Center and the John Howard Association for Prisoner Rights. View Guest page

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L. Hunter Lovins

L. Hunter Lovins is President and founder of Natural Capitalism Solutions a 501(c)3 non-profit in Longmont, Colorado. Lovins has consulted for dozens of companies globally, including the International Finance Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell, Interface, and Wal-Mart. Governmental clients include the Pentagon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy and other agencies, numerous cities, and the governments of Jamaica, Australia, and Afghanistan. Recipient of such honors as the Sustainability Pioneer, Right Livelihood Award and Lindbergh Award, she was named Time Magazine 2000 Hero for the Planet. She has co-authored 12 books and hundreds of papers, including the 1999 book, Natural Capitalism, 2006 Climate Protection Manual for Cities, 2009 Solutions at the Speed of Business and Transforming Industry in Asia, as well as the upcoming book Climate Capitalism with Boyd Cohen. She is also a founding Professor of Sustainable Business at Presidio Graduate School. View Guest page

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Kevin Rowell

Kevin Rowell was born in Michigan and moved to California in 1997 to study Zen Buddhism and organic farming at Green Gulch Farm. He has worked in the field of urban agriculture installing gardens for the San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG), Strybing Arboretum and school gardens around the Bay Area. After receiving lay ordination, he devoted himself to the study of sustainability and the human created world, and has since worked extensively in green building, natural building, international development and large scale art installations. Kevin has worked extensively in South East Asia initiating and supporting projects in Laos, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia focusing on the building of schools, cultural centers, seed banks and libraries. Kevin is based out of El Cerrito California where he lives on a half acre organic farm. In addition he runs a design/build contracting firm: The Natural Builders (www.thenaturalbuilders.com). View Guest page

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Sarah Susanka, FAIA

Sarah Susanka, FAIA, is the author of nine books that collectively weave together home and life design, revealing that a “Not So Big” attitude serves not only architectural aims, but life goals as well. Her books have sold more than one million copies and include The Not So Big House series, Home by Design and The Not So Big Life. Susanka is regularly tapped for her insights by USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, public radio, CNN and HGTV. Fast Company named Susanka to their debut list of “Fast 50” innovators whose achievements have helped change society. Newsweek selected her as a “top newsmaker” for 2000, and U.S. News and World Report dubbed her an “innovator in American culture” in 1998. Susanka was presented with the 2007 Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award by the Lindbergh Foundation for outstanding individual achievement in making positive contributions to our world. She is a member of the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows and a Design Futures Council Senior Fellow. Join her online community at www.NotSoBig.com. *Sarah's picture was taken and provided by Cheryl Muhr* View Guest page

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Karen Wan

Karen Wan is the Director of Sustaining Stories (www.sustainingstories.com), a consulting firm devoted to helping companies and individuals find their sustaining story to bring them into alignment with critical global needs. She was the Director of Sustainability for the Chicago Manufacturing Center (CMC) from 2004 through 2008. During that time, she also served as the Program Director for the City of Chicago’s Waste to Profit Network from 2006-2008, which she helped to create with the City of Chicago and the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development. The Waste to Profit Network received the Chicago GreenWorks award in 2007 and the Innovator of the Year award from the national Manufacturing Extension Partnership in 2008, and is considered the most successful by-product synergy network in the United States. Karen has been a featured speaker at green manufacturing and sustainability conferences, appeared on Chicago television shows, and on National Public Radio. View Guest page

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Catherine Wanek

Catherine Wanek is the author/photographer of the just released book, The Hybrid House, from Gibbs Smith, Publisher. She also wrote and photographed The New Straw Bale Home and co-edited The Art of Natural Building. For five years she published and edited The Last Straw, the International Journal of Straw Bale and Natural Building. She has also contributed articles and photographs to Su Casa Magazine, Communities, Permaculture Activist, Home Power, Mother Earth News and The New York Times. Catherine has also lectured internationally on the subject of straw-bale and natural building. In 1999, she helped found Builders Without Borders (www.builderswithoutborders.org), a network of ecological builders dedicated to providing design/build education and hands-on help, to people and communities desiring to build affordable homes. In 2008, Catherine led a Builders Without Borders team to construct a straw-bale eco-house for an exhibition at the U.S. Botanic Garden on the National Mall in Washington D.C. View Guest page

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Janus Welton

Janus Welton, President of EcoArchitecture DesignWorks, PC, combines Sustainability, Building Biology, Classical Chinese F.S. Building Patterns, Bio-Geometry, and Biomimicry in her long career in Architecture, Interior Design, and Planning. She holds a B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, M. Arch in Architecture from the University of Colorado at Denver, Certification in Building Biology and Environmental Consulting from The International Institute of Building Biology ™ and Ecology, NASBAP Certification in Sustainable Building Advising, and is a USGBC Certified LEED, AP. She recently participated in the Veracruz, Mexico Biomimicry Design Workshop sponsored by the Institute of Biomimicry and the Universidad Iberoamericana. Previously Ms. Welton was a Senior Designer at The Vito Cetta-Randy Washington Group Architects and Planners in Santa Monica, CA, a Senior Designer for Walt Disney Imagineering, and Director of Concept Architecture for Sony Development in Los Angeles. View Guest page

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Rejuvenate Your Space!

April 20, 2010
Hosted by Dr. Lisa Wipplinger

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Our homes provide the basic need of shelter. They also have the potential to nurture our spirits for our optimal health and happiness. Now that the weather is warm and the days are longer, it is a great time to give our living spaces some attention. Our grandmothers and great grandmothers traditionally called this clearing and airing out process “spring cleaning.” We can take the practice a few steps further by sprucing up our rooms with a new look or some fresh paint and make our homes “greener” and healthier in the process. On this show we will discuss some simple ways to welcome spring, green and rejuvenate your space with interior decorator and stager Claudia Jacobs, of Claudia Jacobs Designs LLC (http://claudiajacobsdesigns.com).

Savvy Structures and Sustainable Living

Tuesday at 7 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Green Living Channel

Our show aims to educate and inspire, while providing practical advice about building sustainable communities. Experts in a wide variety of fields ranging from architecture to water resources to community building will be interviewed on the show, offering their insights and advice for sustainable projects of all sizes. We will explore how to improve our own quality of life while living more in harmony with our surroundings. Through this program we will provide a practical guide to living better, present options suited to different living situations, and hopefully inspire you to implement the ideas that resonate within you. Expanding our knowledge as a community will increase our momentum toward living more fulfilling lives as we engineer our sustainable future. Savvy Structures and Sustainable Living is broadcast live every Tuesday at 7 AM Pacific Time on The VoiceAmerica Green Living Channel.

Dr. Lisa Wipplinger

Dr. Lisa Wipplinger is a registered professional engineer, registered structural engineer, board certified by the Structural Engineers Council, and a US Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional with over twenty years of experience in the building industry. She is the founder and President of Savvy Structures Inc. and Savvy Structures Engineering PC. Dr. Wipplinger’s mission is engineering a sustainable future through innovative, people-focused sustainable building design and education. She shares a wealth of knowledge from her varied experience as a design engineer and award-winning college professor. She has designed structures in the US, Middle East and Asia, and taught engineering at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point and Kansas State University. Dr. Wipplinger is currently a member of a number of professional organizations including the American Society of Civil Engineers, Structural Engineering Institute, Architectural Engineering Institute, Society of Women Engineers, Engineers without Borders, Engineers for a Sustainable World, International Code Council, US Green Building Council, Builder’s Association of the Hudson Valley, Natural Building Network, National Women’s In Network, Business Network International, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Dr. Wipplinger brings together creativity and technology to move toward a new sustainable future.

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