 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
||||||||
| Speaker Bios |
||
| Jeff Bricmont | David Borland Brown | William M. Brown | Patrick Conlon | Susan B. Davison Ron R. Dougal | David Jacot | Robin Kobaly | Michelle Kou | Cynthia J. Kurtz | Susan Longville Alan Locke | Bonnie Montoya May | Robert Noble | Walter Scott Perry | Doug Poffinbarger Bill Powers | William H. Roley | Jim Sullivan | Tracy A. Stone | Stephanie Weigel | Martin Yoklic |
||
 |
Founder, Chairman, CEO Mr. Noble, as an environmental designer, architect, industrial designer and environmental technology entrepreneur, has been the recipient of numerous regional and national awards for his industrial and architectural designs, technology innovations, and business development activities. During his six year tenure as Partner and CEO of Tucker Sadler Architects of San Diego, the size and revenues of the firm quadrupled, and Tucker Sadler became a regional leader in sustainable design and advocacy. During his career, he has led project and technology collaborations with numerous major U.S. companies and international partners in Japan, Sweden and Taiwan. Mr Noble's technology development, industrial design and architectural experience spans a full spectrum of project types, including master planning, residential, theatrical, commercial, retail, industrial, high-rise and mid-rise office buildings, manufactured housing, health-care, sustainable materials, sustainable design and renewable energy projects. Mr. Noble has received numerous awards for his work including:
|
 |
William M. (Bill) Brown was an earth scientist with the U.S. Department of the Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey for 36 years. He retired with his wife Lisa to the high desert community of Taos, New Mexico in 2003. He is an expert in energy science, policy and economics surrounding climate change and sustainability. He currently works with U.S. Senate and House members, and more than 400 private, government and non-profit organizations throughout the American West. Bill was one of 1000 people worldwide selected by Al Gore and The Climate Project in late 2006 to learn and present lectures on global warming and the climate crisis. His itinerary for 2007-2008 includes presentations to audiences across the American Southwest, and special programs targeted for state, local and federal government officials. Bill is a 1962 graduate of Twentynine Palms High School. He also has engineering degrees from the University of New Mexico and Stanford University. In addition to his work with The Climate Project, he is a principal with Sage West Consultants of Taos, New Mexico where his team is currently preparing a Sustainable Building Ordinance for the Town. Since his first public speeches at Twentynine Palms High School more than 45 years ago, Bill has delivered more than 200 formal presentations throughout the USA and in seven foreign countries. As an environmental earth scientist, Bill sees the issues of climate modified by humans as critical to the future of our societies. While sharing his great affection for our planet and its care, he advocates clean energy solutions and policies that cost-effectively reduce the impacts of global warming. He shares with us a profound optimism about the many solutions to environmental, social and economic problems surrounding our planet’s future. |
|
 |
Doug Poffinbarger is President of PEConsulting, Inc. Doug is a 25 year veteran in the energy and utility business with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, several AEE certifications, a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional and a licensed general contractor. He is an industry leader in energy and resource efficient sustainable green design. Doug has developed and managed more than $160 million of energy efficiency, demand response and renewable energy retrofit projects for various types of commercial, industrial and institutional customers. He has also developed various software products for energy and water analysis in residential, multi-family and commercial buildings. He likes to help customers solve their energy problems, save money and leave a lighter footprint. Currently, Doug resides on several energy steering committees for large corporations. He also serves as President of the non-profit Los Angeles Power Association and is past President of the Association of Energy Engineers in Southern California. |
|
William H. Roley, Ph.D. Dr. Bill Roley is an applied ecologist, environmental instructor and consultant. He combines the disciplines of anthropology, biology, architecture, engineering, agriculture, and ecology to address modern challenges of providing for human needs while maintaining ecosystem health. His teaching and design work at the John Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at California Polytechnic University is a graphic example of this interdisciplinary work. He heads up the Ecological Restoration certificate program at Saddleback College and teaches biology at Soka University. His Southern California government consultation includes creating a healthy watershed series for the County of Orange, a landscape and composting ordinance for Irvine, developing wastewater nutrient cycling strategies for Malibu, and watershed planner in Aliso Viejo. Dr. Roley designed the Laguna Hills Leisure World yard waste composting project, Ecology Farms vermicomposting site and has consulted on integrated green waste management projects for the Counties of Orange, Los Angeles, San Diego and Ventura. As a Resource manager for the Thousand Oaks, Ahmanson Ranch development he created water harvesting, flood control and habitat restoration master plan to respect the diversity and complexity of the surrounding ecosystem. An example of his international work is the design and installation of agroforestry and sustainable/edible landscapes for an orphanage landscape in Tijuana, Mexico and in Porte Alegre, Brazil. He worked on an ecotourist biopreserve for The American Society of Landscape Architecture and Pronatura in the Yucatan, Mexico and at El Pilar, Belize for UCSB Mesoamerican Institute. He is founding director of the Permaculture Institute of Southern California and co-founder of the Eos Institute and its environmental journal Earthword. |
||
Walter Scott Perry Mr. Perry, an award-winning architect has been practicing and teaching environmental design and whole systems thinking since the early 1970’s when he was an early participant in the pioneer passive solar movement originating in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His studio, Ecotech Design is a full-service architectural practice, while Ecotech Institute conducts research and investigation into innovative ecological systems applications, using a pre-engineered, kit-of-parts design methodology. Integrated design or the balance between things ecological and technical to generate living structure, so-called ecologytechnology is a concept and major form-giver in the work. The fusion of natural systems and light with space to create living architecture is an awareness learned from the late Louis I. Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania, where Mr. Perry studied and earned his Masters of Architecture degree. He has studios in Los Angeles and is currently licensed in California, New York, New Mexico and New Jersey. |
||
|
Michelle Kou Michelle Kou is an architect and urban planner with both public and private sector experience. She is currently a Community Planner with RBF Consulting, a full service firm providing consulting services for planning, design and construction of the built environment. Michelle’s work includes General Plan updates, specific plans and design guidelines. Michelle strives to incorporate sustainable principles and practices into both her professional and personal life. She is a LEED Accredited Professional and is interested in the connections between public health and sustainability. At home, she is a avid user of “green” cleaning products and building materials. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cal Poly Pomona and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from UCI. She began her professional career focused on residential architecture as a Project Designer and Manager for KTGY Group. She has designed numerous homes in Nevada, where she is a Registered Architect. |
||
Susan B. Davison Susan Davison is an urban planner with experience in master and environmental planning. She has been responsible for managing multi-disciplinary teams to help develop cost-effective, innovative, and effective sustainability programs for master planned developments. Land use decisions in large (and small) scale development have significant and long ranging impacts. Once constructed, these communities help determine how we will use our resources in the years ahead. Susan’s work includes complex, long term projects that use habitat conservation and green building systems to understand total environmental impacts. Using a systems-based approach, her project design teams are able to optimize planning while exploring design decisions that minimize environmental impacts. Susan is Director at VTBS, an architectural firm designing retirement, educational and mixed-use projects. VTBS is currently designing an infill mixed-use project in Los Angeles, slated to have the largest green roof in Los Angeles County. Susan currently manages operations for the five US offices. Prior to joining this firm, she worked as a senior project manager at EDAW, an international planning firm based in San Francisco. |
||
David Borland Brown David Borland Brown is a field ecologist with experience in facility and resource management, a writer, and an instructor promoting affordable, low impact alternative building and passive energy techniques. An accomplished timber framing and earth building craftsman, he has worked "restorations" for both private and local government sectors of the building industry. He has lived a basic and simple "off grid" life for over a decade spanning mountain and desert regions, holding to the belief that "all land is sacred" and as such, our impact as individuals must be minimal in order to accommodate others around us. A believer in simple and local economics, he is active in promoting both sustainable building techniques and agriculture practices. He is a trustee for the Native American Land Conservancy. His organization, the Turtlefeathercentre, founded to promote simple and sustainable living, has recently completed a rammed earth/coil building in the Mojave desert of Southeastern California, and offers project management and instruction for owner/builders and those just interested in simplifying their lifestyles. |
||
 |
Patrick Conlon Pat has lived in the Coachella Valley for 34 years, and has been employed at the City of Palm Desert for 31 years. He started working for the City in 1977 as a Building Inspector and worked his way up to the position of Building Official. He served in that capacity for 19 years. He then served as Project Administrator, heading up the City’s utility undergrounding projects and the building of the Coachella Valley Animal Campus. He headed up the City’s solar initiative in 2002 by purchasing discounted solar panels for residents, and oversaw the installation of solar panels at the Palm Desert Civic Center. He was the obvious choice when Palm Desert decided to embark on energy efficiency. Palm Desert’s goals are to reduce energy demand and consumption by 30% by 2011. Pat enjoys working on and riding his motorcycle, playing Wallyball, and surfing. When he greets you with “Top of the mornin’”, reply “And the rest of the day to yourself!” |
|
 |
Robin Kobaly Robin Kobaly has served as both United States Bureau of Land Management District Botanist for the California Desert District and Preserve Manager at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve. A professional biologist with over twenty years of experience as an interpretive specialist Robin designs and presents award winning events and programs for adults and children. After receiving her Master’s Degree in Biology from the University of California Riverside, Robin traveled the world continuing her lifelong fascination with plants, birds and wildlife. She worked as the Curator of Botany at the Riverside Municipal Museum and then began a twenty-year career with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as a botanist, wildlife biologist and natural history interpreter. Robin also served as Acting Chief of Public Affairs for BLM and has prepared and presented programs for television and radio broadcast as well as appearing as spokesperson for many different programs focused on natural history. Robin co-founded and helped to develop The Wildlands Conservancy, one of the largest non-profit land conservancies in the United States. Over the years, Robin has studied the indigenous native people in many areas and has researched, tested and taught the use of plants for food, medicine, tools, clothing and art. |
|
 |
Cynthia J. Kurtz Prior to joining Planning Company Associates Cynthia Kurtz served for 10 years, as City Manager of Pasadena, California, a diverse community of 144,000, with 2,300 employees, 11 departments, and an operating budget of over $500 million. She began her career with Pasadena in 1987 as the Capital Program Administrator. In 1991, she became director of Public Works dealing with the nuts and bolts of the city from streets and traffic signals to the planning for the light rail line from Los Angeles to Pasadena. Before she came to the City of Pasadena, she worked 10 years for the city of Portland Oregon, holding a variety of positions in the Office of Transportation and the Bureau of Economic Development. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in community development and housing from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Arts degree in transportation and urban planning from the University of Iowa. |
|
 |
Susan Lien Longville Susan Lien Longville is the Director of the Water Resources Institute (WRI) at California State University San Bernardino better known as simply the WRI. The WRI is one of Cal State’s partnerships between the university and the communities they serve. The WRI is an interdisciplinary center that encourages and develops sound research and analysis and provides educational resources to assist the communities we serve addressing the complex water issues affecting Southern California’s human and non-communities. Under Susan’s leadership, the WRI is providing technical support to a variety of integrated projects that promote sustainable land use practices that minimize the impact to the watershed values. The WRI serves as a regional repository for water-related documents and data about the Southern California region including rare historical, legal, technical information known as the Water Archives that are housed in the WRI offices on the 4th floor of Cal State’s Pfau Library. If you drop into the WRI offices the WRI offices, you find it crowed with CSUSB students that are employed as Watershed Management Interns. Each student is participating in real-world research or public policy problem-solving activity that is addressing the impacts to watershed sustainability from explosive growth, changing land use patterns and expanding urbanization into open spaces. |
|
 |
Martin Yoklic Mr. Yoklic is a faculty researcher at University of Arizona’s Environmental Research Laboratory (ERL) and consultant specializing in renewable resources and community sustainability. His research interests include climate impacts on urban ecosystems and the associated implications resource scarcity (water and energy) on community viability. His current projects include development and testing of rainwater systems for potable use as part of a facility to demonstrate the potential for net-zero energy and water in a cold climate residence and evaluating halophyte farming as a viable disposal method for the concentrate from large scale reverse osmosis water treatment facilities. |
|
 |
Bonnie Montoya May Ms. Montoya-May is a founding principal of Abundance Unlimited, Inc. a professional services company. She has more than sixteen years of progressive management experience in the areas of strategic and organizational planning, marketing and communications, economic development, land use planning and entitlement, environmental planning, permitting and oversight; and development. She has worked in both public and private sectors and is experienced in establishing and managing public-private partnerships. She is presently working on three LEED registered projects including LEED Neighborhood Development (ND) Pilot, LEED Home Pilot and LEED Core and Shell (CS) projects. While serving as Planning Director and Senior Project Manager for SE Corporation and Temescal Canyon Properies-8, LLC, Ms. Montoya-May was responsible for guiding the overall planning, environmental, entitlement and project management efforts for the 543-acre mixed use Dos Lagos Master-Planned development project in Corona, CA. She has served as an Assistant Director for the USC Center for Economic Development (USC CED), as Interim Director for the USC International Resort Research Center (USC IRRC), and as Programs Coordinator for the USC Neighborhood Academic Initiative (USC NAI), among others. She has served as a planning and business consultant, has written numerous grants with over $3 million funded, and operated and managed a commercial graphics and printing company in Los Angeles, California for a number of years. Ms. Montoya-May holds a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Development, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban Planning both from the University of Southern California (USC). She has served on a variety of educational, community-based and non-profit task forces and committees, and is presently founding Chair for the USGBC-Inland Empire Chapter. |
|
|
John R. Dougal Jon R. Dougal serves as the Secretary on GreenMotion.org, Board of Directors, as well as the Board of Advisors to the USGBC-IE, and as Executive Director of the US Green Real Estate Council. Jon is known internationally as an expert writer, speaker, tradeshow director, and publisher on sustainable, environmental and business development technologies. Jon is the Founder, Editor, and Publisher of several newsletters focused on sustainability including: www.GreenSage.com; Building Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility, Green InSight from www.GreenMotion.org; and Builder Architect Magazine; these publications reach 300k subscribers in 21 countries. Dedicated to "Green Building, Natural Products, and Sustainable Living" these eNewsLetters cover all emerging topics, technologies, processes, and techniques needed by both professionals, government officials, agriculturalists, biofuel producers, and home owners in addressing climate change. Jon has two decades of extensive hands-on experience with various green building materials and technologies, which makes his position with the Board of Directors of GreenMotion and the US Green Real Estate Council most important. His work since the 1990's has allowed him to work with industry, commercial real estate, and private home owners to select and use the best-of-the-best green products to conserve energy, reduce green –house emissions, utilize renewable materials for construction, environmentally sensitive storage, handling, and processing of hazardous wastes materials, and identify off -grid power sources through selected waste-to-energy systems. Through his extensive business connections, Chamber of Commerce affiliations, and elected official ties throughout California, Jon is a major contributor to California becoming a World leader in environmental stewardship. Such work includes, but is not limited to the "California Anti -Global Warming Act", and as founder of the USGBC Central Valley Chapter, and many other advisory positions. Other notable affiliations over the past 20 years include: "Sustainable San Francisco" as Co-author of the San Francisco Master Plan for future generations; "Green Building Products Showcase" which was co-sponsored by the AIA-Committee on the Environment, Pacific Gas & Electric, Urban Ecology Institute, and the Architects, Designers, & Planners for Social Responsibility, and was the original concept for West Coast Green Conference. Conference Host and founder of the benchmark "Altering Profiles of the Future" for the commissioning of the U.C. Santa Barbara campus Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and management the foundation for all future California State and University of California conferences on the greening of college campus. Jon was the Sustainable Initiatives Manager for Armstrong World Industries and was successful in changing the corporate culture to one of environmental consciousness. As an importer of bamboo building products he has extensive international connections. He is active with the International Diplomacy Council serving as a consultant on sustainability issues with the countries of Saudi Arabia, India and Japan. He has also served as a Trade Consultant with the German Chamber of Commerce on Environmental Marketing. Jon currently teaches "green technology" at the Chaffey Community Colleges of San Bernardino and Riverside counties and resides in Southern California. |
||
|
Jim Sullivan Jim Sullivan is the GIS Program Director for the Coachella Valley Association of Governments. He has worked on the Coachella Valley Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan since 2001. Jim has extensive experience with regional habitat conservation plans and geographic information systems. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and is the Vice Director for Public Information of the Inland Empire Section of the American Planning Association. He holds a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of California, Irvine and a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from UCLA. |
||
| Tracy Stone AIA Tracy Stone, AIA opened her own firm, Tracy A. Stone Architect, in 1991 after working with Ray and Finn Kappe as a project architect for 5 years. As principal of the firm, Ms Stone has been involved with a broad range of design projects, ranging from a 7000 sf. commercial building to a dog boarding and grooming facility to affordable housing for the central coast of California. She has been responsible for all aspects of each job, from design and specification writing, to construction management and serving as liaison with city and governmental bodies. Ms. Stone is a member of the US Green Building Council and is a LEED Accredited Professional. She brings to her architectural practice a working knowledge of sustainable strategies, technologies and materials. Passive solar features are regularly incorporated into design solutions, with more integrated technologies employed where possible. Recent projects have utilized such features as retention basins, green roofs, thermal chimneys, building integrated photo-voltaics, permeable paving, etc to reduce the environmental footprint of the project. Ms. Stone served as both design architect and LEED manager for the North Central Animal Services Center, which received its LEED Silver Certification in February of 2008. In addition to her practice, Ms. Stone teaches design and sustainability at several colleges and universities in the Los Angeles region. At Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Ms Stone initiated the first sustainable design studio which has explored a number of projects in recent years related to urban stormwater runoff as it impacts the Los Angeles River basin. |
||
| Alan Locke, PE Founder, Partner, IBE Consulting Engineers Alan Locke, PE, founder and partner of IBE Consulting Engineers, has more than 28 years of experience providing mechanical and building engineering design for a wide range of projects, including museums, libraries, laboratories, hospitals, schools, corporate office buildings, and entertainment facilities. In 1999, he founded IBE with the belief that the engineering components should be fully integrated into the architectural design of a building in order to create innovative solutions and add value to each project Alan received his B.Sc. in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Napier University of Commerce and Technology in Edinburgh, Scotland and his M.Sc. in Fuel Technology from Middlesex University in London, England. Currently, Alan is an adjunct professor of Climatology and Environmental Control Systems at UCLA and has taught engineering design and construction practice to architectural students at UCLA, USC and SCI-ARC for the past 10 years. |
||
