| - Ed Mazria (Keynote) | - Stephen Kanipe | - Kristin Ralff Douglas | ||
| - Morgan Brown | - Hillary Mizia | - Auden Schendler | ||
| - John Fregonese | - Sandra Mallory | |||
| - David Johnston | - Geoff Pampush |
Edward Mazria is an internationally recognized architect with a long and distinguished career. His architecture and planning projects span over a thirty-year period and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach to its design.
His published material includes technical papers, articles for professional magazines, and a number of published works including The Passive Solar Energy Book published by Rodale Press. His most recent article It’s the Architecture Stupid! published in Solar Today Magazine, and subsequent article Turning Down the Global Thermostat published in Metropolis Magazine, outline his strategy for addressing today’s most pressing global challenge, climate change
His buildings have been published in Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Metropolis, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Process, Kenchiku Bunka, Public Garden, Solar Today, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal, The New Mexico Business Journal, and the New York Times.
Mr. Mazria has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has taught architecture at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Colorado-Denver, UCLA and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico. Back to Top
Read Ed's Published Articles:
+ It’s the Architecture Stupid!
+ Turning Down the Global Thermostat
+ The
Building You're In Fuels Global Warming
Morgan
Brown
Morgan Brown is a principal and co-founder of Developing
Green, LLC – along with his business partner, land use attorney Martin
Flannes. Developing Green is a Ketchum-based developer and consulting firm
that was founded on the idea that profitable development projects –
homes, neighborhoods, institutional & commercial buildings – could
be done in a healthier and more environmentally sustainable way. Developing
Green offers green development services to owners, developers, lenders,
conservation groups, and public agencies.
Morgan is also the owner of Sun Valley Solar, a renewable energy company.
Morgan has a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington
and has substantial experience in the high tech industry, including positions
of Network Business Unit Manager for Central Europe (Microsoft), Director
of Business Development & Technology Strategy (Visio) and VP of Marketing
(Netliant). Morgan is a LEED Accredited Professional, a NABCEP certified
solar PV installer and also serves on the board of directors for Citizens
for Smart Growth. He has taught courses in renewable energy and green building
at the College of Southern Idaho extension. Morgan and his architect wife,
Rebecca Bundy, have built a model green, solar home outside Ketchum, Idaho.
Their home is on the conference tour Saturday morning.
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John Fregonese
John Fregonese operates a full-service planning firm that specializes in comprehensive planning, GIS analysis, land-use ordinances, implementation strategies, and public involvement programs and materials.
Fregonese has been a planner for 25 years, where he has
earned the reputation of being able to create both an energizing vision
for communities and concrete, workable solutions to urban problems. He makes
planning interesting, relevant and understandable to the average person.
As a result, his projects tend to garner strong public input and support.
Fregonese is best known for his work in Portland, Oregon, a city that has
been written about in hundreds of newspapers and magazines as one of the
most livable and well-planned cities in America. For five years, he served
as the planning director for Metro, the regional government whose primary
mission was to develop and implement a regional growth concept. The concept
calls for efficient use of land, an extensive commitment to public involvement,
preservation of green and natural areas, development of a strong connection
between transportation and land-use decisions, and establishing a strong
relationship between Metro and the three counties and 24 cities within the
metropolitan region. That regional growth concept, known as the Metro 2040
Growth Concept, is recognized nationally and has been the recipient of many
national awards, and form the foundation for regional land use and transportation
planning to this day in the Portland Metro region.
Since starting Fregonese Calthorpe Associates in 1997, he has led a variety
of planning projects, including regional vision proejcts in Austin, Salt
Lake City, Nashville, Chicago, Los Angeles; county-wide coordination plans
in California and Oregon; city comprehensive plans and development ordinances
in Texas, Vermont, Oregon, Georgia and Colorado; and neighborhood and downtown
plans in Oregon, Wyoming, Utah, California, and Texas. Back
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David Johnston, leader in the US green building industry, is president of What's Working, an international design and consulting firm, specializing in environmental construction technology. He was the founder of the Passive Solar Industries Council in Washington, DC. As president of Lightworks Construction, Remodeling Magazine named him one of the top 50 contractors in the country. The National Association of Home Builder's Press published his book, Building Green in a Black and White World. He works internationally using his unique approach to harmonize the built environment with local ecology, using culturally and contextually appropriate technology. He is currently consulting in the San Francisco Bay Area developing a regional green building program. Back to Top
Stephen Kanipe began working with Aspen and Pitkin County
in March 1989 and was appointed Chief Building Official in May 1995. He
directed the development of the Aspen/Pitkin Energy Conservation Code, the
first energy code in the country to regulate energy use outside of the building
envelope (snow melt, pools, spas), which has been in use since 1996. In
1999 he was appointed by the International Conference of Building Officials
Board of Directors to serve on the International Energy Conservation Code
Development Committee and served a chair in 2003. In 1999 Stephen was appointed
to the Board of Directors of the Colorado Chapter of the International Code
Council, a statewide organization of code officials and industry representatives.
Stephen’s community work includes a partnership with the Community
Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE) to develop the City of Aspen Efficient
Building Program; a point based tool that encourages the use of recycled
materials, advanced IAQ and HVAC systems, engineered framing components
and solar design. As President of the Aspen Waldorf Foundation Board of
Directors, Stephen led a private school initiative that constructed four
buildings totaling about 22,500 square feet of straw bale construction complemented
with solar hot water, photovoltaics, natural finishes and recycled materials.
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Sandra practices architecture at Environmental Works (EW) Community Design Center in Seattle where, in addition to her general design work, she works to expand and promote the organization’s green building capacity. She manages EW’s Sustaining Affordable Communities initiative which is aimed at providing sustainable design assistance and education to EW’s non-profit clients. She has also been spearheading the LEED Certification process for Traugott Terrace, an affordable housing project in downtown Seattle. Sandra taught all aspects of environmentally responsible design for three years in the Sustainable Systems Program at Slippery Rock University. In Seattle she has taught the Environmental Principles course in the University of Washington Department of Architecture and teaches a one-day energy unit each fall for the Sustainable Building Advisor Program at Seattle Central Community College. Sandra is a LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building Council, and is a member of the Society of Building Science Educators and the American Solar Energy Society. Back to Top
Originally from Pennsylvania, Hillary Mizia grew up outside
of Philadelphia thinking that water came from the tap, chicken soup came
from the can and that trash went “away.” In 1997 she received
a BA from Prescott College in Experiential Education with a focus on Environmental
Studies where she spent much of her time working with 4th, 5th and 6th graders
on environmental curricula. Following graduation, Hillary continued her
work with elementary school aged kids.
In 2000 Hillary started her employment with New Belgium, and in 2001 created
the Sustainability Outreach Coordinator position at New Belgium Brewing
Company. Through her job with the brewery Hillary has had the opportunity
to educate everyone from the 65 year-old beer drinker with little to no
environmental awareness to the 7th grader studying sustainability. She is
also deeply involved with many organizations that carry and support the
environmental beliefs of New Belgium. This has lead to the creation of some
cutting edge action, such as the Partners for Healthy Watersheds.
In April of 2003 Hillary completed an MA in Environment and Community through Antioch University, Seattle. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Big Thompson Watershed Forum and the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association, the Steering Committee for the Rocky Mountain Climate Change Organization, and the Advisory Board for P3 Colorado. Hillary lives, telecommutes and plays with her husband and two dogs in Golden, Colorado. Back to Top
Geoff
Pampush
Mr. Pampush has a distinguished history of service to the community and
the environment. Since 2000, Jeff has served as the State Director of the
Idaho chapter of the The Nature Conservancy. Jeff has served on numerous
gubernatorial and legislatively appointed committees addressing natural
resource and related tax policies. In 1991, he founded the Oregon Water
Trust, a non-profit dedicated to buying instream water rights for streamflow
restoration and served as its Executive Director for nearly ten years.
Regarding his presentation at the Sun Valley Sustainability Conference, he writes: "Sustaining ecological systems in the rapidly growing and changing Intermountain West poses challenges for our communities. Fire suppression, conversion of large parcel ranches to subdivisions, invasive weed species associated with new roads, expanding demands for water in urban communities are just a few of the forces at play affecting ecological systems. I will provide an overview of changing land use patterns -- particularly growth rates and pattern of growth in the Intermountain West. Further, I will reflect upon two systems -- the 23 million acre Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (25 counties in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho) and the threats to long term sustainability current growth brings-- and what the Nature Conservancy proposed to do about it. Additionally, I will focus on Silver Creek (Picabo, Idaho), an internationally known spring creek system famous for large, finnicky trout. While the Conservancy acquired our first parcel at Silver Creek nearly 30 years ago, we continue to learn about the threats to this sensitive system's viability -- and I will discuss our approach to sustaining the system.
Finally, I will discuss the use of Conservation Easements -- one of the most popular conservation tools in use in the Intermoutain West for conserving private land." Back to Top
Kristin Ralff Douglas, LEED AP
Kristin Ralff Douglas is Director of Business Development and Programs for Paladino & Co. In this role, she is in charge of developing new lines of business as well as expanding existing products and services, including the firm’s “Get to Green” professional development workshops, which are being offered nationally. She also managing the firm’s work with King County Solid Waste Board, which includes programs to educate and inform King County project managers and local commercial building industry on adopting LEED to King County projects, both new construction and major renovations.
Ralff Douglas served as the first managing director of the US Green Building Council, where she was instrumental in the development and launch of the LEED Green Building Rating System and the rapid growth of the Council. She also served as the publisher and editor of Environmental Design + Construction magazine, the leading publication for the green building industry. Back to Top
