2008 Green Living Phoenix Conference Presenters
Toby Hemenway "Retrofitting the Suburbs for Green Living!"
Learn how to save energy, water, time, and resources with simple steps to green your home and yard. We'll cover strategies and techniques for creating a home landscape that can reduce water and air-conditioning bills, offer food for your family, habitat for wildlife, and look beautiful all at the same time.BIO: Toby Hemenway is a nationally renown speaker, writer, author of Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, the first major book on permaculture in North America. He is an adjunct professor of graduate education at Portland State University, SNF Scholar-in-Residence at Pacific University, the director of the Center for Pattern Literacy and a field director for the Permaculture Institute (USA). His articles have appeared in Fine Gardening, Natural Home, Whole Earth Review, other national magazines, and he has taught and lectured on ecological design in many countries.
CONTACT: Toby Hemenway
Patternliteracy.com
3501 SE 14th Ave.
Portland, OR 97202
Brad Lancaster "Rainwater & Greywater Harvesting! "
Turning Drains Into Sponges and Water Scarcity Into Water Abundance: This inspiring presentation shares eight universal principles of water harvesting along with simple strategies that turn water scarcity into water abundance. These methods empower you to create integrated water-sustainable landscape plans at home and throughout your community.Rainwater harvesting is the process of capturing rain and making the most of it as close as possible to where it falls. Greywater harvesting is the process of directing water from household sink, bathtub, shower, and washing machine drains into the soils of the landscape where the water is naturally filtered and reused to generate more on-site resources. When the two work hand in hand, water use can be reduced by 30 to 50%!
You'll see examples of enhancing local food security, passively cooling cities in summer, reducing costs of living and energy consumption, controlling erosion, averting flooding, reviving dead waterways, minimizing water pollution, building community, creating celebration, and more.
BIO: Brad Lancaster is a nationally renown speaker and author of the acclaimed Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape has sold over 8,000 books (3 printings) and has won multiple awards.
Living on an eighth of an acre in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is less than 12 inches annually, Brad practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of rainwater per year. Brad and his brother Rodd have created an oasis in the desert by directing this harvested rainwater, not off their property and into storm drains, but instead they incorporate it into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape and habitat for wildlife. Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters (DesertHarvesters.org). Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, and many others. He has helped design integrated water harvesting and permaculture systems for homeowners and gardeners, including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the Milagro and Stone Curves co-housing projects.
CONTACT: Brad Lancaster
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Rainsource Press
813 N. 9th Ave.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
Mara DeFilippis & Paul Mosier -- "Invest Green"
Bio for Mara DeFilippis: Mara proudly joined Invest Green in 2007. She previously worked with a larger firm in the Phoenix area since 2003. Mara is a Cum Laude graduate of Arizona State University, where she earned her degree in Accounting. As a Financial Advisor her primary distinction is that of focused financial strategies with integrity and a service model that strives to exceed your expectations. She focuses on managing the wealth of private families and small businesses utilizing individually tailored socially responsible investment portfolios. Her business is built on a genuine care for her client's unique financial goals and challenges. Through her disciplined wealth management process, she develops strategic solutions that focus on the complex needs of individuals and business owners, and their unique financial circumstances.
Mara provides asset allocation strategies, socially responsible investment advisory services, retirement and education strategies and estate planning solutions. Although she does not give tax advice, she offers tax managed solutions, as well as assisting clients with estate planning issues. Her prime focus is on financial strategies that are funded with socially responsible investments, always keeping in mind the unique circumstances and goals of each individual client. It is her intention to gain a complete understanding of your unique financial needs and goals, and then meet these objectives with realistic investment solutions. Mara is a long time Arizona resident and currently lives in Mesa, AZ with her son, Nicholas. She is the founder of the Phoenix Green Chamber of Commerce and serves on the Board for US Green Chamber of Commerce. She is active in the community with environmental issues, children′s rights and women's issues.
Bio for Paul Mosier: Paul founded Invest Green in 2006 with the aim of providing better service to socially responsible individuals and businesses. He previously worked with two global financial service companies since 1999. Before founding Invest Green, working as a financial advisor who happened to be passionate about the environment, human rights and other issues, Paul made a point of educating his clients about the opportunity to invest with their conscience. Finding that there existed a great disconnect between socially responsible investors and the industry that is supposed to help them, Paul began dedicating himself to finding and serving these people. He enjoys getting to know his clients and creating strategies to meet their needs. Paul is a native of Phoenix who had 5 majors in college and something else in grad school, none of which had anything to do with investing. He enjoys writing, and has made a living as an artist. He lives in downtown Phoenix with his wife Keri and daughter Eleri.
CONTACT: Mara DeFilippis & Paul Mosier
602.266.1989 (office)
1661 E. Camelback, Suite 100
Phoenix, AZ 85016
mara@investgreen.org
paul@investgreen.org
www.investgreen.org
Mick Dalrymple "Green Building"
BIO: Green building advocate Mick Dalrymple helped found the Arizona Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council in 2002 and now serves on the national Board of Directors. Dalrymple and environmental designer Jeff Frost launched a.k.a. Green Environmental Building Center in 2005, providing green building products, consulting, and architectural services for residential and commercial green building projects. Dalrymple′s national policy efforts include: instigator roles in a national effort to better define and certify green building products, and in efforts to form a National Green Builidng Retailers Association; helping develop the USGBC Chapters′ role in the roll-out strategy of LEED for Homes, and representing the U.S. Green Building Council in the development of the NAHB-ICC National Green Building Standard. His local community efforts include creating the Cinema Verde Sustainable Film Festival; helping plan the annual Green Building Expo in Central Arizona; revising the Scottsdale Green Building Program checklist. As President of Desert Moon Productions, he created the TV series Build It Green!, which PBS has requested to distribute nationally. Dalrymple is a frequent public speaker and media resource on green building and sustainability.Dalrymple received his MIM from Thunderbird, an MBA from Arizona State University, and studied Spanish in Mexico. His BA with High Distinction comes from the University of Arizona (Electrical Engineering, Math, and International Relations).
CONTACT: Mick Dalrymple
A.K.A. Green
8100 E. Indian School Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
480-946-9600
mick@akagreen
akagreen.com
Stacy Wilde "Living Green in a Healthy Home!"
Think your cleaning products only affect how clean your house is? Think again. From cleaning products to personal care, everything that we breathe or touch affects our health, and our planet. Exposure to these products has been identified as a key factor in the aging process, even if someone else cleans your home! By creating an awareness of the dangers, we can become better consumers and reap the benefits of health. We′ll identify some good resources, and find comfort in knowing that you don′t have to compromise quality to do the right thing for you, your family, and the earth.BIO: Having spent 15 years in management consulting and organizational development, Stacy has invested the last 5 years focusing her energy on finding alternatives to "the typical stuff". She educates consumers on making healthier choices with their dollars. Stacy believes you can live in nature′s harmony without compromising on quality, and impact the world every time you shop. She is the owner of Exotic Pools, Inc., Nature′s Harmony a distributor of Shaklee products, and a Founding member US Green Chamber of Commerce.
For a FREE 12 page Household Toxins Dossier, and a report on the simple things you can do to get a Green Clean House, email your request to wilde@shaklee.net and visit www.getcleanstaygreen.com for more information on what′s under your sink, product cost and effectiveness comparisons, and responsible cleaning products.
CONTACT: Stacy Wilde
wilde@shaklee.net
www.getcleanstaygreen.com
Jack Smith "Alternative Fuel Vehicles"
Jack Smith has twenty-four years of Sales and Service management experience with General Motors. Currently, Mr. Smith is the Fleet Account Executive-Government Sales and Alt Fuel Vehicles for GM’s Rocky Mountain area.Mr. Smith most recently served as a National Fleet Executive in Detroit where he served as a National Fleet Executive responsible for cornerstone accounts such as Mary Kay Cosmetics and Hewlett Packard when combined had a fleet of 20,000 units. Prior to that, he held positions overseas as country manager for Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, U.A.E and Yemen.
Mr. Smith holds a B.S. in Heavy Equipment Technology from Pittsburg State University.
Greg Peterson "Living Green...What Does it Mean?"
There are so many questions about just what it means to live green AND there are so many choices to be made. Where does one start? Join Greg as he explores some of the many questions and answers those burning questions you have.BIO: Greg Peterson, received his Masters degree in Environmental Planning in December 2006, and his Bachelors degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at ASU in 2004. Both degrees were grounded in sustainability studies merging over 20 years of real world self study with academic planning. As a resident of Phoenix for the last 40 years, Greg has a long rich history of urban sustainability and food production in dry lands. He was first introduced to desert gardening by his mother at the age of 12. Throughout his life the notion of sustainability played a key role in the way he pursued his education and planted his gardens. In 1991 the concept of permaculture was introduced and brought together many sustainability concepts into one cohesive system.
In 2001 out of his undergraduate work at ASU, Greg created a new concept called the Urban Farm, a real world environmental showcase home in the heart of Phoenix, Arizona. Utilizing his extensive background to develop an innovative holistic home site, The Urban Farm (www.urbanfarm.org) features an entirely edible 1/3 acre farm, rainwater and greywater harvesting, solar applications along with extensive use of reclaimed and recycled building materials. The site is opened periodically throughout the year for the public to experience, taking with them some of the principles presented. The Urban Farm offers classes, lectures and tours throughout the year.Greg Peterson is a writer, teacher and lecturer on many aspects of sustainability. His passion is to present the concepts so that the receiver can conceptualize and implement the technology into their own space. He is currently a contributing writer for Phoenix Magazine, Edible Phoenix and is a primary writer and host for the new television show Smart Spaces: Inside & Out www.SmartSpacesTV.com. Greg has owned several businesses in his life and has an extensive background in the world of technology having run a computer training and software development company from 1986 to 2003.
CONTACT: Greg Peterson
Your Guide To Green
5555 N. 7th Street
Phoenix, Arizona?602-279-3713
green@yg2g.com
www.yourguidetogreen.com
