Annual Retreat
Speakers
NW Ecobuilding Guild Annual Members’ Retreat
October 17 - 19, 2008
"Deep Green"
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Saturday Keynote Presentation
Meror Krayenhoff
www.sirewall.com
An environmental builder over the last thirty years, Meror has honed his credentials as an Energy Systems Technologist, project engineer for the Canadian National Research Council, Advisory member of Canada's R2000 program for energy efficiency, Indoor Air Quality Auditor for the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Certified Residential Builder (CRB) and Registered Housing Professional (RHP) with the Canadian Home Builders' Association.
As the inventor, developer, and patent creator of SIREWALL (Stabilized, Insulated Rammed Earth) and President of Terra Firma Builders Ltd., until recently, Meror thought he would continue to build SIREWALL homes on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, make a great living and retire there with his family. With mass awareness of environmental issues and demand for building alternatives on the rise, he has realized that SIREWALL has the potential to develop a new standard for healthy, efficient homes and buildings - a standard that could be proudly shared with like-minded visionaries around the globe.
Joanie Parsons
www.parsonspr.com
Joanie Parsons is the president of Parsons Public Relations, a Seattle-based, full-service strategic communications firm serving sustainably minded clients and organizations. She has established her company as a leader in promoting green building and development, representing our region’s most innovative builders, architects and developers in a fast-evolving and expanding industry. Joanie and her company have won several awards for their commitment to social and environmental sustainability. In addition, Joanie is a noted speaker on green communications as well as emerging trends in marketing and public relations. Her company's community giving program, Parsons GoodWorks, contributes each year to a variety of organizations, including Seattle’s Children’s Home Society, American Lung Association of Washington, and Estación Las Tortugas (Sea Turtle Education Center in Costa Rica).
Tom Campbell
www.clearwatercommons.com
Tom is currently a senior associate of AmericaSpeaks, a national organization specializing in public deliberation. He designed and produced the Regional Reform Process for Northeast Ohio and is working on the rebuilding plan for New Orleans. As the chief policy assistant to the Speaker of the House of the Washington State Legislature, Tom was a principal architect of the state’s Growth Management Act and regional transportation initiatives. Tom also co-founded the Clearwater School in Bothell, a democratic-based school for pre-school through high school students. He recently became a developer with the Clearwater Commons, a 16 unit “green village” adjacent to the school. Both the school and the Commons are pursuing an extensive salmon restoration project on the 11 acre site.
Brandon Tauscher
www.projectgreenbuild.org
Brandon is a "green” home owner-builder and an organizer with Project Green Build, a non-profit organization that works with public and private stakeholders to bring together the building industry, utility companies, developers and local jurisdictions. He is on the Regional Board of the NW EcoBuilding Guild and is pursuing a Ph.D. in sustainability education, studying action research, social marketing, community development, and leadership theory.
Chris Herman
www.wintersundesign.com
Chris is a Certified Professional Building Designer. His work includes: Residential building design with specialties in passive solar and sustainable (green) building design, and photovoltaic (solar electric) system design. He is experienced with alternative & conventional, resource & energy efficient, low toxic, building materials & systems since 1987.
Jon Alexander
www.sunshineconstruction.biz
Jon is president of Sunshine Construction and has specialized in green building and remodeling for the past 17 years. He is one of the founders of the NW EcoBuilding Guild and has long been involved in the Seattle area Built Green Program of the Master Builders Assoc.
Mark Buehrer
www.2020engineering.com
At 2020 Engineering Mark and his staff design sustainable and low impact designs for rainwater harvesting, wastewater treatment and water reuse systems. They also work with porous pavements, rain gardens and material recycling & composting facilities
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Sunday Keynote Presentation
Ray Levesque
www.sukadem.com
Ray is a community development strategist focusing on Native American communities in the US and Canada, as well as the Amazon region in Brazil. He currently directs a new subdivision of 44 single family homes and 36 condos on the Lummi Reservation in Bellingham, Washington. The project dovetails with a larger initiative to create new housing, new jobs, and new businesses. This initiative is unique in that it is not driven by tribal or federal mandates, but by individual tribal members via a community development corporation.
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