Sustainable Idaho

Keynote Speaker: Janine Benyus
Montana resident, nationally renowned speaker and author of “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, Janine Benyus now writes popular books in the life sciences, consults with sustainable business leaders and talks about the genius that surrounds us.

Keynote Speaker: Thomas Gladwin
Thomas N. Gladwin is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the Erb Environmental Management Institute, jointly in the Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment, at the University of Michigan. He co-directs the University’s “Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research & Transformation” project in collaboration with the Ford Motor Company.

Tom is a Core Faculty Member in the HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Program and directs its Senior Executive Seminars in the U.S. He teaches a range of courses at the University focused on global change, sustainable enterprise and system dynamics.

Larry Selzer is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in metropolitan Washington, D.C. The Conservation Fund protects the nation‚s legacy of land and water resources in partnership with other nonprofit organizations, public agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals. Through land acquisition, community initiatives, and leadership development, The Fund and its partners demonstrate sustainable conservation solutions emphasizing the integration of economic and environmental goals. The Fund has protected more than 3.5 million acres since 1985. Prior to joining The Fund, Mr. Selzer directed marine research programs out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Board and is on the Board of Directors of the Wildlife Habitat Council and the Natural Resources Council of America. Mr. Selzer holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a Bachelors of Science in environmental science from Wesleyan University.

PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

Ben Alexander is Associate Director of the SocioEconomics Program at the Sonoran Institute and works out of the Institute's office in Bozeman, Montana. Ben holds a B.A. in History from Tufts University and an M.A. and M.Phil. in American Studies from Yale University. He has been working with the Institute on rural development and conservation for the last 7 years Ben’s most recent publications are The New Frontiers of Ranching: Business Diversification and Land Stewardship (Sonoran Institute, 2000); “Development by Default, Not Design: Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem” in National Parks and Rural Development (Island Press, 2000); “Saving the Family Ranch: New Direction” in Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture Ecology, and Economics (Island Press, 2002); and Prosperity in the 21st Century: The Role of Protected Public Lands (Sonoran Institute, 2004).

Richard Beam, MBA, CEP, System Director, Energy Management Services. Providence Health System, has more than 23 years experience in energy related fields. Richard’s extensive background includes energy - mechanical design and applications engineering; construction and contract management, and electric utility account management. He has been the Providence Health System Energy Manager for the last nine years, working with their Facilities Directors, Utility Companies, and Energy Service Providers in Alaska, California, Oregon, and Washington. Richard holds degrees and certificates in mechanical engineering, communications, and business. Providence Health System is a $3 billion revenue-generating, not-for-profit organization which includes hospitals, health plans, clinics, physicians, long term care facilities, low-income housing, assisted living, home care and hospice, advanced medical research and education, and community outreach programs. Today we carry on the mission and good works begun in the West by the Sisters of Providence in the 1850’s.

Janine Benyus is a noted science writer. She coined the term biomimicry, where people use nature as an inspiration for how we can make products and provide services. For example, spiders can make a filament stronger than Kevlar and mussels make an adhesive that works under water. They perform these miracles without huge inputs of energy or toxic chemicals and their products are biodegradable. Already designers are taking lessons from lotus leaves, designing paints and surfaces that can clean themselves. Her concepts are transforming how we design products, compute data, heal ourselves, harness energy and feed the world.

John Bernardo is the Resource Conservation Manager at Albertsons, Inc., one of the largest U.S. food and drug retailers with 2,300 stores in 31 states. He investigates and implements strategies to reduce waste generation and energy usage; increase efficiency, and minimize operating costs and environmental impact. Albertsons has received national recognition for the initiatives John has spearheaded. Previous positions that John has held include Pollution Prevention Coordinator at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Associate Director of the University of Arizona’s Science Center and Planetarium, Business Assistance Program Manager at the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality, and Science Programs Manager at The Carnegie Science Center. John received a BS in Biology and Environmental Resource Management from Pennsylvania State University and a M.Ed. in Science Education from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. His business philosophy is: “Waste is anything that is not as asset, and nothing but a lack of imagination.”

Susan Sokol Blosser is owner and President of Sokol Blosser Winery, Dundee, Oregon. She and Bill Blosser were early pioneers of the Oregon wine industry, clearing the land and planting their first vines in 1971. Sokol Blosser is known for its commitment to the environment, farming organically and seeking sustainable practices throughout their business. In December 2002, Sokol Blosser became the first winery in the world to receive the U.S. Green Building Council’s prestigious LEED certification for its new underground barrel cellar. Susan has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Reed College. Among her many professional and community activities are: founder of the Oregon Wine Marketing Coalition; founder and board member of the Oregon Chapter of Business for Social Responsibility; a director of the Oregon Environmental Council; and member of the Oregon Natural Step Board. In 2004, Susan received an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Portland.

Jeff Downhour is a principal in the firm of Mosaic Architecture in Helena, Montana. He graduated with honors from the Montana State University School of Architecture in 1990. Before and after graduation, Jeff worked with Don McLaughlin and Place Architecture in Bozeman, Montana. It was at Place that he became involved in the study of green or sustainable architecture primarily as the project architect on the MSU EpiCenter project. This focus on sustainable design has been continued and strengthened at Mosaic Architecture where the firm strives to create intelligent, responsible and regionally responsive design for the Rocky Mountain region. The team at Mosaic has designed several sustainable design focused buildings such as the University of Montana Recreation Center, the Sweetgrass Rest Area, and are currently working on Exworks!, a children’s science center pursuing LEED certification. Jeff is a LEED accredited professional. Mosaic has offices in Helena, Montana and Seattle, Washington. www.mosaicarch.com

Tom Eckman is the Manager of Conservation Resources for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Mr Eckman has worked for the Council since 1982. His primary responsibilities include the assessment of the energy conservation potential in the Pacific Northwest region, the integration of conservation resources into the resource portfolio for the region’s electric utility system and the development of a regional plan for conservation acquisition. In his current position, he assists the Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s public and private utilities and regulatory agencies develop, implement and evaluate conservation acquisition programs as part of these entities integrated resource planning efforts. Mr. Eckman was the recipient of the Bonneville Power Administrator’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2003 and the American Council for and Energy Efficient Economy’s 2004 Champion of Energy Efficiency Award.

Fred Fleming. Columbia Plateau Producers is a small group of progressive family farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Karl Kupers and Fred Fleming founded the organization in 2002 to market their custom-milled, high gluten flour, under the name, Shepherd's Grain. Shepherd's Grain products give conscientious food service providers, bakers, chefs and consumers the opportunity to improve the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by making environmentally sound farming, economically sustainable. Shepherd's Grain products are certified by The Food Alliance, a third party verifier that assures food is produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.

Mark Frankel is an architect and engineering consultant with Paladino & Company, an internationally recognized green building consulting firm. For over 15 years, Mark has advised hundreds of project teams on the design and implementation of sustainable, energy efficient, and climate responsive strategies and technologies for diverse building types across the country. Mark also has extensive experience with LEED. In addition to consulting with project teams on numerous LEED-rated projects, Mark leads Paladino’s technical consulting team to the U.S. Green Building Council. He speaks extensively around the country on a host of green building and LEED-related topics.

Dick Gardner is the principal consultant at Bootstrap Solutions, a firm specializing in rural development, economics, strategic planning, and group facilitation. From 1992 through July 2001, Dr. Gardner was the executive director of the Idaho Rural Partnership. For the prior nine years, Dick was a policy economist in the Idaho Division of Financial Management, working on agricultural, natural resource, rural development, and tax issues. Gardner is widely published and has participated in over 250 workshops on rural development. In his role with IRP, Gardner was the organizer and host of three conferences on sustainable development in Twin Falls, Lewiston, and Boise in the early 1990s. He participated in the formation of Intermountain Woodnet, a secondary wood manufacturing network, and helped organize Smallwood ’98, a national conference on sustainable forestry held in Lewiston. With degrees in resource economics from Colorado State, Minnesota, and Michigan State, Dr. Gardner has more education than is normally good for a person.

David Gibney. As a Sustainable Design Project Manager for HDR Inc, David Gibney is well experienced with researching and incorporating appropriate sustainable technologies into diverse projects. Specializing in complex facilities such as healthcare centers and advanced research labs, he integrates sustainability with other mission critical solutions such as security, productivity, and functionality. A LEED Accredited Professional since 2001, his client experience includes Sandia National Labs, the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, the States of California, Iowa and Oregon, and locally, the Christensen Corporation and St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Mr. Gibney holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Idaho and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Thomas Gladwin was awarded the Max McGraw Professorship of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. He has received 22 foundation and academic awards for research on ecologically and socially sustainable commerce. He serves on the editorial boards for several journals including the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Gladwin chairs the International Management Division of the Academy of Management as well as its Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest Group. He is also Director of the Corporate Environmental Management program at the University of Michigan. He has authored eight books and over 125 articles. Dr. Gladwin holds a B.S. from the University of Delaware, a M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in International Business and Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan.

Nathan Good, AIA, is a registered architect, certified interior designer, facilitator of integrated design teams and serves as a green building consultant to architectural and engineering firms throughout the US and Canada. He has developed a specialization at facilitating eco-charrettes as a means to launch integrated design teams. Nathan was the fifth individual in the US to obtain the designation of LEED Accredited Professional from the US Green Building Council and has been involved with dozens of commercial and institutional projects that have achieved, or are in the process of obtaining, LEED Certification. He was named the “2000 Energy Manager of the Year” by the Association of Professional Energy Managers and was honored in 2003 by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance for his advocacy of high-performance buildings in Oregon. In November of 2004, Nathan was profiled by the Sustainable Industries Journal as one of “25 Green Building Leaders in the Northwest”.

Jim Hanna joined Xanterra, the primary concessionaire at Yellowstone National Park, in December, 2003 as its first Director of Environmental Affairs. Jim oversees Xanterra’s many progressive environmental initiatives, including Xanterra’s ISO 14001 certified Environmental Management System. He is also a US Green Building Council LEED-accredited professional. Immediately prior to relocating to Yellowstone, he worked as Director of Operations for Teris Environmental in Los Angeles, managing the company’s seven regional offices in North America. In addition, he spent 2 1/2 years in Hollywood running a nonprofit environmental education foundation that used the influence of music celebrities to motivate young people to become politically and environmentally active. A native of Olympia, Washington, Jim earned a BS in Environmental Sciences from Washington State University. He currently lives in the gateway community of Gardiner, Montana and resides in one of Xanterra’s two LEED-certified homes, where he monitors the performance of the houses’ many sustainable features.

Doc and Connie Hatfield, of Hatfield’s High Desert Ranch in Brothers, Oregon, are co-founders of Country Natural Beef, and head the organization’s marketing work. Country Natural Beef is a member-operated cooperative of over 70+ ranches producing natural, hormone and antibiotic-free, sustainably grown beef. Country Natural Beef is the only natural beef program in the United States where individual family ranchers are directly responsible to the retail meat manager and the end consumer.

Cylvia Hayes is the founder and Executive Director of 3EStrategies, a non-profit organization working in the areas of sustainable energy, green building and sustainable economic development. Ms. Hayes is an advisor to the Oregon Governor’s Sustainability Board and is a member of the Redmond Economic Development Board. She is a graduate of the League of Conservation Voters Environmental Leadership Institute. She holds a Masters in Environmental Studies degree, with a major in Sustainability and Biodiversity Preservation. A native north westerner, she has lived in Central Oregon for eight years and ran for the Oregon Legislature in 2002.

Nancy Hirsh. Nancy is policy director of the NW Energy Coalition, an alliance of over 100 public interest organizations and progressive utilities from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Nancy directs the Coalition’s efforts to enhance investments in energy conservation, renewable resources, and low income energy services through work with utilities, commissioners, regulators, and legislators. The Energy Coalition promotes an energy future that is reliable and affordable with the least overall cost to society and our natural environmental. Prior to joining NWEC, she spent twelve years in Washington, DC working on national energy policy issues for Environmental Action Foundation and the National Wildlife Federation.

Darcy Hitchcock is president of AXIS Performance Advisors, a management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of sustainable business practices. Darcy has gained a reputation for making this abstract concept easy to understand and put into practice. She, along with her partner, Marsha Willard, designed and facilitates the Implementing Sustainability Certificate Program at Portland State University. She’s authored a 15-booklet Sustainability Series™ that provides step-by-step instructions and advice for the most common tasks associated with implementing sustainability in an organizational context. Darcy does executive briefings and workshops on The Natural Step framework and is a coach for the Oregon Natural Step Network. She acts as an advisor to the Oregon Sustainability Board. Her clients include Metro, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Oregon Environmental Council, Ecotrust, and Con-way Transportation Services. She was formerly the president of the Portland chapter of Business for Social Responsibility. For more information, please go to www.pacifier.com/~axis

James Honey is a Program Officer for Sustainable Northwest, and is the principal responsible for the design of Yainix Ranch Holdings LLC. James has a background in conservation which includes work with the World Wildlife Fund, Mexico, place based research on environmental, cross border issues affecting the Tohono O’odham of SW Arizona and Mexico, and the California Hydropower Reform Coalition. James received a B.A. in History from Stanford University, where his focus was Latin American development models and conservation.

Bob Hoppie has lived in Idaho his entire life. He is a native of Boise, Idaho also known as the City of trees. He attended Borah High School and graduated from Boise State University with a BBA in general business in 1977. He served in the U. S Army in the Republic of Vietnam and in the Idaho National guard, with 23 years of combined service in Army aviation and armor. He began his career in 1977 as a construction manager on office and shopping center developments, with a personal interest in energy efficient design and construction and operations. He has been with the State of Idaho in the State Energy Division since 1980. Mr. Hoppie has served as the Administrator of the Energy Division for the past 16 years. In this capacity he is responsible for the operation and direction for all Energy Division programs and projects. Bob is married to a bookbinder and collector of antiquarian books, and together they have one most excellent daughter.

LeRoy Jarolimek has been involved with wind energy for over 3 years. He installed a 20kW Jacobs wind turbine the spring of 2004 for the purpose of net metering. He spoke at a program put on by the USDA, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation and Idaho Energy Division call the Grant Programs for Wind Development, a tour of seven cities in March of 2004. LeRoy has received three grants through USDA for the development of Renewable Energy through the program provided by the 2002 Farm Bill. At the present time he is involved of putting in a 10 megawatt project on his own farm this year.

Mike Littrel, Avista Corporation. Since 1998 Mike has been heavily involved in promoting sustainable building practices in Eastern Washington and North Idaho. This effort includes making sustainable design presentations to building owners, architects and consultants, as well as, attending national and international sustainable design conferences. Mike is Certified Energy Manager (CEM) with over fifteen years of experience performing energy audits of existing facilities and completing technical reviews and analysis of new construction projects.

Holly Martin, Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP). Holly has worked in the construction and energy efficiency arena for the past 26 years. She began as general contractor in the 1970’s when she built earth sheltered and solar passive houses. She was later an Energy Conservation Specialist with a utility, a building inspector and the Director of a non-profit housing and services program for homeless families in Spokane. She is currently the Housing Services Coordinator for Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP). Her work there has included building a straw bale rental house, being the project manager on several historic buildings and most recently leading the design team on a sustainable new construction apartment complex that has won three national awards to date.

Bruce Millard. Bruce Millard's experience in architecture and construction spans more than thirty years. A pioneer in solar and alternative energy, conservation design, and use of recycled materials in the 1970s on the east coast, Bruce maintains an architectural focus on the design and use of sustainable building materials for personal environments and livable communities. Bruce has practiced architecture in Sandpoint, Idaho since 1985, presenting heading the Studio of Sustainable Design. The Studio offers design and consulting services for building human environments, while protecting the health and beauty of the surrounding natural environment and its inhabitants. He is a founding member of the Spokane based Inland Chapter of the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, and is presently President of the regional Board of Directors. The NWEGB, with eight chapters in the Northwest, is a not-for-profit member based educational organization focused on creating environmentally responsible buildings.

Karla Miller is a Community Liaison at the Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota, where she manages a portfolio of products that help communities reduce poverty. Prior to joining the Foundation, Karla operated a microenterprise program in rural Wisconsin for ten years. The program used a three-prong microenterprise approach: providing capital access, providing training and technical assistance, and creating an environment where microenterprise could survive and thrive. She has been a presenter at AEO on innovative programs at community action agencies and kitchen incubator programming. She holds an MBA and a PhD in business administration and designed a process for "Creating Value-Added Businesses.

Hillary Mizia, New Belgium Brewing Hillary Mizia has been with New Belgium Brewing Company for almost 5 years. During that time she created her current position, Sustainability Outreach Coordinator, which allows her to conduct environmental research, work on environmental education opportunities, and be very involved with the community. Hillary holds a BA in Environmental Education from Prescott College and an MA in Environment and Community from Antioch University, Seattle. Hillary teleworks, plays, and lives with her husband and two dogs in Golden, Colorado.

Ben Packard joined Starbucks Coffee Company in April 1998 as the Environmental Affairs Manager after receiving his MBA and Certificate in Environmental Management from the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to Starbucks, Ben worked in the environmental field for six years for a non-profit, a governmental policy agency, and then privately with a start-up in the recycling industry. Now the Director of Environmental Affairs for Starbucks, Ben is responsible for designing the strategy and developing programs in support of the Company’s commitment to environmental leadership.

Diane Snyder is a fourth generation resident of Wallowa County, living on the ranch that was her grandfathers where she and her husband manage a cow-calf operation. Diane has extensive experience in land use planning, community development, public mediation and state and local government. Diane currently serves as Executive Director of Wallowa Resources, a community based non-profit organization that is working to promote the health of the land and community. Ms. Snyder serves on numerous local, regional, state and national boards and commissions, including the Communities Committee of the Seventh American Forest Congress, the Oregon State Board of Forestry, the Oregon State Progress Board, Wallowa County Natural Resources Advisory Committee and the Wallowa County Rotary Club.

Karen Steer is the Program Officer for several SNW programs, including 'Partnerships for Community Sustainability', Sustainable Forestry Policy and the Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership, a network of wood products businesses dedicated to providing jobs in their communities and using wood sourced in ways that maintain or restore forest health. She works to provide capacity building and marketing services to community nonprofits and rural business entrepreneurs working at the intersection of natural resource conservation and economic development. Prior to working at Sustainable Northwest, she held positions with the Wilderness Society, the National Park Service Social Science Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ community impact assessment for the lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Recovery Feasibility Study, and the Peace Corps in Honduras, where she served for three years as a Protected Areas consultant. Karen holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Allegheny College and a Masters degree in Natural Resources Management from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She serves on the board of the Forest Stewardship Council.

David C.E. Williams, President and CEO ShoreBank Pacific. Dave Williams, 59, is the CEO of ShoreBank Pacific, the first commercial bank in the United States with a commitment to environmentally sustainable community development. He came to this position after two prior careers one in academia and another in manufacturing and 10 years in commercial banking. A physicist with Masters degrees in both Physics and Economics, Williams taught Physics at both the secondary and collegiate level with a focus on energy issues. Moving to the commercial world, he has held progressive positions from MIS director through CFO, manufacturing manager and chief engineer, to CEO in companies in the Oil and Gas, robotics, boat building, and steel fabrication industries. These companies have been both local to the Pacific Northwest and international in scope including boat building in Taiwan at the early stage of its transition to an industrial economy. In commercial banking Williams has worked primarily with small and mid-sized companies in all phases of bank services.

Marsha Willard is co-founder of AXIS Performance Advisors, a consulting firm that has been in business since 1990. AXIS offers management consulting, training and facilitation skills to help organizations find responsible solutions that meet all stakeholder needs -- for owners, customers, employees, the community and the environment. Marsha is a coach for the Oregon Natural Step Network and designer and facilitator of Portland State University’s Certificate in Sustainability program. She has co-authored four popular business books on such topics as teamwork, trust, and quality. AXIS has also produced the Sustainability Series™ booklets showing organizations how to simultaneously improve their financial, social and environmental performance. Marsha has helped organizations in both the public and private sector implement sustainability initiatives. Some of her clients include Washington Department of Ecology, Coastwide Laboratories and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry.

Michaella Wittmann, National Director, Sustainable Design Services, HDR, Inc. As the founder and director of HDR Sustainable Design Services, Michaella Wittmann has been a leader in the green building industry for more than nine years. A strong proponent of matching sustainable strategies to the mission of the building and needs of the client, she has worked closely with a multitude of clients to maximize the operational efficiencies and minimize the environmental impact of their facilities. Her experience includes several Pentagon projects; the State of Iowa’s Sustainable Design Initiative; the GSA’s Sustainable Design Nationwide Training, and sustainable consulting on the Oregon Dept. of Transportation’s OTIA III Bridge Program. Ms. Wittmann was the first architectural firm representative to join the U.S. Green Building Council and was intimately involved in the creation of the LEED Green Building Rating System.

Shelley Zimmer is the Senior Manager of Footwear Sustainability at Nike. Her projects include improving Nike’s footwear packaging, gathering consumer insights related to sustainability and driving sustainable design inspiration at Nike. Shelley was recently named a fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program, which is a national fellowship program that seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting a diverse network of emerging leaders. Before working at Nike, Shelley lived in Boise and worked at Hewlett-Packard and at NatureMark Potatoes in marketing and environmental marketing roles. Shelley received an MBA and a Master’s in Environmental Management at Duke University, where she studied how to move consumers to purchase products with environmental benefits. Her undergraduate degree from Yale University was a BA in environmental history. Shelley is an avid backpacker, mediocre cook and plays on a community soccer league.

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	Keynote Speaker: Janine Benyus Montana resident, nationally renowned speaker and author of “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, Janine Benyus now writes popular books in the life sciences, consults with sustainable business leaders and talks about the genius that surrounds us. Keynote Speaker: Thomas Gladwin Thomas N. Gladwin is the Max McGraw Professor of Sustainable Enterprise and Director of the Erb Environmental Management Institute, jointly in the Ross School of Business and the School of Natural Resources & Environment, at the University of Michigan. He co-directs the University’s “Sustainable Mobility and Accessibility Research & Transformation” project in collaboration with the Ford Motor Company. Tom is a Core Faculty Member in the HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & the Environment Program and directs its Senior Executive Seminars in the U.S. He teaches a range of courses at the University focused on global change, sustainable enterprise and system dynamics. Larry Selzer is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit organization headquartered in metropolitan Washington, D.C. The Conservation Fund protects the nation‚s legacy of land and water resources in partnership with other nonprofit organizations, public agencies, foundations, corporations, and individuals. Through land acquisition, community initiatives, and leadership development, The Fund and its partners demonstrate sustainable conservation solutions emphasizing the integration of economic and environmental goals. The Fund has protected more than 3.5 million acres since 1985. Prior to joining The Fund, Mr. Selzer directed marine research programs out of Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Sustainable Forestry Board and is on the Board of Directors of the Wildlife Habitat Council and the Natural Resources Council of America. Mr. Selzer holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a Bachelors of Science in environmental science from Wesleyan University. PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES Ben Alexander is Associate Director of the SocioEconomics Program at the Sonoran Institute and works out of the Institute's office in Bozeman, Montana. Ben holds a B.A. in History from Tufts University and an M.A. and M.Phil. in American Studies from Yale University. He has been working with the Institute on rural development and conservation for the last 7 years Ben’s most recent publications are The New Frontiers of Ranching: Business Diversification and Land Stewardship (Sonoran Institute, 2000); “Development by Default, Not Design: Yellowstone National Park and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem” in National Parks and Rural Development (Island Press, 2000); “Saving the Family Ranch: New Direction” in Ranching West of the 100th Meridian: Culture Ecology, and Economics (Island Press, 2002); and Prosperity in the 21st Century: The Role of Protected Public Lands (Sonoran Institute, 2004). Richard Beam, MBA, CEP, System Director, Energy Management Services. Providence Health System, has more than 23 years experience in energy related fields. Richard’s extensive background includes energy - mechanical design and applications engineering; construction and contract management, and electric utility account management. He has been the Providence Health System Energy Manager for the last nine years, working with their Facilities Directors, Utility Companies, and Energy Service Providers in Alaska, California, Oregon, and Washington. Richard holds degrees and certificates in mechanical engineering, communications, and business. Providence Health System is a $3 billion revenue-generating, not-for-profit organization which includes hospitals, health plans, clinics, physicians, long term care facilities, low-income housing, assisted living, home care and hospice, advanced medical research and education, and community outreach programs. Today we carry on the mission and good works begun in the West by the Sisters of Providence in the 1850’s. Janine Benyus is a noted science writer. She coined the term biomimicry, where people use nature as an inspiration for how we can make products and provide services. For example, spiders can make a filament stronger than Kevlar and mussels make an adhesive that works under water. They perform these miracles without huge inputs of energy or toxic chemicals and their products are biodegradable. Already designers are taking lessons from lotus leaves, designing paints and surfaces that can clean themselves. Her concepts are transforming how we design products, compute data, heal ourselves, harness energy and feed the world. John Bernardo is the Resource Conservation Manager at Albertsons, Inc., one of the largest U.S. food and drug retailers with 2,300 stores in 31 states. He investigates and implements strategies to reduce waste generation and energy usage; increase efficiency, and minimize operating costs and environmental impact. Albertsons has received national recognition for the initiatives John has spearheaded. Previous positions that John has held include Pollution Prevention Coordinator at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Associate Director of the University of Arizona’s Science Center and Planetarium, Business Assistance Program Manager at the Pima County Department of Environmental Quality, and Science Programs Manager at The Carnegie Science Center. John received a BS in Biology and Environmental Resource Management from Pennsylvania State University and a M.Ed. in Science Education from Clarion University of Pennsylvania. His business philosophy is: “Waste is anything that is not as asset, and nothing but a lack of imagination.” Susan Sokol Blosser is owner and President of Sokol Blosser Winery, Dundee, Oregon. She and Bill Blosser were early pioneers of the Oregon wine industry, clearing the land and planting their first vines in 1971. Sokol Blosser is known for its commitment to the environment, farming organically and seeking sustainable practices throughout their business. In December 2002, Sokol Blosser became the first winery in the world to receive the U.S. Green Building Council’s prestigious LEED certification for its new underground barrel cellar. Susan has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Reed College. Among her many professional and community activities are: founder of the Oregon Wine Marketing Coalition; founder and board member of the Oregon Chapter of Business for Social Responsibility; a director of the Oregon Environmental Council; and member of the Oregon Natural Step Board. In 2004, Susan received an Honorary Doctorate of Public Service from the University of Portland. Jeff Downhour is a principal in the firm of Mosaic Architecture in Helena, Montana. He graduated with honors from the Montana State University School of Architecture in 1990. Before and after graduation, Jeff worked with Don McLaughlin and Place Architecture in Bozeman, Montana. It was at Place that he became involved in the study of green or sustainable architecture primarily as the project architect on the MSU EpiCenter project. This focus on sustainable design has been continued and strengthened at Mosaic Architecture where the firm strives to create intelligent, responsible and regionally responsive design for the Rocky Mountain region. The team at Mosaic has designed several sustainable design focused buildings such as the University of Montana Recreation Center, the Sweetgrass Rest Area, and are currently working on Exworks!, a children’s science center pursuing LEED certification. Jeff is a LEED accredited professional. Mosaic has offices in Helena, Montana and Seattle, Washington. www.mosaicarch.com Tom Eckman is the Manager of Conservation Resources for the Northwest Power and Conservation Council. Mr Eckman has worked for the Council since 1982. His primary responsibilities include the assessment of the energy conservation potential in the Pacific Northwest region, the integration of conservation resources into the resource portfolio for the region’s electric utility system and the development of a regional plan for conservation acquisition. In his current position, he assists the Bonneville Power Administration, the region’s public and private utilities and regulatory agencies develop, implement and evaluate conservation acquisition programs as part of these entities integrated resource planning efforts. Mr. Eckman was the recipient of the Bonneville Power Administrator’s Excellence Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2003 and the American Council for and Energy Efficient Economy’s 2004 Champion of Energy Efficiency Award. Fred Fleming. Columbia Plateau Producers is a small group of progressive family farmers dedicated to sustainable agriculture. Karl Kupers and Fred Fleming founded the organization in 2002 to market their custom-milled, high gluten flour, under the name, Shepherd's Grain. Shepherd's Grain products give conscientious food service providers, bakers, chefs and consumers the opportunity to improve the quality of life in the Pacific Northwest by making environmentally sound farming, economically sustainable. Shepherd's Grain products are certified by The Food Alliance, a third party verifier that assures food is produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. Mark Frankel is an architect and engineering consultant with Paladino & Company, an internationally recognized green building consulting firm. For over 15 years, Mark has advised hundreds of project teams on the design and implementation of sustainable, energy efficient, and climate responsive strategies and technologies for diverse building types across the country. Mark also has extensive experience with LEED. In addition to consulting with project teams on numerous LEED-rated projects, Mark leads Paladino’s technical consulting team to the U.S. Green Building Council. He speaks extensively around the country on a host of green building and LEED-related topics. Dick Gardner is the principal consultant at Bootstrap Solutions, a firm specializing in rural development, economics, strategic planning, and group facilitation. From 1992 through July 2001, Dr. Gardner was the executive director of the Idaho Rural Partnership. For the prior nine years, Dick was a policy economist in the Idaho Division of Financial Management, working on agricultural, natural resource, rural development, and tax issues. Gardner is widely published and has participated in over 250 workshops on rural development. In his role with IRP, Gardner was the organizer and host of three conferences on sustainable development in Twin Falls, Lewiston, and Boise in the early 1990s. He participated in the formation of Intermountain Woodnet, a secondary wood manufacturing network, and helped organize Smallwood ’98, a national conference on sustainable forestry held in Lewiston. With degrees in resource economics from Colorado State, Minnesota, and Michigan State, Dr. Gardner has more education than is normally good for a person. David Gibney. As a Sustainable Design Project Manager for HDR Inc, David Gibney is well experienced with researching and incorporating appropriate sustainable technologies into diverse projects. Specializing in complex facilities such as healthcare centers and advanced research labs, he integrates sustainability with other mission critical solutions such as security, productivity, and functionality. A LEED Accredited Professional since 2001, his client experience includes Sandia National Labs, the Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, the States of California, Iowa and Oregon, and locally, the Christensen Corporation and St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. Mr. Gibney holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Idaho and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Thomas Gladwin was awarded the Max McGraw Professorship of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan. He has received 22 foundation and academic awards for research on ecologically and socially sustainable commerce. He serves on the editorial boards for several journals including the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Gladwin chairs the International Management Division of the Academy of Management as well as its Organizations and the Natural Environment Interest Group. He is also Director of the Corporate Environmental Management program at the University of Michigan. He has authored eight books and over 125 articles. Dr. Gladwin holds a B.S. from the University of Delaware, a M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in International Business and Natural Resource Policy from the University of Michigan. Nathan Good, AIA, is a registered architect, certified interior designer, facilitator of integrated design teams and serves as a green building consultant to architectural and engineering firms throughout the US and Canada. He has developed a specialization at facilitating eco-charrettes as a means to launch integrated design teams. Nathan was the fifth individual in the US to obtain the designation of LEED Accredited Professional from the US Green Building Council and has been involved with dozens of commercial and institutional projects that have achieved, or are in the process of obtaining, LEED Certification. He was named the “2000 Energy Manager of the Year” by the Association of Professional Energy Managers and was honored in 2003 by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance for his advocacy of high-performance buildings in Oregon. In November of 2004, Nathan was profiled by the Sustainable Industries Journal as one of “25 Green Building Leaders in the Northwest”. Jim Hanna joined Xanterra, the primary concessionaire at Yellowstone National Park, in December, 2003 as its first Director of Environmental Affairs. Jim oversees Xanterra’s many progressive environmental initiatives, including Xanterra’s ISO 14001 certified Environmental Management System. He is also a US Green Building Council LEED-accredited professional. Immediately prior to relocating to Yellowstone, he worked as Director of Operations for Teris Environmental in Los Angeles, managing the company’s seven regional offices in North America. In addition, he spent 2 1/2 years in Hollywood running a nonprofit environmental education foundation that used the influence of music celebrities to motivate young people to become politically and environmentally active. A native of Olympia, Washington, Jim earned a BS in Environmental Sciences from Washington State University. He currently lives in the gateway community of Gardiner, Montana and resides in one of Xanterra’s two LEED-certified homes, where he monitors the performance of the houses’ many sustainable features. Doc and Connie Hatfield, of Hatfield’s High Desert Ranch in Brothers, Oregon, are co-founders of Country Natural Beef, and head the organization’s marketing work. Country Natural Beef is a member-operated cooperative of over 70+ ranches producing natural, hormone and antibiotic-free, sustainably grown beef. Country Natural Beef is the only natural beef program in the United States where individual family ranchers are directly responsible to the retail meat manager and the end consumer. Cylvia Hayes is the founder and Executive Director of 3EStrategies, a non-profit organization working in the areas of sustainable energy, green building and sustainable economic development. Ms. Hayes is an advisor to the Oregon Governor’s Sustainability Board and is a member of the Redmond Economic Development Board. She is a graduate of the League of Conservation Voters Environmental Leadership Institute. She holds a Masters in Environmental Studies degree, with a major in Sustainability and Biodiversity Preservation. A native north westerner, she has lived in Central Oregon for eight years and ran for the Oregon Legislature in 2002. Nancy Hirsh. Nancy is policy director of the NW Energy Coalition, an alliance of over 100 public interest organizations and progressive utilities from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana. Nancy directs the Coalition’s efforts to enhance investments in energy conservation, renewable resources, and low income energy services through work with utilities, commissioners, regulators, and legislators. The Energy Coalition promotes an energy future that is reliable and affordable with the least overall cost to society and our natural environmental. Prior to joining NWEC, she spent twelve years in Washington, DC working on national energy policy issues for Environmental Action Foundation and the National Wildlife Federation. Darcy Hitchcock is president of AXIS Performance Advisors, a management consulting firm specializing in the implementation of sustainable business practices. Darcy has gained a reputation for making this abstract concept easy to understand and put into practice. She, along with her partner, Marsha Willard, designed and facilitates the Implementing Sustainability Certificate Program at Portland State University. She’s authored a 15-booklet Sustainability Series™ that provides step-by-step instructions and advice for the most common tasks associated with implementing sustainability in an organizational context. Darcy does executive briefings and workshops on The Natural Step framework and is a coach for the Oregon Natural Step Network. She acts as an advisor to the Oregon Sustainability Board. Her clients include Metro, Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Oregon Environmental Council, Ecotrust, and Con-way Transportation Services. She was formerly the president of the Portland chapter of Business for Social Responsibility. For more information, please go to www.pacifier.com/~axis James Honey is a Program Officer for Sustainable Northwest, and is the principal responsible for the design of Yainix Ranch Holdings LLC. James has a background in conservation which includes work with the World Wildlife Fund, Mexico, place based research on environmental, cross border issues affecting the Tohono O’odham of SW Arizona and Mexico, and the California Hydropower Reform Coalition. James received a B.A. in History from Stanford University, where his focus was Latin American development models and conservation. Bob Hoppie has lived in Idaho his entire life. He is a native of Boise, Idaho also known as the City of trees. He attended Borah High School and graduated from Boise State University with a BBA in general business in 1977. He served in the U. S Army in the Republic of Vietnam and in the Idaho National guard, with 23 years of combined service in Army aviation and armor. He began his career in 1977 as a construction manager on office and shopping center developments, with a personal interest in energy efficient design and construction and operations. He has been with the State of Idaho in the State Energy Division since 1980. Mr. Hoppie has served as the Administrator of the Energy Division for the past 16 years. In this capacity he is responsible for the operation and direction for all Energy Division programs and projects. Bob is married to a bookbinder and collector of antiquarian books, and together they have one most excellent daughter. LeRoy Jarolimek has been involved with wind energy for over 3 years. He installed a 20kW Jacobs wind turbine the spring of 2004 for the purpose of net metering. He spoke at a program put on by the USDA, Idaho Farm Bureau Federation and Idaho Energy Division call the Grant Programs for Wind Development, a tour of seven cities in March of 2004. LeRoy has received three grants through USDA for the development of Renewable Energy through the program provided by the 2002 Farm Bill. At the present time he is involved of putting in a 10 megawatt project on his own farm this year. Mike Littrel, Avista Corporation. Since 1998 Mike has been heavily involved in promoting sustainable building practices in Eastern Washington and North Idaho. This effort includes making sustainable design presentations to building owners, architects and consultants, as well as, attending national and international sustainable design conferences. Mike is Certified Energy Manager (CEM) with over fifteen years of experience performing energy audits of existing facilities and completing technical reviews and analysis of new construction projects. Holly Martin, Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP). Holly has worked in the construction and energy efficiency arena for the past 26 years. She began as general contractor in the 1970’s when she built earth sheltered and solar passive houses. She was later an Energy Conservation Specialist with a utility, a building inspector and the Director of a non-profit housing and services program for homeless families in Spokane. She is currently the Housing Services Coordinator for Spokane Neighborhood Action Programs (SNAP). Her work there has included building a straw bale rental house, being the project manager on several historic buildings and most recently leading the design team on a sustainable new construction apartment complex that has won three national awards to date. Bruce Millard. Bruce Millard's experience in architecture and construction spans more than thirty years. A pioneer in solar and alternative energy, conservation design, and use of recycled materials in the 1970s on the east coast, Bruce maintains an architectural focus on the design and use of sustainable building materials for personal environments and livable communities. Bruce has practiced architecture in Sandpoint, Idaho since 1985, presenting heading the Studio of Sustainable Design. The Studio offers design and consulting services for building human environments, while protecting the health and beauty of the surrounding natural environment and its inhabitants. He is a founding member of the Spokane based Inland Chapter of the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, and is presently President of the regional Board of Directors. The NWEGB, with eight chapters in the Northwest, is a not-for-profit member based educational organization focused on creating environmentally responsible buildings. Karla Miller is a Community Liaison at the Northwest Area Foundation, St. Paul, Minnesota, where she manages a portfolio of products that help communities reduce poverty. Prior to joining the Foundation, Karla operated a microenterprise program in rural Wisconsin for ten years. The program used a three-prong microenterprise approach: providing capital access, providing training and technical assistance, and creating an environment where microenterprise could survive and thrive. She has been a presenter at AEO on innovative programs at community action agencies and kitchen incubator programming. She holds an MBA and a PhD in business administration and designed a process for "Creating Value-Added Businesses. Hillary Mizia, New Belgium Brewing Hillary Mizia has been with New Belgium Brewing Company for almost 5 years. During that time she created her current position, Sustainability Outreach Coordinator, which allows her to conduct environmental research, work on environmental education opportunities, and be very involved with the community. Hillary holds a BA in Environmental Education from Prescott College and an MA in Environment and Community from Antioch University, Seattle. Hillary teleworks, plays, and lives with her husband and two dogs in Golden, Colorado. Ben Packard joined Starbucks Coffee Company in April 1998 as the Environmental Affairs Manager after receiving his MBA and Certificate in Environmental Management from the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to Starbucks, Ben worked in the environmental field for six years for a non-profit, a governmental policy agency, and then privately with a start-up in the recycling industry. Now the Director of Environmental Affairs for Starbucks, Ben is responsible for designing the strategy and developing programs in support of the Company’s commitment to environmental leadership. Diane Snyder is a fourth generation resident of Wallowa County, living on the ranch that was her grandfathers where she and her husband manage a cow-calf operation. Diane has extensive experience in land use planning, community development, public mediation and state and local government. Diane currently serves as Executive Director of Wallowa Resources, a community based non-profit organization that is working to promote the health of the land and community. Ms. Snyder serves on numerous local, regional, state and national boards and commissions, including the Communities Committee of the Seventh American Forest Congress, the Oregon State Board of Forestry, the Oregon State Progress Board, Wallowa County Natural Resources Advisory Committee and the Wallowa County Rotary Club. Karen Steer is the Program Officer for several SNW programs, including 'Partnerships for Community Sustainability', Sustainable Forestry Policy and the Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership, a network of wood products businesses dedicated to providing jobs in their communities and using wood sourced in ways that maintain or restore forest health. She works to provide capacity building and marketing services to community nonprofits and rural business entrepreneurs working at the intersection of natural resource conservation and economic development. Prior to working at Sustainable Northwest, she held positions with the Wilderness Society, the National Park Service Social Science Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ community impact assessment for the lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Recovery Feasibility Study, and the Peace Corps in Honduras, where she served for three years as a Protected Areas consultant. Karen holds a B.S. in Environmental Science from Allegheny College and a Masters degree in Natural Resources Management from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She serves on the board of the Forest Stewardship Council. David C.E. Williams, President and CEO ShoreBank Pacific. Dave Williams, 59, is the CEO of ShoreBank Pacific, the first commercial bank in the United States with a commitment to environmentally sustainable community development. He came to this position after two prior careers one in academia and another in manufacturing and 10 years in commercial banking. A physicist with Masters degrees in both Physics and Economics, Williams taught Physics at both the secondary and collegiate level with a focus on energy issues. Moving to the commercial world, he has held progressive positions from MIS director through CFO, manufacturing manager and chief engineer, to CEO in companies in the Oil and Gas, robotics, boat building, and steel fabrication industries. These companies have been both local to the Pacific Northwest and international in scope including boat building in Taiwan at the early stage of its transition to an industrial economy. In commercial banking Williams has worked primarily with small and mid-sized companies in all phases of bank services. Marsha Willard is co-founder of AXIS Performance Advisors, a consulting firm that has been in business since 1990. AXIS offers management consulting, training and facilitation skills to help organizations find responsible solutions that meet all stakeholder needs -- for owners, customers, employees, the community and the environment. Marsha is a coach for the Oregon Natural Step Network and designer and facilitator of Portland State University’s Certificate in Sustainability program. She has co-authored four popular business books on such topics as teamwork, trust, and quality. AXIS has also produced the Sustainability Series™ booklets showing organizations how to simultaneously improve their financial, social and environmental performance. Marsha has helped organizations in both the public and private sector implement sustainability initiatives. Some of her clients include Washington Department of Ecology, Coastwide Laboratories and Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Michaella Wittmann, National Director, Sustainable Design Services, HDR, Inc. As the founder and director of HDR Sustainable Design Services, Michaella Wittmann has been a leader in the green building industry for more than nine years. A strong proponent of matching sustainable strategies to the mission of the building and needs of the client, she has worked closely with a multitude of clients to maximize the operational efficiencies and minimize the environmental impact of their facilities. Her experience includes several Pentagon projects; the State of Iowa’s Sustainable Design Initiative; the GSA’s Sustainable Design Nationwide Training, and sustainable consulting on the Oregon Dept. of Transportation’s OTIA III Bridge Program. Ms. Wittmann was the first architectural firm representative to join the U.S. Green Building Council and was intimately involved in the creation of the LEED Green Building Rating System. Shelley Zimmer is the Senior Manager of Footwear Sustainability at Nike. Her projects include improving Nike’s footwear packaging, gathering consumer insights related to sustainability and driving sustainable design inspiration at Nike. Shelley was recently named a fellow in the Environmental Leadership Program, which is a national fellowship program that seeks to transform public understanding of environmental issues by training and supporting a diverse network of emerging leaders. Before working at Nike, Shelley lived in Boise and worked at Hewlett-Packard and at NatureMark Potatoes in marketing and environmental marketing roles. Shelley received an MBA and a Master’s in Environmental Management at Duke University, where she studied how to move consumers to purchase products with environmental benefits. Her undergraduate degree from Yale University was a BA in environmental history. Shelley is an avid backpacker, mediocre cook and plays on a community soccer league.				Janine Benyus
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