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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Chapter Preisident Prudence is a certified Permaculture Designer. LEED AP, CGBP, and currently working on CSBA certification through the Natl. Sustainable Building Advisor program. She will also be seeking certification for home energy rating and building performance analysis. She founded Greenprint Sustainability Consulting in 2006, and pioneered and directed the Corporate Social Responsibility program at Amy's Organics. In 2007, Prudence ws chosen to serve on the standard review committee for "ANSI Sustainable Agriculture Practice Standard for Food, Fiber, and Biofuel Crop Producers and Agricultural Product Handlers and Processors" (SCS-001). She spearheaded efforts within the review committee to organize a coalition to support organic standards.
Ellyn Elson Ellyn brings valuable experience working with over a dozen non-profit organizations, and brings an extremely strong financial sense to those boards she has worked with. As National President for the ADAF, she helped raise over $2.0M in scholarships and promoted an annual campaign. Beginning her career as a dietitian has led to her desire to green the food service and healthcare industries. Ellyn and her husband are currently building the first LEED Home in Napa. She has been very active in the chapter, and has recently agreed to act as Treasurer. The Redwood Empire Chapter board is looking forward to her continued financial advise and directing of fundraising.
Stephen G Bushnell, CPCU, ARM
Steve is a Senior Director at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company in Novato California, responsible for development of innovative new products, services and information for emerging industries. He joined Fireman's Fund in 2004, bringing more than 30 years of insurance industry experience having held underwriting, marketing and management positions in a number of companies. In 2006 he developed the first Green Building Insurance Coverage in the industry. Steve has spoken on the unique risks of green buildings and sustainable business at several conferences including NEOCON, GreenBuild, Ceres, TFM, UCLA, University of Wisconsin, Ohio State, Green$ense, Greening the Heartland, World Wildlife Fund Climate Savers Summit and BOMA. He serves on the Steering Committee of the CaliforniaSustainability Alliance, the Advisory Board of the Green California Summit, the UL Environmental Advisory Council and the Allianz Climate Change Center of Competency.
Claudia has been a principal at Morse & Cleaver Architects designing award-winning green buildings since 1982 and a registered architect since 1980. She has worked on a wide range of building types, including low-cost housing, co-housing villages, sacred buildings, resorts, office and straw bale and rastra homes. Claudia is a LEED AP, a permaculture designer, and has studied Feng Shui and Sacred Architecture/Geometry. She is a long-time member of Architect Designer Planners for Social Responsibility and a founding member and past board president of the Redwood Empire Chapter of the USGBC.
Jennifer Chandler is a native Californian, raised in the Napa Valley. She received her B.A. from Reed College in Oregon and her Masters degree in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University. Jennifer is managing partner of Chandler & Chandler Landscape Architects, with offices in Napa. The firm works on a wide range of projects, including estate residential, hospitality, commercial, and park designs. Jennifer has a particular interest in community projects which allow local residents access to the larger landscape via parks and trails - projects for which she frequently volunteers her time and effort. Her various professional and community affiliations include: chair of Napa County’s Bay Area Ridge Trail Committee, member of the Napa Valley Vine Trail Engineering Committee, California Horticultural Invasives Prevention Steering Committee, and Friends of the Napa River Urban Riverfront Design Review Committee, among others. She is a LEED and ARCSA Accredited Professional and a Certified Green Builder. In addition, Jennifer is also intermittent lecturer at U.C. Davis in the Landscape Architecture department and an avid cyclist, hiker, photographer and gardener.
Bob Massaro CEO, Healthy Buildings Management Group, Inc. Bob has been the President and C.E.O. of a design / build firm since 1981. The firm built their first green project was in 1983, and in 1999 committed to 100% green and healthy buildings. He has gained executive management responsibilities since 1981, and has designed and/or built almost 200 projects throughout California. Bob has recently mobilized both the chapter and Sustainable Napa to enact the city's first green building standards. He has been working with the chapter leadership for years, and last year become a very active participant.
Del Nordby Del has 25 years in the construction industry, primarily commercial. He is president and owner of Nordby Construction and Nordby Development, and is a LEED AP.
William Forrest William has more than 20 years of experience in the architectural industry, and has received numerous design awards. He has worked with both the private and public sectors, and has been elected to several nonprofit boards as financial advisory and oversight. He hopes to create new innovative synergies between sometimes disparate entities within the building profession. CHAPTER ADVISORY COUNCIL
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Prudence Ferreira, LEED AP
Paul Klassen
Andres Edwards is an educator, author, media designer and sustainability consultant. He is founder and president of EduTracks a firm specializing in developing education programs and consulting services on sustainable practices for green building and business initiatives. His work includes developing energy management and sustainability plans as well as training and awareness programs for municipalities, colleges and property managers. Andres is author of The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift and co-author with Robert Apte of Tibet: Enduring Spirit, Exploited Land. Andres holds a BA degree in Geography from the University of Colorado; an MPS in Media Studies from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program and an MA in Humanities and Leadership/Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community from New College of California, Santa Rosa.
David Eisenberg is co-founder and Director of the Development Center for Appropriate Technology (DCAT) in Tucson, AZ. His three decades of building experience range from the on-site troubleshooting of the construction of the cover of Biosphere 2 to building a $2 million structural concrete house, a hypoallergenic structural steel house, and masonry, wood, adobe, rammed earth, and straw bale structures. For over a decade David has led the effort to create a sustainable context for building codes. He served two terms on the Board of the U.S. Green Building Council where he founded and chairs the Building Codes Committee. He was vice-chair of the ASTM E-06.71 Subcommittee on Sustainability for Buildings for five years. David has presented workshops, seminars, keynote addresses and lectures at dozens of international, national and regional conferences and lectured at universities in the U.S. and abroad. David is on the Advisory Board of Environmental Building News. He is co-author of The Straw Bale House book and has written dozens of published articles, forewords, book chapters and papers.
Geof Syphers, PE, LEED® AP, is Chief Sustainability Officer for Codding Enterprises, a Sonoma County developer and property management firm. He manages the company’s environmental and social initiatives and guides the planning of Sonoma Mountain Village, a deeply sustainable mixed-use community. Sonoma Mountain Village is the first development in North America to be accepted into the prestigious One Planet Communities program, positioning it at the leading edge of the international sustainability movement. The 200 acre community is a zero carbon, zero waste development in California with a philosophy centered on restoration instead of minimizing harm. Mr. Syphers is responsible for the plan to reduce the ecological footprint of the entire 1900-home community from a U.S. average of 5.3 down to a truly sustainable, one planet level by 2020. His efforts are monitored by WWF International and BioRegional and are reported to the United Nations as part of the Kyoto Protocol update process. He brings practical experience earned as the founding director of the Green Building Services Group at KEMA, an international consulting firm. Under his directorship, KEMA consulted on 160 projects, from affordable housing to airports, including 40 LEED buildings. He is a licensed mechanical engineer and holds a B.S. in Applied Physics and an M.S. in Energy Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author. Starting at age 20, he dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. His practice has included starting and running ecological businesses, writing and teaching about the impact of commerce on living systems, and consulting with governments and corporations on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy.
Pete Gang AIA, LEED AP, has been a licensed general building contractor since 1985 and a licensed architect since 1991. His firm, Common Sense Design, specializes in spirited green architecture and provides green consulting on residential and commercial projects. Over the course of 20-plus years, Common Sense Design has designed over two hundred residential and commercial projects, utilizing a wide range of conventional and alternative building systems, energy- and resource-efficiency strategies, and other integrated green-building approaches. In addition to his ongoing responsibilities as a practicing architect, green-building consultant, and teacher, he has given presentations to a variety of audiences on topics related to green building, including Bioneers; Real Goods’ Institute for Solar Living; Agilent Corporation; Redwood Empire Chapters of the AIA, the CSI, and ASCE; West Coast Green; and city councils and chambers of commerce in the North Bay region. Mr. Gang co-founded the Redwood Empire Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council in 2001 and has been an active board member for the last seven years. He was one of the founding faculties of the Green Building Professional Certificate Program at Sonoma State University where he has taught for the past five years.
Peter Bruck is currently the Building Official for the City of Rohnert Park, California. Prior to entering the building code profession 14 years ago, Peter spent 18 years as an “environmentally friendly” general contractor. He is certified as a Building Official through the International Code Council, is a LEED Accredited Professional through the U.S. Green Building Council, and has an M.A. in Sustainable and Energy Efficient Communities from Sonoma State University. He was the City’s staff member responsible for coordinating the development of Rohnert Park’s Green Building Ordinance that became effective in Rohnert Park on July 1, 2007. In the last few years, Peter has been a speaker at a variety of conferences and events including West Coast Green, the League of California Cities, the International Code Council annual business meeting, and the Silicon Valley Leadership Forum. He teaches green building classes for the California Building Officials, Arizona Building Officials, and the International Code Council. Peter is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Code Committee as well as the California Building Standards Commission’s Green Building Code Advisory Committee, which assists in the development of the new California Green Building Code.
Sim Van der Ryn is a visionary, author, educator, public leader, and internationally distinguished pioneer in ecological design. For more than 40 years, Sim has been at the forefront of integrating ecological principles into the built environment, creating multi-scale solutions driven by nature’s intelligence. He has served as California’s first energy-conscious State Architect, authored seven influential books, and won numerous honors and awards for his leadership and innovation in architecture & planning. Sim’s collaborative approach and meta-disciplinary accomplishments help show the way to an evolving planetary era that values both the integrity of ecological systems and the quality of life.Chapter Information
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