BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Prudence Ferreira, LEED AP
Chapter President
Principal, Integral Impact, Inc.
SF and N Bay, CA

Prudence Ferreira is the founder and principal of Integral Impact Inc, a high-performance building, energy and sustainable business consulting firm with a special focus on zero energy buildings. Integral Impact works with commercial and residential property owners, business owners, building professionals, and materials manufacturers to create low-impact businesses and built environments. Areas of special focus include building physics, the Passivhuas energy standard, LEED for wineries, and the creation of corporate environmental management platforms based on LEED EBOM, the Natural Step and ISO 14001. Prudence also serves as President of of Passive House California and her credentials include LEED AP, LEED for Homes Rater, Certified Passive House Consultant, GreenPoint Rater, CA Title 24 Energy Plans Examiner , BPI-trained Building Performance Analyst, HERS + PV Rater, Certified Permaculture Designer and ISO 14001 EMS Lead Auditor.

Bob Massaro

Chapter Vice-President
CEO, Healthy Buildings Management Group, Inc.
Napa, CA

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.
 

William Forrest
Chapter Secretary
Senior Project Manager, Jon Worden Architects
Healdsburg, CA

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.

 

Ellyn Elson
Chapter Treasurer
former C.E.O. of 4 companies
Napa, CA

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
Senior Director, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company
Novato, CA

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 California Sustainability Alliance, the Advisory Board of the Green California Summit, the UL Environmental Advisory Council and the Allianz Climate Change Center of Competency.
A graduate of Northern Illinois University and Sonoma State University’s Green Technology program, Steve currently resides in American Canyon,
California.

Claudia Cleaver, LEED AP
Principal , Morse|Cleaver Architects
Petaluma, CA

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, LEED AP
Principal , Chandler & Chandler Landscape Architects
Napa, CA

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 Country's Bay Area Ridge Trail Committee, member of 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.

Elizabeth Durney
Senior Green Building Consultant, KEMA, Inc
Oakland, CA

Elizabeth Durney, a senior green building consultant with KEMA Sustainable Buildings and Operations, facilitates eco-charrettes, manages rating system development and LEED documentation projects (including LEED-NC, CS, CI, ND and EB).  Ms. Durney teaches educational seminars on green building, LEED, and Climate change, managed the update to the GreenPoint Multifamily and Simple Family Guidelines, Existing Homes and Climate Calculator projects for Build it Green.  Ms. Durney is Vice President of the U.S. Green Building Council's Redwood Empire Chapter and is a member of the USGBC Pacific Regional Council.  Ms. Durney holds a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science from Macalester College.

Paul Klassen
COO, Coastand Civil Engineering Inc
Santa Rosa, CA

Tom LeDuc
President, LeDuc & Dexter, Inc
Santa Rosa, CA

Tom LeDuc has been involved in the plumbing industry since 1966.  He is the president of LeDuc & Dexter, Inc. Plumbing, Heating and Fire Protection in Santa Rosa, California.  He is a Certified Green Building Professional, a trainer for Affiliated International management, a Certified Green Plumber, and a Certified Green Plumbers instructor.  Tom is a two time President Elect of the Plumbing Heating Cooling Contractors Association of California.  Tom has a passion for the conservation side of the industry and was named Green Plumber of the year b Green Plumbers USA in 2009.

Peter J. Lescure, P.E.
President, Lescure Engineers, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA

Peter J. Lescure, PE is President and Principal Civil Engineer of Lescure Engineers, Inc., which he founded in 1979.  He is also a former general engineering contractor.  Lescure Engineers offers a full range of planning, land surveying, civil and environmental resource engineering.  The firm has a reputation for innovative and sustainable wastewater systems ranging from individual onsite sytesm, winery and food process wastewater systems, and collection, treatment and water reutilization systems for small communities.

Mr. Lescure is District Engineer for the Graton Community Services District.  He has been working with the Graton committee since 1997, helping with the District formation process and providing engineering for upgrade of the existing wastewater facility to tertiary treatment.  Construction is scheduled for summer 2010.  One of the firm's community wastewater projects, the Odd Fellows Recreation Club Watewater Management Project, constructed in 2000 was awarded a CELSOC Engineering Excellence Award.

Mr. Lescure has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and graduate studies in urban planning at San Jose State University.  Prior  establishing Lescure Engineers, Mr Lescure was employed by the City of Palo Alto in traffic engineering and transportation planning and by URS Corporation in San Mateo in environmental analysis and planning.

Wayne Miller
President/CEO Earthwise Corporation
Santa Rosa, CA

Kirstie Moore, LEED AP
Development Manager, Codding Enterprises
Rohnert Park, CA

Kirstie, is the Development Manager for Sonoma Mountain Village, a Codding Enterprises Community, Which is the first development in North America to be accepted into the prestigious One Planet Community program.  Kirstie plays a key role in the development and implementation of 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.  Prior to joining Codding Enterprises Kirstie spent the last 15 years in the Residential Homebuilding Industry.  Kirstie is a LEED Accredited Professional, Certified Green Building Professional, serves on the Advisory Board of the Northern California Indoor Air Quality Association and is a founding board member of the California Infill Builders Association.

CHAPTER ADVISORY COUNCIL

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 a 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 a author of The Sustainability Revolution: Portrait of a Paradigm Shift and co-author and 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.

Bruce Hammon, LEED AP has been a General contractor since 1980.  He is CEO & General Manager of Hammond & Company, a construction services and development company which constructs high quality residential and commercial projects throughout the northern Bay Area region.  A consistent focus of the company throughout this time has been on identifying and utilizing construction technologies and practices which minimize impact on the environment, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency, resource conservation, and durability.  His projects have been featured in numerous publications and he has been featured speaker on Green Building for many conferences and professional organizations.  Mr. Hammond was the founding Chairman of the US Green Building Council - Redwood Empire Chapter, and is currently an active member of the board.  He is one of the founding faculty of the yearlong "Green Building Professional Certificate Program" at Sonoma State University not  in its 5th year, and is on the Certification Board of "the Green Advantage," a national training program for green building professionals.  He is the solar energy specialist for the City of Cotati's Design Review Board and has been a past planning commissioner there where he was instrumental certifying the first LEED building int he North Bay, and in establishing Cotati's Sustainable Building Program".  Bruce has a passion for green building, biodynamic gardening, and is a lover of wild places.  www.hammondandcompany.com
 

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 Dolan believes that business leaders can help make a better world, and he sees Mendocino County, California, as fertile ground to grow this vision.  During his 27 years at Fetzer Vineyards, 12 as president, he led a transformation that put the company at the forefront of organic viticulture and sustainable business.  With the creation of Mendocino Wine Company (MWC), a partnership of the Dolan and Thornhill families, the mantle of leadership in sustainable winegrowing shifted from Fetzer to MWC, while remaining cradled in the open, creative atmosphere of Mendocino County.  “We want to make a  difference in this community,” says Paul, “and we will.” Paul’s goal is to make Mendocino Wine Company a model for the wine business.  In turn, he is determined to develop the wine industry as a model for all agriculture, worldwide. Paul resides in Healdsburg, California with his wife Diana and daughter Sassicaia.  He spends leisure time in his Mendocino County vineyards and on horseback at Dark Horse Ranch.

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.

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.