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CSI Divisions, the organizational standard for products and specifications
LEED Credits, a system that defines the environmental performance of buildings
Green Products, detailed listings for environmentally perferable building products
Projects, project case studies ranging from homes to large buildings

The People Behind BuildingGreen

Alex Wilson - Executive Editor

Alex Wilson Alex Wilson is the Executive Editor of Environmental Building News. For more than 25 years Alex has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction. Prior to starting his own company in 1985 (now BuildingGreen, LLC), he was executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for five years; before that he taught workshops on the construction of solar greenhouses in New Mexico in the late '70s. Alex is author of Your Green Home (New Society Publishers, 2006) and coauthor of the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (New Society Publishers, 9th Edition, 2007) and the Rocky Mountain Institute's comprehensive textbook Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). He has also written hundreds of articles for other publications, including Fine Homebuilding, Architectural Record, Landscape Architecture, the Journal of Light Construction, and Popular Science. Along with writing about design and construction, Alex has written four guidebooks on quiet-water paddling published by the Appalachian Mountain Club--covering all of New England and New York State. (You can order Alex's books online). Alex served on the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council for five years and he is currently a trustee of The Nature Conservancy - Vermont Chapter.

Nadav Malin - Editor

Nadav Malin Nadav Malin is vice president of BuildingGreen, LLC and serves as editor of Environmental Building News, a monthly newsletter on environmentally responsible design and construction and coeditor of the GreenSpec product directory. He is chair of the Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group for the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED™ Rating System, a LEED Faculty Member, and a LEED Accredited Professional. He was a principal author of the Applications Reports for the Environmental Resource Guide that compares the environmental value of different building materials in various applications, and he coauthored the chapter on building materials for Time Saver Standards. He has written numerous article for publications including Architectural Record and The Construction Specifier. Nadav consults and lectures widely on sustainable design, with a particular focus on green materials. In addition to running LEED training workshops, he has taught seminars for various USGBC chapters, CSI chapters, state AIA chapters, and private architecture firms. He also served on the U.S. team for Green Building Challenge, manages the U.S. Department of Energy's High Performance Buildings Database project, and leads the content development team for Web and software resources at BuildingGreen.com.

Peter Yost - Residential Program Manager

Peter Yost Peter Yost is the Residential Program Manager for BuildingGreen, LLC in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has been building, researching, teaching, writing, and consulting on high performance homes for more than twenty years. His expertise stretches from construction waste management and advanced framing to energy efficiency and building durability. Peter has made significant contributions to the work of many leading homebuilding organizations and initiatives—NAHB Researcher Center, Building Science Corporation, 3-D Building Solutions, EEBA, Masco's Environments for Living® program, USGBC's LEED for Homes program, and the US Department of Energy's Building America program. Peter is currently an instructor for the Boston Architectural College's Sustainable Design Certificate program and for the University of Massachusetts Department of Building Materials and Wood Technology program in Amherst. He is a past co-chair and current Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Steering Committee member of the USGBC's LEED for Homes program.

Charlotte Snyder - Circulation Manager

Charlotte Snyder Charlotte rides herd on our subscriber database and, along with Martha, sees that your orders are shipped. She came to Brattleboro in 1970 with the "hopeful commune migration" and stayed on after most of her compatriots turned tail during the first winter (10 foot drifts, worst winter in 50 years, natives delighting in telling us it'd been known to snow in June!) She has been a candle maker, a natural foods chef, and a Montessori teaching assistant. Before coming to EBN, Charlotte also did paste-up (at the tail end of the post-neolithic age of waxing) for a local book design and typesetting company. She loves singing and does so as often as possible with her church choir and two of the area's excellent local choruses.

Tristan Korthals Altes - Managing Editor

Jennifer Atlee - Research Director

Angela Battisto - GreenSpec Manager

Jessica Boehland - Consulting Editor

Ethan Goldman - Webmaster Emeritus

Kasandra Larsen - Customer Relations Associate
kasandra@buildinggreen.com

Kelly Lucas - Lead Web Applications Developer

Rachel Navaro - Editorial Intern

Jim Newman - Director of Online Services

Mark Piepkorn - Associate Editor

Frank Richter - GreenSpec Intern

Philip Scheffer - Web Developer

John Singer - General Manager

Amie Walter - Art Director

Sue Way - Marketing Director

Allyson Wendt - Associate Editor

Michael Wentz - Online Resources Manager

Michael Wilmeth - Editorial Intern
mwilmeth@buildinggreen.com

Jerelyn Wilson - Outreach Director

Toshi Woudenberg - Intern
toshi@buildinggreen.com