As Research Director at BuildingGreen, I dabble in - or dive headlong into - a wide range of BuildingGreen internal and collaborative projects, and am part of the team working to make the GreenSpec product directory as robust as possible. I have every intention of making my bio personalized, but there are too many other fun things to do than talk about myself – so in the mean time:
Through her work with BuildingGreen, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Rocky Mountain Institute, and Demand Management Institute, Jennifer has conducted research and analysis in a variety of sustainability topics including green building, commercial and industrial energy efficiency, electronics recycling, and the economics of toxics use reduction. Her activities at BuildingGreen include providing technical and research support for GreenSpec, EBN, and other BuildingGreen activities, as well as collaborating on projects such as the ASID/USGBC ReGreen Guidelines and a policy white paper for the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. A primary focus of hers has been developing and clarifying standards to assess the environmental sustainability of products, processes, and organizations. To this end, her activities at BuildingGreen include researching and updating product criteria for GreenSpec, and providing technical support to the Construction Specification Institute (CSI) on GreenFormat. Jennifer has a dual MS from MIT in Technology Policy and Material Science & Engineering, and a BS in Environmental Science from Brown University.

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.
I am the Product Editor here at BuildingGreen. Along with a several team members I help select products and write listings for our GreenSpec guide. I also write an occasional product review for Environmental Building News and for GreenSource. I came to BuildingGreen last October from Green Builder magazine, where I was a feature writer and associate editor. My background is eclectic, or transient, depending on your point of view. I grew up in a city consumed by a Stockholm syndrome-like attachment to our home industry — one of the largest chemical companies in the world. Personally, I never identified with dioxin production, so after graduation from high school I traveled to New Mexico and spent a month with Outward Bound hiking, climbing, and whitewater rafting in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains outside Taos. The experience opened my eyes, and that fall I moved to the sparsely populated shore of Lake Superior in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I received a BA in psychology and an MA in English/composition from Northern Michigan University and became an avid, and sometimes rabid, runner and Nordic skier. I have traveled and worn a lot of hats since then, including working as a freelance writer, kitchen manager, and trim carpenter. I spent years trail running in the mountains outside Boulder Colorado, where as a carpenter I was exposed to the best and worst the building industry has to offer. My love of the outdoors and belief in leading a healthy, simple life with minimal impact give me a sense of continuity with my past and future, but I feel fortunate to be grounded by my wife and family and by the ideals of the dedicated, intelligent, and conscientious crew here at BuildingGreen.
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I am an associate editor here at BuildingGreen, which means that I contribute to and edit Environmental Building News, edit case studies for our High Performance Buildings Database, and work on other projects as they come along. I also receive, organize, and catalog all of the books that come through the door, and review a good chunk of them for the newsletter and our online bibliography.