Edward Mazria, AIA
Edward Mazria is an internationally recognized architect with a long and distinguished career. His architecture and planning projects span over a thirty-year period and each employs a cutting-edge environmental approach to its design.
His published material includes technical papers,
articles for professional magazines, and a number of published works including
The Passive Solar Energy Book published by Rodale Press. His most recent article
It’s the Architecture Stupid! published in Solar Today Magazine, and
subsequent article Turning Down the Global Thermostat published in Metropolis
Magazine, outline his strategy for addressing today’s most pressing
global challenge, climate change
His buildings have been published in Architecture, Progressive Architecture,
Metropolis, Architectural Record, Architectural Digest, Process, Kenchiku
Bunka, Public Garden, Solar Today, Texas Architect, The Wall Street Journal,
The New Mexico Business Journal, and the New York Times.
Mr. Mazria has lectured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, and has taught architecture at the University of New Mexico, University of Oregon, University of Colorado-Denver, UCLA and University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico.
Read Ed's Published
Articles:
+ It’s the Architecture Stupid!
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Turning Down the Global Thermostat
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The Building You're In Fuels Global
Warming
David Adlai Adamson is the founder and manager of EcoBuild LLC, a broker, manufacturer’s representative and consultant. EcoBuild develops suites of green products sold in flooring stores and other retailers. The firm also consults on the creation of high performance larger buildings and developments, and helps to integrate a variety of “green” materials into the specification and to broker these materials during construction. The Company also provides education, helping building and design professionals to understand environmental concerns. In sum, EcoBuild works to transform building development processes and markets to increase their environmental sensitivity and economic performance.
David is a LEED accredited professional, a past president
of Planetary Solutions Inc., a retailer of environmentally sound interior
finishes, and was co-founder and general manager of the Building Products
Division of Eco-Products, a building materials retailer based in Boulder,
Colorado. In his efforts to improve the quality and health of buildings and
to reduce their environmental impact, David helped to establish the Green
Builder Program (over 4,000 homes recognized), and the Built Green Communities
Program of the Metro Denver Home Builders Association. David is a graduate
of Harvard University, and a former employee of The Nature Conservancy, Volunteers
for Outdoor Colorado (founding executive director), the Keystone Science School,
and Outward Bound.
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Paula Baker-Laporte graduated from the University of Toronto, School of Architecture in 1978. She has headed wide-ranging residential architectural practice based in Santa Fe, New Mexico since 1986. Since 1992, Paula has dedicated her practice to the precepts of environmentally sound and health enhancing architecture. She has lectured and published extensively on this topic. She is the primary author of Prescriptions for a Healthy House, Inword Press, 1997 and a 2nd edition, New Society Publishers 2001. She is a contributing author to several other books including, A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living edited by Gregory Cajete, Clear Light Publishers, 1999, The Healthy House 4th Edition, by John Bower, The Healthy House Institute, 2001 and The Art of Natural Building, by Catherine Wanek, Joseph F. Kennedy Michael G. Smith, New Society Publishers, 2001
Paula’s passion in the last few years has
been her collaborative work with husband/natural builder Robert Laporte. “Econests”
are the compact, ecologically based, healthy homes that they design and build.
Econest projects have recently been featured in several magazines including
“Natural Home”, “Fine Homebuilding”, “Residential
Architect”, “Organic Style Magazine” and “Yoga Journal”.
Econest collaborations have been built in California, Oregon, Arizona, Colorado
and New Mexico.
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Thomas
J. Dean
Thomas J. Dean is an Associate Professor of Strategy and
Entrepreneurship at the Leeds School of Business at University of Colorado
at Boulder. He serves the Leeds School as Anderson Professor of Strategy and
Entrepreneurial Development and Faculty Director of the Deming Center for
Entrepreneurship. Professor Dean holds a B.S. degree in environmental management
from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.B.A. from Oklahoma State
University. His Ph.D. is in the field of Strategic Management from the University
of Colorado. He teaches courses in sustainable venturing, and is co-founder
of Climate Change Strategies, an executive education initiative addressing
the business response to a carbon constrained world. He has been teaching
and writing on the topic of sustainable business for over a decade, and has
consulted on curricular and sustainability issues in the U.S., Europe, and
Asia.
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Kristi Ennis is an architect, senior associate, and sustainable
design director at Boulder Associates, Inc, an architecture and interior design
firm specializing in healthcare and senior living. A graduate from the University
of Illinois with a Master of Architecture degree and 15 years experience in
healthcare design, she also recently completed an immersion course in sustainable
design at the ECOSA Institute and is a LEED accredited professional. Kristi
worked as the project architect/ project manager for medical architecture
on the new LEED Silver Certified Boulder Community Foothills Hospital.
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Doug is the founder of Graybeal Architects, LLC, a unique architectural firm focusing on environmentally friendly design. The firm’s design process unites individualized client goals with distinctive architecture to create functional spaces that have a reduced impact on the environment and personal health. Design with a conscience. Graybeal Architects LLC provides architectural services from conceptual design to construction documents and through construction.
Doug strives to use his twenty-eight years of professional
experience to create efficient architecture that is in harmony with its surroundings.
He is constantly seeking new avenues to improve the “green” design
and building process. Doug holds a Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Science
in Building Construction, Masters of Environmental Planning and is a U.S.
Green Building Council LEED Accredited Professional. He is a former principal
with the award winning firm of Cottle Graybeal Architects Ltd. He has lectured
on energy efficient design and his work has been published in local and trade
magazines. His continuing involvement in community activities and non-profit
organizations reflects his drive to create better human environments.
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Stephen
Kanipe
Stephen Kanipe began working with Aspen and
Pitkin County in March 1989 and was appointed Chief Building Official in May
1995. He directed the development of the Aspen/Pitkin Energy Conservation
Code, the first energy code in the country to regulate energy use outside
of the building envelope (snow melt, pools, spas), which has been in use since
1996. In 1999 he was appointed by the International Conference of Building
Officials Board of Directors to serve on the International Energy Conservation
Code Development Committee and served a chair in 2003. In 1999 Stephen was
appointed to the Board of Directors of the Colorado Chapter of the International
Code Council, a statewide organization of code officials and industry representatives.
Stephen’s community work includes a partnership with the Community Office
of Resource Efficiency (CORE) to develop the City of Aspen Efficient Building
Program; a point based tool that encourages the use of recycled materials,
advanced IAQ and HVAC systems, engineered framing components and solar design.
As President of the Aspen Waldorf Foundation Board of Directors, Stephen led
a private school initiative that constructed four buildings totaling about
22,500 square feet of straw bale construction complemented with solar hot
water, photovoltaics, natural finishes and recycled materials.
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Alexis
Karolides
Principal, team leader of Green Development Services at Rocky Mountain Institute,
received her BA in physics magna cum laude from Carleton College where she
was recognized for research into solar/alternative energy systems. Following
a Richter Fellowship in Germany, where she studied post-war architecture,
she completed a masters of architecture at Rice University.
Her recent consulting projects for GDS have included the Monsanto life-sciences
incubator building, spec homes being developed by Hines Developers, various
projects with the Aspen Skiing Company, and a monastery in Tibet. She has
conducted numerous integrated design workshops, and addressed a variety of
audiences on green design. A registered architect with six years' commercial
experience, she was previously the sustainability manager for the architectural
firm Sussman Tisdale Gayle, and before that researched sustainable staff housing
for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and interned at the Texas Governor's
Energy Office. While in Austin, Texas, she was also an adjunct faculty member
at Austin Community College in the Building Construction Technology Department,
and she was a member of the local AIA chapter's Sustainability Committee and
the Austin Sustainable Building Coalition.
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Joe
Lstiburek, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng.
Joe Lstiburek, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng., is a principal of Building
Science Corporation. He is a forensic engineer who investigates building failures
and is internationally recognized as an authority on moisture related building
problems and indoor air quality.
Dr. Lstiburek has appeared on PBS NOVA ("Can buildings make you sick?") and is the author of numerous books and technical papers on building science, indoor air quality and durability. He is the best selling author of the Builder Guides and has over 50 technical and journal articles to his credit. He has conducted forensic investigations and served as an expert witness on building failures all over the U.S.
He is one of the world's foremost authorities on energy efficient construction techniques and heads one of the four Building America program teams for the U.S. Department of Energy. He is the author of the U.S. DOE Handbook on Moisture Control and a special contributor to the EPA guidance document on Building Air Quality: A Guide for Building Owners and Facility Managers.
He recently concluded a 75 city tour on behalf of
the Environmental Protection Agency and the Building Owners and Managers (BOMA)
conducting seminars on Preventing and Mitigating Indoor Air Quality Problems.
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Alison
Mason
Alison Mason, whose work in the field of solar energy
was recognized in 2004 by the American Solar Energy Society with the first
ever “Women in Solar Energy” (WISE) award, is the principal of
SunJuice, a solar consulting and design firm. Alison earned her B.S. in Materials
Science from Rice University and her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, with
an emphasis on solar thermal technologies, from Colorado State University
in 1993.
Alison has served as the Chair of the Fort Collins Electric Board for the
past three years and, in that capacity, lead the development of the City’s
Renewable Energy Policy – the most progressive policy of its kind in
the state. Alison coordinates a Tribal Energy program for Trees, Water, and
People; lectures to building professionals on the implementation of solar
technologies; and is also the director of SolarBound, the Million Solar Roofs
Initiative for Northern Colorado. In 2002, Alison successfully lead an effort
to establish the Northern Colorado Renewable Energy Society – an ASES
subchapter that advocates the use of renewable energy technologies through
outreach and education. Alison’s work with solar heating on Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation will be featured in the Spring Edition of the Worldwatch
Institute Journal.
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Molly
Mayo
Molly Mayo is a Senior Mediator at Meridian Institute
in Dillon, Colorado. Meridian is a non-profit organization that helps decision
makers and diverse stakeholders solve some of society's most contentious public
policy and natural resource challenges with an eye toward the integration
of environmental, economic and social priorities. Ms. Mayo has served as a
convener, facilitator and collaborative process designer for over 10 years.
During that time, she has focused on providing neutral, third-party facilitation
and conflict resolution services to complex problems associated with natural
resource management, environmental cleanup, sustainable business practices
and public health issues. Ms. Mayo and her colleagues at Meridian work at
the local, national and international levels to design, coordinate and facilitate
multi-party decision-making processes, effective communications systems and
strategic planning processes.
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George
McDonald
George McDonald with CRM Deconstruction provides resource efficient demolition
and construction waste recycling services in Colorado since 2000. Volume reduction
processes include shredding, grinding, crushing, screening and sorting at
the demolition site, converting over 90% of total construction waste into
marketable and reusable building materials.
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Robert
Sardinsky, LC, IESNA, Principal
"Sardo" founded Rising Sun in 1987 to provide
turnkey lighting consulting and project implementation services. His work
focuses on creating lighting that enhances aesthetics and productivity while
minimizing our impact on the planet. Sardos passion is creating luminous environments
that lift the spirit. He is noted for his pioneering work in tracking and
analyzing state-of-the-art lighting technology developments and for incorporating
these into new construction and retrofit designs. His clients include Fortune
1000 companies, commercial, industrial and residential clients throughout
the U.S. He has worked on over 50 million square feet of projects through
his 24 year career and has authored strategic lighting technology and marketplace
reports for the lighting industry, utility industry and environmental advocacy
groups. He lectures nationally on new lighting developments and has also served
on the test committee for the National Council on Qualifications for the Lighting
Profession.
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Auden Schendler is Director of Environmental Affairs at
Aspen Skiing Company where he is responsible for reducing the resort's environmental
impact. Previously a research associate at Rocky Mountain Institute, Auden
has worked as an EMT, Planning and Zoning Commissioner, High School math and
English teacher, Outward Bound Instructor and residential energy auditor.
He has written about sustainable business, mountaineering, and life in the
West for Harvard Business Review, the L.A. Times, Salon.com, The Journal of
Industrial Ecology, Green @ Work, High Country News, Mountain Gazette and
the Denver Post. He earned his BA in Biology and Environmental Studies from
Bowdoin College. Contact him at aschendler@aspensnowmass.com.
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Annette
Stelmack, Associates III
Associates III is recognized as the premier Green Design
firm in Colorado and was named One of the Best Places to Work by Interiors
& Sources magazine in 2003. Authors of Turning Green, co-published with
ASID, they are founding members of USGBC’s Colorado Chapter.
ANNETTE STELMACK, Design
Director at Associates III, was also a speaker at EnvironDesign 4 and 6. In
2001, she was interviewed for the PBS series, American Architectural Review,
regarding Green Design Education. Since 2002, she has chaired the U.S. Green
Building Council Colorado Chapter.
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Since August 1994, Randy Udall has directed the Community
Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), a nonprofit organization in western
Colorado.
In the Roaring Fork Valley, CORE provides community energy education through
forums, presentations, newspaper and magazine articles. Working closely with
government entities, we develop public policy favoring more sustainable energy
solutions.
CORE promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency in partnership with Holy Cross Energy, a rural electric utility serving 50,000 customers. Holy Cross now leads U.S. utilities in the percentage of its customers who buy wind power, and its wind program will keep 600 million pounds of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere over the next 20 years.
In 1998, CORE started the first “solar production
incentive” program in the United States; the program pays customers
who install PV systems 25¢/kilowatt-hour for their energy. In 2000, CORE
started the world’s first Renewable Energy Mitigation Fund, which has
collected $2,00,0000 in building permit fees to install renewable energy systems.
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Johnny Weiss
Johnny Weiss is co-founder and Executive Director of Solar Energy International (SEI), a non-profit organization based in Carbondale Colorado with the mission to help others learn about Renewable Energy. SEI is accredited by the Institute for Sustainability (ISP) to offer training that can lead to PV certification by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP).
Johnny is a Master PV Trainer and a licensed general contractor
specializing in solar and natural home construction. He has over twenty years
experience teaching the practical applications of renewable energy technologies
including solar, wind, and water power. As an Associate Professor for ten
years at Colorado Mountain College, he helped develop and teach a hands-on
vocational training program in solar thermal, photovoltaics, energy efficiency
and construction skills. Johnny works with Native American Train the Trainers
programs, and in international sustainable development programs that help
transfer renewable energy technologies to the developing world. Johnny is
principle author of SEI's new textbook, Photovoltaics - Manual of Design &
Installation.
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Jarrell
Wenger
Jarrell holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s
degrees in Mechanical Engineering. In his 20 years in the built industry,
Jarrell has focused on a broad range of mechanical system and building performance
issues from energy efficiency to indoor air quality (IAQ) and has most recently
focused on building commissioning and peer review as vehicles to deliver stellar
building performance. Jarrell’s broad commissioning experience includes
buildings of virtually all types, from schools to condominiums, residence
halls, office buildings, research laboratories, hospitals, museums and sports
facilities, including numerous central plants for heating, cooling and cold
storage. He has commissioned LEED projects at all certification levels, starting
with USGBC’s pilot program and is currently commissioning a project
for the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, one of only a handful of projects
seeking the exclusive Platinum certification.
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Eric
Westerhoff
Eric Westerhoff is a professional electrical engineer and the owner of Innovative
Energy in Breckenridge Colorado. After graduating from Rochester Institute
of Technology in micro-electronic engineering, Eric worked 5 years in the
semiconductor industry and started his own company offering renewable energy
sales, service and consultation in the Rocky Mountain Region. In addition
to running his own business, Eric teaches college mathematics and is an instructor
of solar workshops for Solar Energy International.
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Joe
Whitehouse
Regional Vice President
Intrawest Placemaking
Joe received his Bachelors of Environmental Design from North Carolina State University in 1978. He began his career by partnering in a small design/build firm working on residential and light commercial projects in North Carolina in the late 1970’s and continued in the Commercial Construction Industry into the mid 80’s.
Mr. Whitehouse made an easy transition into Real Estate Development in 1986 and started his own consulting firm representing Owners, Developers, Asset Managers & Lenders in more than 21 Eastern states providing fee-based development services. After 8 years as President of CMS, Mr. Whitehouse went on to pursue a position with Intrawest as Director of Development from 1999-2001 and then was promoted to Vice President of Resort Development at Intrawest Resort in Snowshoe, West Virgina.
In April 2003, Mr. Whitehouse was transferred to Denver,
Colorado where, in December 2003, was promoted and accepted the position of
Regional Vice President of Resort Development, managing the Colorado regional
office. In this role, Joe successfully oversees the strategies for the real
estate businesses at Copper, Keystone, Snowmass, Three Peaks and Winter Park
resorts.
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Julie Ann Woods, A.I.C.P./MLA, is the Community Development Director for the City of Aspen. She grew up in the Detroit area and received her Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning from Michigan State University and her Master’s of Landscape Architecture from the University of Colorado at Denver. Ms. Woods has worked in both the public and private sector as a planner, historic preservation officer, and landscape architect including employment with the Village of Wheeling (IL), the Rutland Regional Planning Commission (VT), and Jefferson County (CO).
As the City of Aspen’s Community Development Director
since 1998, Ms. Woods is responsible for the planning, zoning, historic preservation,
environmental health, and building divisions of Community Development. Under
her direction, the community developed it’s 2000 Aspen Area Community
Plan which created the City’s first Community Growth Boundary, incorporated
a “Greenfrastructure Plan” that identified important open spaces
to preserve, and called for 800 to 1300 additional affordable housing units
over the next ten years. The Woods family resides in Snowmass Village.
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