OCTOBER 2008 EXPO SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Nicholas Kuhn Nicholas Kuhn is the City of Albuquerque Forester and administers a program based on environmental, economic, and social services for urban forests. He is a ISA Certified Arborist/Municipal Specialist and graduate of Municipal Forester Institute and has worked extensively for 15 years on federal, state, municipal and private forestry projects. Stephen Saint-Onge Stephen Saint-Onge is America’s Home Designer. In the past decade he has become an expert on the home and family-focused lifestyle. He is seen monthly by millions of people in his home design and lifestyle column, “House Calls with Stephen Staint-Onge,” in Better Homes and Garden magazine. He is also featured on television as a regular contributor to the “Early Show” on CBS and on the “Better Living” show, which is syndicated nationally. Mark Warren Jones Mark Warren Jones is the owner and president of Warren Consulting. Mark is a Resnet certified HERS rater, an Energy Star Partner. He specializes in the energy modeling and diagnostic testing of residential projects prior to construction, but also performs diagnostic testing for existing buildings. V.B. Price V. B. Price is a nationally recognized and awarded environmental and human rights columnist, editor, journalist, architectural critic and teacher. A frequent speaker, Price is the former editor of New Mexico Magazine, co-founder of Century Magazine and his columns have appeared regularly in publications since 1971. Some of his books include: Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World, Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscape of the American Southwest, and Anasazi Architecture and American Design. Baker H. Morrow, FASLA Baker H. Morrow is the founding director of the Masters program in landscape architecture at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of "Best Plants For New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes” and is a prinicipal in Morrow, Reardon, Wilkinson, Miller Ltd. Ted Owens Ted Owens is the owner of Syncronos Design, Inc. He is a designer and filmmaker whose primary focus is the merging of energy-efficiency and sustainability with sound aesthetic principles. Ted has acted as a consultant on numerous green building projects, from small-scale individual homes to large, multi-million-dollar, LEED-certified government facilities. He is the author and director of the award-winning “Building with Awareness” DVD and guidebook on green building. Shrayas Jatkar Shrayas Jatkar is a Conservation Organizer with the Sierra Club in New Mexico. With the aim of solving global warming, Shrayas’ work involves helping coordinate the Albuquerque Cool Cities Campaign and the Sierra Club’s grassroots efforts in New Mexico to pass strong global warming and clean energy legislation at the national level. He also works to defeat dirty energy plans such as the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant and various attempts to expand the nuclear industry in New Mexico (from uranium mining to reprocessing spent fuel). Hank Bruce \Hank is the program director of Hunger Grow Away and a horticultural therapist. He and his wife, Tomi Jill Fold, have written over 20 books and hundreds of articles on hunger, family gardening, diabetes prevention and control, horticultural therapy, school gardening programs and accessible community gardens. Hank was awarded the American Horticultural Therapy Association’s Humanitarian of the Year Award in 1999, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Darren Crouch Darren Crouch is the co-founder and president of Passages International, Inc. Passages International, Inc. is a global leader in green funeral merchandise, including eco-friendly woven willow caskets and over 50 urns sustainably crafted from multiple media, including recycled paper and cardboard, cornstarch, salt and even gelatin. Darren has authored several articles on green funeral merchandise and is a regular speaker at international funeral exhibitions. Samara Rivett Samara Rivett is a qualified Celebrant and Officiant affiliated with the Celebrant USA Foundation and Institute. Samara creates, rekindles, writes and officiates at all kinds of personalized, meaningful public and private ceremonies, including ‘green’ ceremonies, those for life passages, and new ceremonies to meet our contemporary needs. She specializes in multicultural, interfaith, secular, and spiritual ceremonies. Through her consultancy, Ceremonies of Depth and Beauty, she provides quality traditional and non-traditional ceremonies and ceremony services in a caring, attentive, compassionate and professional manner. Samara also gives talks and leads workshops on ceremony-related topics. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, she consults nationally as a professional celebrant and ceremony consultant. Joe Sehee Joe Sehee is the founder/executive director of the Green Burial Council. He has worked in the green burial field since 2002 and the deathcare industry since 1999. A senior fellow with Environmental Leadership Program Fellow and a PERC "enviropreneur," Joe also consults land trusts, park service agencies, and private landowners interested in developing burial grounds as a strategy for protecting natural areas. Alexandria and Leonardo Alexandria, 12-year-old president of LGI, and Leonardo,10-year-old CEO of LGI, are enterprising siblings, who formed their innovative educational company in 2007. They are the youngest instructors at the Ecoversity and have been developing a living, biofuel-producing algae machine. Their work focuses on the principles and techniques of algae farming for carbon sequestration and the production of biofuel, oils, and protein cakes. Vaughn Gangwish Vaughn Gangwish is the Executive Director of the Southwestern Biofuels Association, a non-profit orgainziation promoting renewable biofuels created from sustainable resources such as camelina and algae that can be grown in the southwest. He has more than twenty years experience as a lawyer in private practice and a business owner/manager. He has served as corporate counsel to numerous corporations including farmers, agricultural business and non-profit corporations and has significant legal experience with government regulatory work, administrative hearings and the rulemaking process. He lives in Albuquerque with his four sons. Robert Hockaday Robert Hockaday is the principal investigator and innovator of Energy Related Devices. He was a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory staff, and subsequently left to pursue full-time development of technologies that require cross discipline research with a philosophy that "Nature provides the models for energy solutions". These technologies mimic systems observed in nature such as artificial stomata of plants and micro concentrator photovoltaic skylights. Loretta Hall Loretta Hall is the author of Underground Buildings: More than Meets
the Eye, a book that showcases this surprisingly common branch of
architecture and discusses its challenges and rewards. She presents
additional information at SubsurfaceBuildings.com. Loretta spoke about
earth-integrated buildings at the 2007 American Institute of Architects
convention and the 2008 Traditional Buildings conference, and she will
speak at the Ecobuild conference in Washington DC this December. Susie Marbury Susie Marbury, a LEED™ Accredited Professional with a Masters of Architecture from the University of New Mexico, administers the Energy Efficiency and Green Building programs for the State of New Mexico’s Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department. Susie was instrumental, as the past Executive Director of the Green Alliance, in establishing the U.S. Green Building Council New Mexico Chapter and currently serves as the Chapter Chair-Elect. Having also provided LEED consulting services for a local architecture firm, Susie brings a broad understanding of the issues involved in making the built environment more sustainable. Arthur Clerx Arthur Clerx is the president of Total Service Company, a mechanical contracting company specializing in plumbing, heating and cooling for residential and commercial buildings. He has a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University Eindhoven in Holland. | 
America’s Home Designer, Stephen Saint-Onge firmly believes that “good design has the power to change lives.” In the past decade, he has become an expert on the home and family-focused lifestyle.