Green Festival

Steve Ma runs Live Green, an organization working to make green living easier and more affordable. He was named Asian American of the year in 2001.

Steve Ma, Board President and Co-Director of Live Green. Steve currently runs Live Green, a DC-based social enterprise that drives practical, impactful, lasting behavior changes aimed at creating a new and thriving green economy. Over the past two decades, Steve has been a result-driven leader in the social change arena through his work with AARP, Sierra Club, the Public Interest Research Groups, and now Live Green. Steve spearheaded the effort to pass the country's strongest telemarketing do-not-call law, developed innovative, market-based approaches to helping people with lower incomes build ...

Diane MacEachern is the author of Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World, and the founder ; publisher of BigGreenPurse.com, a website that offers consumers easy and affordable ways to live a more sustainable lifestyle while encouraging manufacturers to reduce pollution, stop global warming, and limit use of toxic substances.

Mario Machnicki is the president and CEO of American Lime Technology. A native of Poland, he learned traditional masonry construction skills in Eastern Europe. After establishing a successful masonry restoration business that employs old-world techniques and materials in his adopted home of Chicago, he founded U.S. Heritage Group, which offers traditional masonry materials, heritage tools, training, and specialized consulting services. American Lime Technology combines Mario’s interest in heritage masonry with his appreciation for the inherently sustainable qualities of traditional construc ...

For the past 10 years, Mr. Macias has served as the Executive Director of Anahuak. Since founding the organization, he has forested the group’s growth into a democratizing agent of social change in northeastern Los Angeles. He is a pillar of the community and is respected for his sincere efforts to engage the communities he serves into citywide planning and LA River parkway revitalization efforts. Mr. Macias has been recognized for his achievements in soccer and community-building efforts. He was recognized for his achievements with a Los Angeles River Award in 2002, and received interna ...

Marvin Mack is vice president of marketing and media for Divine Chocolate in the USA. Divine Chocolate is a pioneering social enterprise coowned by the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo in Ghana. The success of Divine means that farmers have a secure source of Fair Trade income that continues to grow year over year. Prior to joining Divine Chocolate, Marvin worked for several prominent public relations agencies including RuderFinn, Euro RSCG, Golin Harris, and Manning Selvage and Lee. Mack holds a bachelor's from Hofstra University. He lives in West New York, New Jersey.

Conrad MacKerron serves as the Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Program at the As You Sow (AYS) Foundation. AYS uses shareholder action and other strategies to change corporate behavior and create a more socially and environmentally just society. Conrad is also the winner of the SRI Service Award 2007 for his contributions to social investment community.

Jennifer Mackley is a local attorney and has worked as an advocate for the homeless and in national hunger organizations, such as Foodchain, for the past 20 years. Since moving to West Seattle she has served on the MMRS/LEPC (Metropolitan Medical Response System/Local Emergency Planning Committee) to help coordinate regional catastrophic planning efforts between government agencies, environmental and citizen groups, industry and emergency response officials. In 2005, Jennifer developed a neighborhoodbased preparedness program for 5,000 people in King County that has been adapted for use in ...

MacLeod is part of TWIG (Transition Whatcom Initiating Group) and was motivated to support Transition after seeing The End of Suburbia in 2004, a movie about peak oil and climate. MacLeod will be joined on the Transition panel by Clark and Wolf also from TWIG.

Alice Madden serves as Governor Ritters Climate Change Coordinator. In that role, she is coordinating efforts, both public and private, to meet the green house gas reduction goals set forth in Colorados Climate Action Plan. She is a Senior Fellow on Climate Change for the Center for American Progress, located in Washington, DC. Alice earned her bachelors degree from the University of Colorado in 1981 and her law degree from CU Law in 1989.She started her career in the high tech industry and then practiced law for 10 years before running for office. Alice served in the legislature from 200 ...

A Projects Officer in the Sustainable Energy Group at the International Finance Corporation, Madeira got her start in biodiesel and photovoltaics at American University and while at the University of Peace in Costa Rica helped local communities employ solar power to improve their lives. She frequently teaches renewable energy classes on photovoltaics and biofuels and practices sustainability at home by making biodiesel in her garage and fueling her car with used cooking oil collected from restaurants.

Julio Madrigal was born in Mexico and graduated from Oakland’s Mandela High School. He works for Planting Justice, an organization that builds organic gardens for Bay Area residents so they have access to fresh foods in their neighborhoods. Inspiring people with the message of knowing where their food comes from, reducing pesticides and fossil fuels in the transportation of food. Julio who was inspired by teachers, friends, and the lack of healthy food in his community co-launched EAT GRUB, Enhancing Access to Gardens and Revolutionizing Urban Backyards. With the aim to help people conn ...

As director of the Global Exchange Freedom from Oil Campaign, Magel ispressuring the auto industry to produce zeroemission vehicles andfighting new oil infrastructure.

As Director of Seal of Approval and Standards, Maren oversees the process for business members to earn the coveted Green America Seal of Approval, including standards and partnership development. Maren joined the Green Business Network in 2011 after helping ABC Carpet and Home, a home furnishings department store in New York, transition to socially responsible business practices and sustainable supply chains. She is also an editor for CATALYST Strategic Design Review, a quarterly publication to stimulate thinking and encourage conversation about the role of strategic design in defining and dev ...

Jeff Maimon was raised in the northwest suburb of Buffalo Grove. Following graduation from Stevenson High School in 2004, Jeff went on to Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts where he majored in Music Industry. After a 4 year stint of booking local hip hop and punk shows throughout the New England area, Jeff decided to pack up and move back to Chicago. After finding a full time job at the height of the recession proved unsuccessful, Jeff launched the online web series ChicagoEatsTV.com. In 2010, Jeff joined Frontera Grill, Inc in the role of personal assistant to Chef Rick Bayl ...

Markos Major is an Urban Farm Educator throughout San Francisco. Whether building raised veggie beds on Treasure Island, or planting Orchards in Golden Gate Park, his focus is on empowerment through botanical action and education. As co-founder of the Rainbow Chard Alliance (an LGBT Farmer and Gardener network) Markos works with other queer eco-activists to create community and dialogue around Environmental sustainability. Working for the SFDPW Bureau of Urban Forestry, Markos facilitates the new Sidewalk Landscape Permit. Markos’ passion is Agroecological restoration - working with farmer ...

California born, granddaughter of immigrants, documented and undocumented, devorah major served as Poet Laureate of San Francisco 2002-2006. From her Harlem born Afro-Caribbean father she learned a love of the planet crossing this nation annually by a car and traveling through Europe and living in a tent for a year for a year. A writer, teacher and arts activist her poetry books include street smarts, where river meets ocean, and with more than tongue. She has two novels published, An Open Weave and Brown Glass Windows. She performs locally, nationally and internationally with and without ...

Makhijani is president of The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.

Elaine Maldonado is the Director of Faculty Development and Center for Excellence in Teaching at Fashion Institute of Technology/SUNY. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Cooper Union, a Master of Science in Education from City University of New York and Fine Arts Certificate from the University of Madrid, Spain. Prior to coming to FIT, she was the Director of the College Learning Centers at New York City College of Technology, CUNY’s senior technical college. Professor Maldonado has had faculty appointments at Parsons School of Design, CUNY and at Bank Street College of Educa ...

Ryan Maley is a leader with demonstrated success in translating strategic goals into operational results. Maley has a unique variety of business and technical skills as well as diverse experience with services and manufacturing companies. With a talent for making rapid assessments of situational challenges and developing and leading the resulting plans, he has successfully led efforts to open new markets, restructure organizations, and to grow companies through successful acquisition and integration. He is currently Vice President of Global Inventures, a firm providing operations, management ...

Stacy Malkan is the media director for the Yes on 37 California Right to Know Initiative to label genetically engineered foods. She is a former reporter and newspaper publisher, and longtime advocate for environmental health issues and fighting for our rights for safe nontoxic products, most recently as co-founder of the national Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of the award-winning book, Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry.

Georgia Malki is the President of Seven-Star, green experts to the event industry. Ms. Malki has over twenty years of event planning and marketing experience and is deeply committed to transforming her industry towards engaging sustainable and socially just practices.Born in Madrid, Spain Ms. Malki was educated at California State University in Sacramento, California. She earned her Bachelors in Public Administration and has done graduate work for a Masters in Art Education. She began her event career with Whole Life Exposition and Conferences in San Rafael, CA where she rose to be the Chief O ...

A Freedom from Oil campaigner at Rainforest Action Network, Malloy iscurrently working to push automakers to reduce greenhouse gas emissionsand adopt cleaner technology.

Rosalia Mancera was born in Mexico City and migrated to the United States as a young child. She attended public school in Chicago before attending University of Illinois at Chicago to seek a degree in education. Rosalia holds a bachelors and masters in education. She has lived in Pilsen for more 35 years and has always been active on community issues. As a young activist, Rosalia worked alongside Rudy Lozano Sr. She is currently a Chicago Public Schools teacher and a member of the Pilsen Alliance Board of Directors.

Allison has a passion for creating design that cleanly delivers a clear message with an extra creative push to make the work stand out. With over 15 years experience designing and managing corporate identity and annual reports for Fortune 500 companies, her organizational skills have been described by clients as “downright scary,” and her great business sense keep budgets and schedules tightly on track. Allison’s designs have been recognized by Graphis, HOW Magazine, the Publicity Club of Chicago, the Advertising Club of Washington, D.C. and The Washington Book Publishers. Because living ...

Eric Mann directs the Labor/Community Strategy Center and helped found the Bus Riders Union. The Strategy Center is a “think tank/act tank,” training organizers and initiating high visibility environmental justice, mass transportation and civil rights campaigns. The BRU is the largest mass transportation group in the U.S. Mann has been a civil rights, anti-Vietnam war, labor and environmental organizer with the Congress of Racial Equality, Students for a Democratic Society and the United Auto Workers.In 2001, he was a delegate to the U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South A ...

For the past seven years, Shannon Mann has been an active member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, acting as a volunteer crew member during many campaigns, ranging from anti-whaling intervention in the Antarctic to marine conservation efforts in the Galapagos to documentation of the Canadian seal hunt. Upon hearing Captain Paul Watson speak in 2005 — founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — Shannon saw the opportunity to become involved in a cause close to her heart, and made a decision that would completely alter the course of her life.She quit her job, sold her car, and se ...

Ms. Manthe has worked for the Oneida Tribe since 1993. She has worked for the Environmental Resources Board for the past 10 years. She is responsible for community outreach and education. In that capacity she has organized numerous community meetings, educational events, workshops, conferences and presentations on various environmental issues.Laura brings a wealth of knowledge regarding the Oneida Nation and it's citizens. Currently Laura is part of a multi departmental team that is responsible for the design of the Sustainable Oneida Community including walking paths to connect housing sites ...

Lynda V. Mapes is an environmental reporter for the Seattle Times. She has worked as a reporter for daily newspapers for more than 20 years on both sides of the country and specializes in coverage of Native American tribes and regional environmental issues.She has won national and regional awards for her coverage of science and the environment, and is the author of Washington, the Spirit of the Land, (Voyageur Press, 1999, 2002) and a forthcoming book, Breaking Ground, about the inadvertant discovery of an ancient Indian village in Port Angeles, due out next year from the University of Washing ...

Manuel Maqueda is trained as an international economist, attorney, entrepreneur, and environmentalist, but chooses not to identify with any profession, career or position. He is involved in a variety of organizations and projects to educate, lead, and innovate our transition to a responsible, thriving way of life on Earth. Manuel is cofounder of Plastic Pollution Coalition and is a member of Midway Journey, a transmedia project and documentary film led by Chris Jordan documenting plastic pollution on the albatross colonies of Midway island.

Eric Mar was elected in November 2008 to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to represent the Richmond District. For over two decades, Eric has been a dedicated and responsive advocate for working families, youth and seniors, small businesses and all the diverse residents of San Francisco. From 2000 to 2008, Eric served as a Commissioner and President of the San Francisco Board of Education. He has also taught Asian American and Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University, has been a past director of the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights and a longtime social justice a ...

The Collaborative is a national campaign in ten American cities (www.emeraldcities.org), where Marchant works with stakeholder organizations (public, labor, community and industry and workforce development) to bring a collective effort to retrofit our urban core. This creates high road jobs, builds our democracy, reduces energy use and brings direct investments to local communities. As the creator and Program Manager of the Green Assets Program at the Greenlining Institute, she worked with advocates and elected officials to include communities of color and low-income communities in California ...

Alexia Marcous is co-founder and Chief Optimistic Officer of Dharma Merchant Services, the preferred and recommended merchant service provider of Green America and winner of the Fourth Green Business Leadership Award from Green America. Alexia holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and an M.B.A. from Drexel University. Alexia was a computer programmer and systems architect consultant for 12 years, serving companies and non-profits in the financial, insurance, pharmaceutical, energy and technology industries. She is a mentor for the ...

Ami Marcus is a core team member of a grassroots group in Mt. Shasta, CA that is working to enact laws elevating rights of Mt. Shasta’s citizens and the natural environment above claimed legal “rights” of corporations. As a Culture Change Partner for IMPAQ, an International Consulting Firm, Ami supports corporate leaders in building accountable, transparent cultures to achieve meaningful results. She is the founder of PlanetVision Productions, focusing on a conscious media project designed to accelerate a shift in global awareness and sustainable behaviors. Ami serves by bridging diverse ...

Mari is the associate director of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.

Jonathan Mariano is an MBA graduate from the Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco, CA. He writes for TriplePundit.com, a new-media company for the business community that cultivates awareness and understanding of the triple bottom line – people, planet, profit. Jonathan’s interests include the convergence between lean & green and pursuing market based sustainable solutions.

Marilyn Jones has been the proud Founder and President of Chicago-based Consolidated Printing Company since its inception in 1973. She knew she always wanted to own her own company almost as much as she wanted to have a company that was good to and for its employees. Little did she know that goal would be the back-drop to a thirty-five year effort to create the greenest printing company in America. The entrepreneurial spirit and concern for others in Marilyn drove her to pursue the elimination of all toxic and carcinogenic chemicals from her company’s printing process from its beginning. ...

Mark is the editor of Earth Island Journal and comanager of Alemany Farm in San Francisco, which empowers San Francisco residents to grown their own food.

Jones, MSM, is a master systems architect, strategic thinking partner and spiritual teacher with more than 20 years leadership experience(as CEO, VP, CIO, etc.) in business, nonprofit, and elected and/or appointed positions. He uses wisdom and compassion to optimize wellbeing and performance, achieving more than $1 billion in cost savings, cost avoidance and/or revenue generation. Jones implements visions (highest aspirations and values), from discerning the needs, aspirations, lifecycles, constraints and conditions of the wholesystem of internal and external ecosystems to assembling, developi ...

Ana Paula Markel is a Certified Doula, Certified Childbirth Educator and DONA-Approved Birth Doula Trainer. She was twice named “Childbirth Educator of the Year” and was voted “Most Inspiring Doula” by the Doula Association of Southern California. Ana writes for the website BusinessofBeingBorn.com and Midwifery Today magazine, and is featured in Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein‘s film The Business of Being Born and their book Your Best Birth. In 2008 Ana founded BINI Birth, a childbirth education center for doula training, workshops, classes, yoga, Hypnobirthing, Breastfeeding classes and ...

Rosemarie Markopoulos teaches Environmental Science, Physical Science, and Math at CCA Academy. She has interests in environmental sustainability, renewable energy and genetics.

BioLighter inventor and patent-holder Joe Marlin has managed to merge his mechanical engineering background with his environmentalism. Working as an environmental activist just after graduating from Case Western Reserve University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, Joe then invested his mechanical expertise into the world of automotive repair and fleet maintenance, given his preference for a hands-on approach to engineering solutions. ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) master-certified in the repair of cars and trucks, as well as ASE alternative-fuels certified, he officially qualifies a ...

Shayna Marmar is a cooking educator with a homestyle flair. She finds great joy in teaching fromscratch cooking to children, teens, adults, and families. In addition to her work with Honeypie Cooking ; Events, Shayna is also the associate director of the Temple Sinai Preschool in Oakland and the project assistant to Bryant Terry.

Holistic health and fitness guide Rainbeau Mars brings a lifetime of practicing yoga to her successful career as author and creator of numerous yoga DVDs, founder of the ra’yoKa fitness. As a highly sought after yoga instructor in Hollywood, Rainbeau’s clientele includes a multitude of A-list celebrities, models and moguls. Rainbeau Mars—yes, that’s her real name—was born under a double rainbow in a teepee in the Ozarks. She was raised in Boulder, Colorado in the heart and at the forefront of the health and natural foods industry by her mother, Brigitte Mars, an author and master he ...

Kristen Martinek has always had a profound love for the environment and natural health. Her passion to live a healthy & sustainable life has led her to work on three organic farms, literally learning from the ground up what a sustainable diet entails. As the Produce Lead Buyer at the Dill Pickle Coop, Kristen now acts as the voice between farm & city, to help better her community through the foods they eat. Whether it be offering up a healthy recipe, encouraging someone to try kale or beets for the first time, or selling as many local & regional foods as possible, Kristen pours her heart & sou ...

Deborah Marton is the senior vice-president of The New York Restoration Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reclaiming and restoring New York City parks, community gardens and open space, and to planting a million trees within the five boroughs by 2017.

Barbara Marx Hubbard has been a leading voice for innovative change in the world for the past 40 years. As a visionary, author, speaker, social architect and cofounder/president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, she believes that humanity now, as never before, is on the threshold of a quantum leap. She has been instrumental in the founding of many futureoriented organizations including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought. In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the vice presidenc ...

Mary Lee is Deputy Director of Policy Link, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity. Mary is a member of the PolicyLink health team, providing research, technical assistance and training to public and private agencies collaborating to build healthy communities. Lee is a practicing attorney with more than 25 years of experience working on civil rights, land use and economic development strategies to revitalize neighborhoods and enhance public participation in the policy arena. A former L.A. Transportation Commissioner, Ms. Lee has long worked for the legal ...

Mary Meyer co-designed, built and has lived in an off-grid strawbale house for 17 years with her husband Richard Cartwright in rural Southeast Indiana in Oldenburg. They were inspired to create an Earth harmonious lifestyle with a low carbon footprint and saw an opportunity to do this through building and living in this manner. Their home features stuccoed & plastered strawbale walls as structure and insulation, an annually renewable material acquired from Mary's brother, a nearby farmer. The house is built on a gently sloping hill creating a split level that naturally circulates air for heati ...

Prianjali Mascarenhas manages the Community Investing Program at Coop America and the Social Investment Forum. Her background in Urban Planning and Economic Development, and passion for development issues has propelled her to work on access to credit and capital issues for lowincome communities in the US and abroad.She will be moderating the panel The New Wave of Community Investing exploring both a bigpicture look at global and national impacts of community investing with two experts from the field, along with an indepth account oh how community investing has transformed the lives of local Ch ...

A serial eclectic and citizen of the world, Konda Mason’s career path has been anything but a straight path. She has honed her business leadership skills as a Grammy winning artist manager in London, an Academy Award nominated film producer in Hollywood, and an Off Broadway hit theater producer in New York…just to name a few. Turning her attention to sustainable personal and global living solutions, Konda is a facilitator trainer for The Pachamama Alliance, a certified yoga instructor, a partner in Earthseed Consulting, LLC, and most recently the Founder and CEO of Hub Oakland LLC. She w ...

Serving as a director of Build It Green, and its predecessor nonprofit Green Resource Center since 2003, Bruce helped shepherd the organization through a period of exponential growth. In June of 2006, he transitioned from the board to a staff role as development director.Since 2002, Bruce has managed a CPUCfunded education and outreach initiative to help local governments and building professionals promote construction and remodeling practices that maximize energy efficiency, water conservation, indoor air quality, resource conservation, and overall sustainability. In that capacity, he helped ...

Refugio Mata is the Deputy Press Secretary for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign Southwest region. He has extensive background in both online and offline community organizing tactics and in Integrated Communications Management. In the past he's worked with labor groups as a Communications Coordinator for Good Jobs L.A. and a grassroots campaign based in South L.A. In addition, for nearly five years, he served as Project Organizer for Heal the Bay, an environmental nonprofit organization that focuses on revitalizing the Santa Monica Bay. He co-founded Heal the Bay’s “Healthy Neighborho ...

Founding director of Pomegranate Center, which enables people to come together to improve communities, Matanovic has been a visual and performing artist for 35 years. Community Creativity Work of Pomegranate Center.A great place results from the convergence of art, public participation, and community betterment. Placemaking design ideas and communitybuilding processes help transform communities, neighborhoods, and developments into more humane, sustainable, and interesting places. Matanovic will illustrate placemaking concepts using Pomegranate Centers past and current projects, which involve ...

Matthew Harris is a workshop coordinator and instructor for Solar Energy Internationals (SEI) Sustainable Building Program. In this role he serves as the handson projects manager ; coinstructor for all of SEI's Natural Building workshops, and teaches in the Building for the Future online course. Educated in Architectural Design at Arizona State University with a focus on sustainable natural building, Matthew shares a vision of a built environment that focuses on regenerative and restorative design strategies. His career in building has traversed the globe consulting and constructing structure ...

Chelsea is the Forest Program Assistant at RAN, where she supports both the Rainforest Agribusiness and Rainforest-Free Paper Campaigns. Chelsea first got involved with environmental non-profit work while interning at Accion Ecologica in Ecuador. Originally from Colorado, Chelsea moved to San Francisco to earn her degree in International Studies with an emphasis on environment and development at the University of San Francisco.

Once Shanelle realized her communication skills could be a tool for social change, she committed her career to social justice media that addresses the needs of marginalized communities. Prior to joining Forward Together, Shanelle worked for Law Students for Reproductive Justice, serving as their first Development and Administrative Associate; it was during that time that her interest in reproductive justice was cultivated into an irrevocable passion. Previous to that she worked as a freelance journalist contributing to media chiefly in the nonprofit sector, including Women's eNews and the Wome ...

Andrea manages Edible Alchemy Foods Co-operative, a locally & sustainably-focused produce & bulk co-operative. She also manages the Eco Rooftop garden, teaching workshops to students of all ages. Her passion for food began while studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago, and extended into creating a structure which allows people to learn skills like gardening, composting, cooking, preserving food & using medicinal herbs while developing community bonds with all who cross her path.

Dietrich & Andrea Mattson-McGaffey are co-founders and co-ordinators of Edible Alchemy. EA is Chicago's local-source, sustainable & organic foods co-op, catering, and workshop center based at their community center & rooftop garden in Pilsen. They are passionate about teaching the value of human connections to food, about self-sustainability, local foods, and the transformative power of communities gathering to share stories and a meal.

Eric Maundu was raised on a traditional farm in Kenya where he learned the balance of traditional practices and modern technologies. Experience in these farming methods led him to study engineering. He spent 10 years designing different projects using local materials before moving to the Bay Area for further education.An engineer by profession, he has been working on alternative farming projects in Kenya where traditional practices are integrated with modern technologies using local materials. Aquaponics has been his hobby for the last 8 years, and he has successfully applied aquaponics and ot ...

Mazuela is originally from Chile and has been living in the US for the past 27 years. A musician and cofounder of the Group Sin Fronteras (featuring Latin American Traditional and Nueva Cancion Musicand cofounder of the Group Pasajeros (an all spanish playback theatre group). Mazuela's passion for the Nueva Cancion movement keeps her busy organizing artistic events that promote social justice and awareness through all aspects of the arts: Theatre, Visual Arts, Dance, Music and Spoken word.

A founding member of the Climate Solutions team, Mazza has written extensively to improve public understanding of climate change science and accelerate clean energy development.

Jeffrey holds a BA in Economics and MBA in Global Business . His background encompasses 25 years of banking with specialization in lending, particularly to small businesses.

Kathryn McCamant and her husband Charles Durrett co-authored Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves and founded both McCamant & Durrett Architects and The CoHousing Company. They coined the term "cohousing," for which they are credited in the Oxford English Dictionary. Kathryn founded Cohousing Partners in 2006 with developer Jim Leach.Together they have designed and developed over 50 cohousing communities.

Tricia McCauley is an herbalist and health coach specializing in digestive issues, food sensitivities, and stress management. She works with individual clients at Healing Arts of Capitol Hill, teaches workshops around the DC area, makes lotions and lip balms, and is the resident herbalist at Common Good City Farm. Her article “Managing Stress with Herbal Support” was published in Green American Magazine this winter. Sign up for her newsletter, read her blog, and find out more at www.nutriciaconsulting.com or www.leafyhead.com.

Carol McClelland, PhD, Founder and Executive Director of Green Career Central, began working with people craving a career change in 1991. Since then she has supported individuals, groups, and students in discovering the career that best suits them personally and professionally. She's written several career related books and programs including, Your Dream Career For Dummies. In late 2007 she launched her latest venture, GreenCareerCentral.com, a subscriptionbased virtual career center for motivated professionals who want to find a green career that fully expresses their passions, skills, values ...

Author of three books including The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, McLennan is CEO of the Cascadia Green Building Council, a leading sustainable development organization in the Pacific Northwest.

James McCommons has been a journalist for 25 years, publishing hundreds of magazine articles, many of them focused on ecology, the environment and economics. In 2008, he rode 26,000 miles on intercity Amtrak trains to experience the current passenger rail system and interview decision makers around the country. The result was the book Waiting on a Train,published in 2009 by Chelsea Green and named by “The Library Journal” as one of its best picks of 2009.

After nearly a decade as a Christian Coalition activist and Republican nominee for the U.S. Congress in one of the most conservative districts in America, McCormick learned firsthand the most destructive force in our country today is Americans taking sides against other Americans. The turning point in his life came in 2001 when his political career, marriage, business and reputation collapsed, his relationships having been eroded by mistrust and hatred of his enemies. The pain of this personal loss was transformative and he began slowly rebuilding his life on more solid ground, searchi ...

Tiffany founded Streamline, a consulting practice for entitiesdeveloping ecoassets. Formerly at Point Carbon she launched atrading analytics tool for carbon markets. Tiffany holds a Master'sfrom Yale University.

Bridget Bamber McCracken is an arts administrator and actor. Bridget is Trash MashUps managing director. She graduated with a Master's in Public Administration at San Francisco State University with an emphasis in Art Administration and Nonprofit Management and currently is the Director of Academic Services for the department. Bridget was the production manager with The DellArte Company from 1996 to 2001 and in 1998 also became the Companys Booking Manager. She has performed in and stage managed 22 original productions with DellArte; touring to Colombia, Venezuela, Holland, Denmark and Sweden ...

Executive Vice President of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, McDonough has been organizing labor for over thirty years. The UFCW is an active player against the expansion of WalMarts into communities due to their poor labor standards for both workers here and abroad through their Wakeup WalMart campaign. The Walmarting of AmericaHow does WalMart affect our communities? From product sourcing and labor policies to environmental issues and health care, panelists will address the issues many communities face when weighing the benefits and liabilities of a WalMart in their neighborhoo ...

William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he and his partners call 'The Next Industrial Revolution.' Time magazine recognized him in 1999 as a 'Hero for the Planet', stating that his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy thatin demonstrable and practical waysis changing the design of the world. Time Magazine again recognized Mr. McDonough and Michael Braungart as Heroes of the Environment in October 2007. In 1996, Mr. McDonough received the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, the nation's highest environ ...

Chelsea and Rob McFarland created HoneyLove.org in an effort to save the honeybee and legalize urban beekeeping. HoneyLove.org is a non profit organization created for the conservation of honeybees and the promotion of urban beekeeping. Leveraging their backgrounds in filmmaking, digital activism and conservation, Chelsea and Rob wish to create a community model that can be shared globally though social media.

Dietrich & Andrea Mattson-McGaffey are co-founders and co-ordinators of Edible Alchemy. EA is Chicago's local-source, sustainable & organic foods co-op, catering, and workshop center based at their community center & rooftop garden in Pilsen (ecorooftop.org). They are passionate about teaching the value of human connections to food, about self-sustainability, local foods, and the transformative power of communities gathering to share stories and a meal.

McGann is the farm coordinator for the Lettuce Link Giving Garden at Marra Farm. A food gardener, creative community activist, permaculturist and educator, she is active in the Urban Farmers and the Awareness guilds of Sustainable NE, working to build resilience within her community. McGann loves to grow food, prepare and enjoy it with friends.

Elspeth McGarvey is a student at the University of Chicago majoring in Political Science. Last summer she participated in Pamela Martin's research class and interned at Windy City Harvest. For the Summer Links Program as a Community Outreach Intern, she worked at the 61st St. Farmers Market and developed a community outreach plan. Elspeth was also a farm hand at The Great Pumpkin Patch in Arthur, IL where she helped to grow over 400 varieties of pumpkins, squash and gourds.At the University Community Service Center, she has worked as the Volunteer Referral student staff where she has worked t ...

Michele McGeoy is the founder and executive director of the non-profit Solar Richmond (SR). Founded in 2006 to serve the community through green-collar job training and placement, Michele has lead SR in working closely with diverse partners across city government, non-profit, and local businesses sectors, to foster a green economy in Richmond and bring good, green jobs to its residents. Additionally, Michele has created a model that accomplishes this while addressing the concerns of violence reduction, youth and infrastructure investment. Since its inception Solar Richmond has created over 20 ...

Michael McGinn was elected the 52nd mayor of Seattle in November of 2009 after a distinguished career in politics, law, environmental, and community advocacy.He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Williams College and a juris doctor from the Gates School of Law at the University of Washington, after which he joined the Seattle law firm Stokes Lawrence and rose to become a partner. His civic work has included chairing the local chapter of the Sierra Club and serving on its national political committee, founding a nonprofit called Great City which focused on transportation and susta ...

Richard lives by four basic principles: Nothing is impossible; abnormal is the new normal; do your best every waking moment; inspire and support others. He combines these principles with three simple career concepts: If it is rewarding, keep doing it; if it is not rewarding, stop doing it; if it is not rewarding and you have to keep doing it, make it rewarding. A born entrepreneur and Business Management graduate from LSU, former vegan restaurant owner, international sales manager for commercial & retail print media, and four miserable years in corporate healthcare marketing. Finally, in 2002 ...

With this year marking a decade of experience in the Speciality Coffee industry, Harold resides as the Head Barista and Coffee Program Manager at Coffee Bar here in his hometown, San Francisco. His love for coffee has sent him all over the country and world. You can find him behind the bar training staff, pulling shots of espresso at break neck speeds, throwing down in national latte art competitions, fixing high tech espresso machines, and around town sipping all the delicious brews that make SF one of the best cities for Speciality Coffee in the world. "There are three major reasons why I'm ...

Maureen McGowan is the Director of HandCrafting Justice Inc., a project of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. HCJ supports and assists women in the developing world in their efforts to create employment. A Sister of the Good Shepherd since 1965, she helped to found HandCrafting Justice in 1997, and has been serving as Director since 2004. Sister Maureen established the Good Shepherd Volunteer Program in 1993 and served as director until 2004. Prior to these ventures, she worked at Good Shepherd Services, supporting youth and families and as a director of training and formation for the Sisters o ...

Sarah McGowanis the Development Director for the Echo Park Time Bank and the California Federation of Time Banks.TimeBanking involves an exchange of services without using the cash economy. For every hour spent doing something for someone else, you earn a TimeDollar that can be used for having someone do something for you. Sarah is President of the Silver Lake Chamber of Commerce and helped create a national best-practices Youth Court in San Diego. She is a board member for Law Project LA and is the founding Features & Photo editor forThe Women's International Perspective. Sara owns MAC+COB ...

Chris is the Founder and Editor of Thrifty & Green. He brings extensive experience in publishing and the Internet and holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College in Washington State where he studied Green Architecture, Sustainability, Technology and Journalism. Chris is interested in creating a community and magazine focused on media and tools that educate the general public about Sustainability, and saving money while helping the earth through simple living. The idea behind T&G is that by living more simply, one lives more sustainably, and, by nature, save money and help the ea ...

McHale is part of North Community Bank, a locally owned bank whoseprinciples include responsibility to the community and decisions madelocally in the bank.

Keith McHenry helped start Food Not Bombs in Massachusetts in 1980, and a second chapter in California in 1988. He has recovered, cooked and shared food with the hungry as a part of Food Not Bombs for over 30 years. He was arrested "for making a political statement" in San Francisco, spent over 500 nights in jail and faced 25 years to life in prison. He co-wrote Food Not Bombs How to feed the hungry and build community,as well as wrote and illustrated Cooking for Peace -Cultivating Community, Reaping Revolution-Transforming the World with Food Not Bombs. He continues to volunteer with Food No ...

Joseph McIntyre is president of Ag Innovations Network, a United States based nongovernmental organization, focused on the sustainability of the food system. Ag Innovations Network convenes and facilitates multistakeholder efforts to improve the performance of the food system for producers, consumers, and participants in local, regional, and global food supply chains. These efforts focus both on policy changes and on direct improvements on farms, processing sites, and food outlets. Joseph is a trusted intermediary between diverse interests in agriculture and has consulted/facilitated processes ...

Tom McKeag teaches bioinspired design at the California College of the Arts and University of California, Berkeley, is the founder and president of BioDreamMachine. Tom also helped establish the nation's first public elementary school course in biomimicry, and works as a licensed landscape architect and community planner.Tom McKeag teaches bioinspired design at the California College of the Arts and University of California, Berkeley, is the founder and president of BioDreamMachine. Tom also helped establish the nation's first public elementary school course in biomimicry, and works as a lic ...

Branice McKenzie's career includes everything from jazz to theater to prolific songwriting. Some of her credits include critically acclaimed performances at the Newport Jazz Festival and The Umbria Jazz Festival. She is also a recipient of the Meet The Composer grant from New York State. Her incredible voice and magnificent song stylings have been hailed throughout the world. She has toured with Harry Belafonte,Gregory Hines, Roberta Flack, Hugh Masekela, Carly Simon, BeBe Winans and Miriam Makeba to name a few and performing all over the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. Ms. McKenzie wa ...

Sean Mckenzie is a Ward 5 beekeeper and queen rearer who is developing lines of queens that are specially adapted to the DC area. He is also an expert at swarm capture and rescue, and removal of endangered honeybee colonies from falling trees and human structures. Free bees!

BillMcKibben, a well known environmental author and activist, is the founder of350.org, an international climate change campaign.350.org is named for the safe level of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, 350 parts per million. This October 24,Billand350.org are coordinating an International Day of Climate Action to call for a strong climate treaty that meets the 350 target. When he's not busy organizing,Billis an active writer on the climate crisis and other environmental issues. His 1989 bookThe End of Nature was the first book to warn the general public about the threat of global warm ...

Founded in 1999 by brother and sister team Ahmed Rahim (the alchemist) and Reem Rahim (the artist), Numi Organic Tea is a purveyor of premium quality organic and fair trade certified teas and teasans. Numi blends its organic leave teas in a solar-powered facility with only real herbs, fruits, flowers and spices—not unnecessary “natural” flavorings or perfumes. All Numi products are packaged in recycled content containers and biodegradable bags and are available in retail outlets throughout the U.S.,Canada, the UK, Denmark, the Netherlands and online at www.NumiTea.com. An award-winning s ...

Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson are coauthors of The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change, Spiritual Politics, and Builders of the Dawn. They are cofounders of The Center for Visionary Leadership in California and Sirius Community, a spiritual/ecological community in Massachusetts. Corinne coordinated a national task force for President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development. Gordon was formerly the Executive Director of the Social Investment Forum and Ceres. They are both Fellows of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Founda ...

Stuart McLean is a Northern Virginia Top Bar Hive beekeeper, teacher and mentor with extensive experience in Top Bar Hive design and building, as well as experiments with heritage skills such as skep building. Stuart can share insights on DIY TBH projects and pitfalls, as well as the history of Top Bar Hive beekeeping.

Kelle Lynch McMahon is the Founder and CEO of The Green Science Academy, is a small local woman owned business, that focuses on green jobs and technology development. TGSA creates and delivers educational programs for small business seeking green certification and education for staff. LEED, BPI and HERS I and II programs that lead to certification and continuing education for engineers in green clean technology sectors. She also has prepared education plans and developed curriculum for non-profit workforce development programs. Kelle has shared her expertise in engineering and architecture to ...

Alexandra McPherson is Managing Director of Clean Production Action, an environmental nonprofit committed to designing and delivering solutions for green chemicals, sustainable materials and environmentally preferred products. She has written numerous publications and developed initiatives that demonstrate the viability of new solutions such as green chemistry in the electronics sector.

A vegan trailblazer, public health nutrition expert, author, and speaker, Tracye McQuirter, M.P.H., is passionate about inspiring people to live healthier, happier lives. For the past 25 years, she has been writing, speaking, and teaching about the food, culture, and politics of healthy living. Her best-selling book is titled By Any Greens Necessary: A Revolutionary Guide for Black Women Who Want to Eat Great, Get Healthy, Lose Weight, and Look Phat.  

Annie McShiras is Development Director of the Responsible Endowments Coalition, an organization that works to build and unify the college and university-based responsible investment movement--challenging universities to invest their money in more socially and environmentally just ways. Annie has been active in movements for corporate accountability and economic justice for the past five years. In 2007, her vision of the world shifted when she learned of the realities of modern day slavery while working with Bolivian immigrants at a community-based organization in Argentina. Since then, Annie ...

Tom Mears is CEO of The Holland, Inc., a company whose goals include conducting food and business operations in a loving, sustainable manner.

Meas is a senior at Evergreen High School. Meas has attended three semesters with Waskowitz Environmental Leadership Semester (WELS) where he enjoyed teaching at Camp Waskowitz. The camp allows sixth graders a week in the outdoors instead of being in the city. They learn animal adaptation, why we recycle, not to waste water, not to litter, and other environmental lessons. At the Environmental Science Center in Normandy Park, Meas taught students from K12 about salmon life cycles and anatomy. While at Youth Media Institute, Meas worked on a public service announcement about green living focu ...