2008 Program Highlights
West Coast Green is a feast of innovations and ideas — an educational smorgasbord designed to widen your vision and stimulate your mind with the latest best practices in green building. You’ll find:
- More than 380 exhibitors
- More than 6,000 industry professionals attending
- Thousands of Bay Area homeowners attending on Homeowner Day
- Networking forums
- 3 groudbreaking days – 3 days for trade and 1 day open to homeowners
- 100 presentations by industry leaders and visionary thinkers
- Advanced tracks for design and build professionals
Curriculum in Development
West Coast Green celebrates a new chapter in the history of the green building and healthy homes movement. For many years, the conventional wisdom governing the built environment was that green building makes environmental sense but not necessarily good business sense. Case studies, statistics, and hard evidence now show this is no longer the case. West Coast Green would like to recognize the innovators in this movement and applaud the effort of so many that have worked to bring green building into the mainstream.
Track
Advisor(s)
Affordable Single and Multi-Family Housing
Bruce Mast, Development Director, Build it Green
Heather Larson, California Multifamily New Homes Program Manager, Heschong Mahone Group, Inc.
Marty Keller, Director of Construction, First Community Housing
Don Ludwig, City of San Jose
Architecture & Design
Allison Arieff, Editor, Sunset Magazine and “By Design” Columnist, Sunset, New York Times
Carol Venolia, Architect and Director, Carol Venolia, Architect
Chris Waugh, Practice Lead, Consumer Experience Design, IDEO
Katherine Austin, Architect and Chair of National AIA Housing & Custom Residential Knowledge Community, Katherine Austin, AIA, Architect
Steve Bishop, Sustainability Domain Lead, IDEO
Eric Corey Freed, Architect, LEED AP and Principal, organicARCHITECT
Michael Sammet, Program Director, UC Berkeley Extension
Dan Johnson, Design Team, Arkin Tilt Architecture
Building & Construction
Carl Seville, Principal, Seville Consulting
Marc Richmond, President, Practica Consulting
Todd Lukesh, Sustainability Engineer, Webcor
Mark LaLiberte, Building Science Specialist and Trainer, Building Knowledge Inc.
Bob Massaro, CEO, Healthy Buildings Management Group, Inc.
Joseph Perkins, HBANC
Debbie Mackey, President, NARI of San Jose, Daniel Mackey Construction Incorporated
Communities & Developments
John Knott, Managing Director/ CEO, The Noisette Company, LLC
Joseph Perkins, HBANC
Economics of Green Building
Elizabeth Redman, Economic Competitiveness Group, Inc
Energy Efficiency & Renewables
Panama Bartholomy, Advisor to Chairperson Pfannenstiel, California Energy Comission
Pepper Smith, Green Consulting Programs Manager, Davis Energy Group
Government & Policy
Brian Gitt, Exec. Director, Build it Green
Panama Bartholomy, Advisor to Chairperson Pfannenstiel, California Energy Comission
Racquel Palmese, Managing Editor, Green Technology
Jennifer Seguin, Green Building Program Coordinator, City of San Jose
Healthy Building
Jennifer Roberts, Author, Good Green Kitchens
Mary Cordaro, President and Founder, H3Environmental
Tom Lent, Policy Director, Healthy Building Network
Innovation, Clean Tech & Idea Funding
Paul Holland, General Partner, Foundation Capital
Jonathan Solomon, Keiretsu Forum
Rachel Sheinbein, Keiretsu Forum
Nancy Klein, Director of Corporate Outreach, City of San Jose
Innovations and Initiative Development
David Sibbet, President, Grove Design & Consulting
Myan Baker, Senor Consultant, Economic Transformations Group
Jon Alexander, Sunshine Construction LLC
Celia Canfield, Eco Vertex
Interior Design
Deborah Coburn, President, Naturally Inspired
Kari Foster, Interior Designer, Associates 3
Rowena Finean, Owner, Principal Designer, Eco-terric
Networking & Social Events
Timonie Hood, Green Building Coordinator, U.S. EPA Region 9
Stacey Frost, Urban Re:Vision
Dev Novack, Marketing, Data Analysis and Communications, Luminesa
Stories from Luminaries
David Johnston, President, What's Working
Sarah Susanka, Architect, Author, The Not So Big House, Susanka Studios
Sustainable & New Business Strategies
Gil Friend, CEO, Natural Logic
Jay Haynes, Presidio School of Management
Nathan Shedroff, Program Chair, MBA in Design Strategy, California College of the Arts
Technology & Materials
Alex Wilson, Founder & President, Building Green, Inc.
Miriam Landman, Green Building Advisor, M. Landman Communications & Consulting
Jessie Denver, Environmental Services Department, Office of Sustainability, City of San Jose
Rich Turner, The Tech Museum of Innovation
Water & Landscaping
Gary Klein,
Josiah Cain, Landscape Architect and Ecological Designer, Rana Creek Living Architecture
Andy Mannie, Arc Wire
Lorraine White, CA Energy Commission
Alice Ringer, City of San Jose
Ralph Mize, City of San Jose, Department of Transportation
