Big Green: pioneers of green building--who are they?

[Mike O'Brien]

It's a long and lovely list, for sure., full of generous and creative  
spirits.

I would like to suggest a good friend, Steve Loken, of Loken Builders  
in Missoula.

Steve designed and built ReCraft '90, a demonstration house for  
resource efficient materials, and traveled the nation telling people  
about it. The house and an interview appeared in Parade magazine.  
Steve's 1991 visit to Portland and his talk about the house led  
directly to Portland's first demonstration green home, the HERE Today  
house, which in turn engendered the Earth Smart green home  
certification program.

He also founded the Center for Resourceful Building Technologies (now  
part of NCAT in Butte), and helped write the GREBE guide, which may  
have been the first guide to recycled content materials. Steve  
enlightened many of us about salvage, reuse, recyling, recycled- 
content materials and embodied energy.

Steve has inspired many people, including myself.

Mike O'Brien






On May 22, 2008, at 9:26 AM, bilrob at silcom.com wrote:

> I would add Mark LaLiberte to this list.
> Mark is one of the most compelling and coherent evangelists for  
> durable, energy
> efficient and healthy building practices.
> http://laliberteonline.blogspot.com/
>
> Bill Robinson
> Train2Build
>
> Quoting Jesse Thompson <jesse at kaplanthompson.com>:
>
>> My short list of Residential Pioneers (it's New England / cold  
>> climate
>> biased):
>>
>> Marc Rosenbaum: http://www.energysmiths.com/
>> Mechanical engineer, low energy guru, tireless cold climate energy
>> advocate.
>>
>> Building Science Corporation, Betsy Pettit & Joe Lstiburek:
>> http://www.buildingscienceconsulting.com/about/who/default.htm
>> Affordable green housing, great technical lecturers, leaders in
>> durable buildings.
>>
>> Katrin Klingenberg, E-co Lab @ U of Illinois :
>> http://www.e-colab.org/ecolab/Contact.html
>> http://www.passivehouse.us/passiveHouse/PHIUSHome.html
>> Chief proselytizer for the German Passivhaus program in the US, has
>> really turned the American "buy a bunch of gadgets and bolt them on
>> the roof" mentality on its head for us.
>>
>> Bruce Coldham, Coldham & Hartman Architects:
>> http://www.coldhamandhartman.com/
>> Western Mass architect, lots of co-housing, green from the beginning.
>>
>> Jesse Thompson, AIA, LEED AP
>> Kaplan Thompson Architects
>> 424 Fore St
>> Portland, ME  04101
>>
>> p: 	207 842-2888
>> f:	207 842-2828
>>
>> jesse at kaplanthompson.com
>> http://www.kaplanthompson.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 22, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Lisa Selin Davis wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, guys. I'm trying to compile a list of the most important green
>>> building movers and shakers currently--folks like Ed Mazria, or even
>>> Michael Reynolds, the earthship designer, who might be changing the
>>> way we think about and make green buildings. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lisa
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