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THE CONTRIBUTORS Meet the people behind the bylines


Christina Birchfi eld lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she’s upgraded her windows and has done a green remodel of her 100-year-old condo. She doesn’t have a car; instead, she walks or takes Metro. She has been writing about sustainability and green building since 1978.


Stacy Hunt is a writer and communications consultant with more than a decade of experience in the green building industry. Her business helps to uncomplicate the complicated for a variety of government, corporate, and nonprofi t clients, including the U.S. Department of Energy. She and her family live and work on the side of a mountain in Missoula, Mont., and do their best to produce their own food in an unforgiving climate.


Dan McCue has written on everything from international trade, business, and law to politics, the arts, science, and the environment. A multi- award winner for his work in daily and weekly newspapers, Dan also has considerable experience in radio and television, and extensive experience in writing and/or editing for newsletters, magazines, and the Web. He and his wife, Beth, live in Charleston, S.C.


Charlie Wardell is a writer and editor who focuses on home building. He became fascinated with energy and resource effi ciency after attending his fi rst EEBA conference in 1990, and has been researching and writing about those topics ever since. Before becoming a writer, Wardell spent 10 years as a fi eld carpenter and remodeler. He lives in southeastern Massachusetts.





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It’s not whether you get


knocked down, it’s whether


you get up. —Vince Lombardi


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