THE CONTRIBUTORS Meet the people behind the bylines
Christina Birchfi eld lives and works in Washington, D.C., where she’s updgraded 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.
Joseph King is the Media Relations Manager for the Institute for Business
& Home Safety in Tampa, FL. The IBHS’ mission is to reduce the social and economic eff ects of natural disasters and other property losses by conducting research and advocating improved construction, maintenance and preparation practices. IBHS provides
DisasterSafety.org as a service to homeowners and small business owners as part of its overall mission of reducing property losses..
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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