Northwest Advisory Board

 

Paul Crane, ASLA, B.L.A., M.A.
Environmental Planner, Sustainability Coordinator, Landscape Architect
City of Everett, Washington


As a licensed Landscape Architect, member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and a past member of the American Planning Association, Paul brings over twenty years of regional and international professional design and planning experience in the private and public sectors. His work has included comprehensive environmental analysis and design solutions for: Ecological, Terrestrial and Cultural Restoration Plans, contributing to Environmental Impact Statements / Biological Reviews and Assessments, permit applications, industrial facility master plans, commercial development, endangered species habitat related projects, conceptual land development plans, complex interagency and tribal land use negotiations, permitting applications, project collaboration and mitigation design.

Paul wrote the City of Everett LEED/LID draft ordinance and co-authored the final ordinance that requires all new city buildings to meet LEED Silver standards.

In 1995 and 1996, Paul received the King County Economic Development Council Diamond Award winner for Site Commute Reduction, Boeing Renton Facilities. Has was honored by former Seattle Mayor Paul Schell for work as Chairperson of the I-90 Development Advisory Committee and-Co-Author of the I-90, Seattle Corridor, Development Policies. And, received a Design award for the first bio-engineered bank restoration design on the Duwamish River, City of Tukwilla.

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Kirk is a small forest landowner with a 30-acre tree farm near Oakville, Washington where he manages a regenerating forest and develops experimental agroforestry systems. Kirk has worked on strategies for combining rural economic development with environmental enhancement in the Pacific Northwest for over 10 years. In 1996 Kirk founded Permaculture West, a non-profit organization that provided educational and training programs on sustainable forest and farm management for private landowners.

In 1999 Kirk worked with a private fisheries consultancy on Critical Areas Ordinance issues pertaining to farming and riparian areas in the Skagit Valley. In 2000 Kirk helped found the Small Forest Landowner Office in the Washington State Department of Natural Resources where he assisted family forest landowners across the state in finding financial and technical assistance. Kirk graduated from The Evergreen State College in 1995 with a B.S. in Sustainable Resource Management. His professional affiliations include the Washington Farm Forestry Association, Forest Guild and Family Forest Foundation.

Read Kirk's article describing his bamboo agroforestry farm projects at the Wild Thyme Farm in Oakville, WA.

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Ron Harris-White, M.P.A.
Managing, Special Projects
Seattle Parks & Recreation
City of Seattle, Washington

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Derek Hoshiko
Co-founder, Web Collective, Inc.
Board Chair, BALLE Seattle, (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies)

Derek has worked with BALLE Seattle, the local network of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, for over four years.  He is the co-founder and project manager at Web Collective, Inc., a  Seattle-based employee-owned cooperative.

Derek considers himself an activist entrepreneur and believes strongly that business can be successful and infused with values. He strives to create lasting change in himself and in the groups, and organizations he touches through daily practices aimed to increase consciousness in every action.

 
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Kay Howe
Director, Community, Arts, Recreation and Education (CARE) Coalition

Kay brings a wealth of experience as an organic farmer, migratory beekeeper, alternative builder, educator, community activist and artist.  Spanning communities and cultures from Hawaii, the Pacific Northwest and northern California, and forests of Borneo and Indonesia, her teaching and expertise engages groups and communities on projects of environmental education, ecological restoration and sustainable community development.

When not working with NGOs and schools in Indonesia, Kay directs the development of the CARE Coalition, based in Concrete, WA. CARE works with local PNW communities, with an emphasis on youth involvement, to provide facilities and opportunities for the arts, recreation, education and sustainable development.

Read more about her work here. 

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Ben Kaufman
Principal, GreenWorks Realty

Ben is the Founder and Designated Broker of GreenWorks Realty managing over $60 Million in real estate transactions. Ben uses his vision and passion to promote GreenWorks Realty's mission to improve the livability and sustainability of our community.

Ben holds a BA in Urban Planning from the University of Washington, a Professional Commercial Real Estate Certificate from the University of Washington, a Permaculture Design Certificate from Crystal Waters, Australia, and a Certified New Home Sales Professional Certificate. Prior to founding GreenWorks, Ben co-founded Co-Opportunities Northwest, a 2001 conference to identify and advance emerging trends in sustainable community development in Puget Sound and participated in the Governor's Sustainability Roundtable in 2002.

Ben has been active in low impact land development and marketing and selling real estate for 15 years and recently retired as the Treasurer of the Northwest Eco-Building Guild and is the Board Chair of the Seattle/King County Built Green program and a board member of the Master Builders Association. Ben is also a manager and investor of a recently permitted 32-home sustainable community development in Newcastle, WA.

Ben's recent achievements include drafting the Environmental Certification checkbox additions to his local MLS (Northwest Multiple Listing Service) and authoring the first study using MLS data to compare environmentally certified homes to non-certified homes in the United States. Ben also helped develop GreenWorks Realty's 14 clock-hour state approved class, Green Agent Essentials, for local Real Estate Agents. The Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish County recently awarded Ben with a "Built Green™ Pioneer Award" at the 2009 Built Green Conference in Seattle.

Ben's other passions are ski mountaineering, rock climbing, and time in nature with his wife Heather.

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Patrick Mazza
Research Director, Climate Solutions

Patrick has written on ecological sustainability issues for nearly three decades as an environmental journalist and technology policy analyst. A founding member of the Climate Solutions team, Mazza has written a number of papers aimed at improving public understanding of climate change science and accelerating clean energy development.

Patrick’s key papers on emerging clean energy systems include The Smart Energy Network: Electricity’s Third Great Revolution; Powering Up the Smart Grid; Carrying the Energy Future: Comparing Hydrogen and Electricity for Transmission, Storage and Transportation, and The New Harvest: Biofuels and Wind Power for Rural Revitalization and National Energy Security.

He is author and co-author of many publications, including with Guy Dauncey Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change (New Society, 2001) and more recently, Building the Biocarbon Economy: How the Northwest Can Lead.

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Melanie Mercer, M.A.
Development Associate, Pacific Northwest Region
The Wilderness Society