Charlie Anderson is the chairman of the Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee that has been charged with overseeing the allocation of the $184,000 collected annually in student fees for renewable energy purchases. Charlie was heavily involved in the referendum that won 75% support for the $4 increase in student fees for green energy. He works regularly with University administrators as a representative of UNC's Student Congress.

Brent Blackwelder has served as an environmental advocate in our nation’s capital for over 30 years. In 1994 he became president of Friends of the Earth and is the most senior environmental lobbyist in Washington. He has testified in front of Congress on pressing environmental issues more than 100 times.

Brent was founder and first chairman of the board of American Rivers, our nation's leading river-saving organization. He also founded the Environmental Policy Institute, which merged with Friends of the Earth in 1989.

As a leader in the effort to save rivers, Brent helped expand the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System from eight rivers in 1973 to over 160 today. He also worked to eliminate over 200 dams and stream channelization projects, which would have destroyed rivers, wetlands, wildlife and areas of special scientific value.

Brent initiated campaigns to reform the World Bank and succeeded in getting Congress to enact a series of significant reforms directing the Bank and other multilateral lending institutions to pay more attention to the environment.

Brent serves on the board of directors of the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and 20/20 Vision. He graduated summa cum laude from Duke University and received an M.A. in mathematics from Yale, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Maryland.

Doug Brinkley, a principal architect with PBC+L, has extensive experience in educational, institutional, and industrial projects. He has expertise in analyzing, coordinating, and implementing Life Safety Codes as well as the design of exterior skins of the building envelope. He has been a speaker at National and International conferences on “Thin Cladding Systems, Their Analysis and Design” for the American Institute of Architects and the Association for Preservation Technology. He recently co-authored the Life Cycle Cost Analysis Guide for the State of North Carolina and has been a speaker on this publication at the Annual State Construction Conference.

Rachel Burton is an automotive instructor for Central Carolina Community College . At CCCC, she teaches a Biofuels course in conjunction with the Sustainable Agriculture Program. Rachel is also a Graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and CCCC in the areas of sustainable agriculture and Automotive Technology. She has studied and participated in alternative fuels programs or vehicle emissions training state and nationwide- Solar Energy International, Biodiesel Council of California , Iowa Sate University , Warren Wilson College, NC State University, and Carolina Farm Stewardship Association

Maureen graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 2002 with a degree in International Development Studies. As a student, she coordinated the "UC Go Solar" campaign that successfully pressured the University of California to adopt a comprehensive Clean Energy & Green Building Policy. Now at Greenpeace, Maureen works with students across the country to promote clean energy solutions on campus. Contact: maureen.cane@sfo.greenpeace.org or 415-255-9221 x318

Kelly Davis is the Campus Greening Coordinator at the Environmental Leadership Center of Warren Wilson College, where she is also a student. Originally from Austin, Texas, Kelly is a senior majoring in Social and Environmental Politics. As the greening coordinator, Kelly, performs a number of tasks, including: conducting research to make informed decisions concerning green energy and design, organizing events and speakers on campus, educating the campus community about ways to be more green in their individual choices, and informing the outside community about WWC’s sustainability. At the conference, Kelly will be presenting Campus Greening Seed Grants, a program by which students can gain real world experience applying for grants and implementing their ideas of how to make their campus more sustainable.

Mr. Dudzik is developing the marketing strategy for Carolina Green Energy, a start-up renewable energy generator in North Carolina. Prior to joining Carolina Green Energy, LLC., Mr. Dudzik led the launch of the digital wireless service in the Southeast US for AT&T, serving as their Vice President of Marketing. Before joining AT&T, Mr. Dudzik held senior marketing and sales management positions with GTE Wireless and Volvo Cars of North America. Mr. Dudzik has over 20 years of experience in marketing operations, new product introductions and new business development. Mr. Dudzik lives in Apex, NC.

Mike Ewall is a full-time volunteer who has been involved in grassroots environmental justice organizing since 1991. His accomplishments include defeating two incinerator projects in his home county near Philadelphia and helping halt a nuclear waste dump that was to be built in Pennsylvania. His experiences range from fighting for environmental justice in rural and suburban communities in Pennsylvania to helping protest environmental racism in the state's urban centers (primarily Chester, Harrisburg and in Philadelphia, where large polluting industries exist and where more have been proposed).

Ewall lives in Philadephia, where he runs the ACTION Center, an activist house where recent students are housed and fed in exchange for activist work. Since 1995, he's been a leader in student and anti-corporate movements, serving in various roles in the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), a national organization that he helped relocate to Philadelphia in 1997. He is also a co-founder of the student anti-corporate group called the 180 Movement for Democracy and Education. He currently serves on SEAC's national speaker's bureau and has spoken on more than 20 topics in 24 states.

Since Pennsylvania deregulated its electric industry in 1999, Ewall has been focusing on energy marketing issues. That year, he launched a boycott of Green Mountain Energy in order to call attention to their marketing of dirty and deceptive energy products. He's currently working on building a new national organization on energy issues called the Energy Justice Network, in which he's helping advance clean energy policies while aiding grassroots fights against "biomass" incinerators, gas-fired power plants and other dirty energy technologies. He is the author of the nation's strongest and cleanest Renewable Portfolio Standard legislation, introduced in Pennsylvania's state senate in 2003.

Susan Gouchoe is Policy Program Manager for the North Carolina Solar Center at North Carolina State University. Her work focuses on researching, analyzing, and disseminating information about government and utility financial incentives, regulatory policies, and awareness programs that promote renewable energy and energy efficiency across the United States. She manages the nationally-recognized Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE, www.dsireusa.org) and regularly presents to national audiences on the status of state renewable energy policies. She recently led a national effort sponsored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to evaluate the effectiveness of state financial incentive programs and is currently working on a national photovoltaics market analysis for the commercial sector. Ms Gouchoe has published several reports and technical papers on these topics.

Before joining the North Carolina Solar Center, Susan served as the Assistant Director of the New Hampshire Pollution Prevention Program and as an environmental consultant. In these roles she worked with academia, government, and industry to promote pollution prevention from technical, policy, and program development perspectives.

Susan holds a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University, an M.A.T. in Biology from Brown University, and a joint M.S. in Urban Environmental Policy and Civil Environmental Engineering from Tufts University.

Gary Harris developed and implemented TVA's Green Power Switch (GPS). The first and largest renewable-energy program in the Southeast, GPS won a TVA Environmental Excellence Award for its continued success in gaining partnerships and public involvement. More than 7,100 residents and 358 businesses in the Tennessee Valley currently are purchasing green power. Since then, it has earned top-10 national rankings from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory two years in a row, in addition to other top honors.

Mr. Hathaway is the current Director of the Clean Power Program at the Environmental Resources Trust, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, Mr. Hathaway supports efforts by commercial and industrial firms and governmental entities to purchase and generate power from renewable energy resources. He is involved with deploying, certifying and marketing the energy from solar, wind, hydropower, and landfill gas to electricity (LFGTE) green power supplies.

His activities include marketing “green power” for the recently constructed 4.5 MW Wind Plant on the Straits of Mackinac for Consumers Energy Green Power Program, substantiating and marketing 300,000 MW of LFGTE for ComEd and the City of Chicago, and marketing and building a 70 kW Solar Array for the Old Mill Power Company in Virginia. Mr. Hathaway also serves as a recruiter for the EPA's Green Power Partnership Program, where he has successfully recruited many large organizations, including City of Chicago and the State of Illinois as well as Fortune 500 companies.

E. Thomas Henkel is a Strategic and Solar HVAC Specialist for Solargenix Energy (formerly Duke Solar Energy) and a Consulting Engineer for Aspen Systems Corporation of Rockville, MD. He now assists Solargenix in designing and marketing solar absorption HVAC systems and solar CHP systems. The most recent plants put into operation are a 50-ton Broad 2E absorption chiller driven by a tracking Power Roof system in Raleigh, NC and a 30-ton Yazaki 1E absorption chiller driven by non-evacuated collectors in Austin, TX.

Education: AB, Columbia College; M.Ed., M.S., Ph.D, University of Toledo

Eric Henry , President, has lived in Burlington for most of his life. Eric attended both N.C. State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , but also could not contain his entrepreneurial spirit. While at UNC-CH, Eric was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and started Creative Screen Designs, which sold screenprinted apparel to the college market. Before the start of his senior year, Eric left to become a partner with Tom Sineath at T.S. Designs, Inc. In addition to his responsibilities at T.S. Designs, Eric devotes a lot of time to volunteer organizations. He serves on the executive board of the Screenprint and Graphic Image Association, where he was the chairperson from 2001-2002, the board of the Piedmont Land Conservancy, the Board of Advisors for the Martha & Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University, the Board of Advisors for the Elon University Center for Environmental Studies. In addition, Eric is a past member of the Burlington Bicycle Advisory Board and recently served on the Alamance County Planning Board. He received the 2003 Governor's Conservation Achievement Award from NC Wildlife Federation. His latest endeavor is starting www.localaction.biz To develop resources from our local community of Alamance County that supports our community with the first project involving biodiesel which he has set up a small batch processor at TSD.

Dr. Alex Hobbs, PE has more than 30 years of engineering experience in the areas of electric power generation and delivery, water and wastewater treatment, as well as production agriculture and food processing. He has worked as a design/startup engineer and as project manager on internal combustion turbine generator, coal and oil fired boiler, and light water nuclear plant projects. As an in-house consultant for a major southeastern utility, he has led applied research and development programs to evaluate advanced power production techniques, development and combustion of biomass based renewable fuel resources, new environmental assessment and remediation technologies and innovative load management equipment and strategies.

Dr. Hobbs’ is currently the Interim Director of the NC Solar Center with an Adjunct faculty position in the Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dept at NC State University. He is leading the DOE funded Agriculture Industry of the Future effort in NC to promote energy efficiency and development of biobased energy resources and products. In addition, He is involved with efforts to develop a NC Combined Heat and Power Application Center at NC State University. Dr. Hobbs’ widely varied work experiences reflect his interest in maximizing energy and water resource utilization while minimizing waste.

Dr. Hobbs received his PhD in Civil Engineering (Environmental) from North Carolina State University in 1988. He also holds a MS in Civil Engineering (Environmental) and a BS in Chemical Engineering from NCSU.

Sam Hummel recently graduated from Duke with a BA in Computer Science. He was hired by the University to work full time on campus sustainability as the program coordinator of the Duke University Greening Initiative. As an undergraduate, Sam was heavily involved in biodiesel, green energy, and conservation projects initiated by Environmental Alliance, Duke's undergraduate environmental student organization. He also worked regularly with administrators as a member of Students Against Sweatshops and Progressive Alliance.

It is good to bring Jillian Johnson, one of Duke's talented alumnus organizers, back to share her expertise. As a member of Progressive Alliance, Students Against Sweatshops and the Student Employee Relations Committee, Jillian demonstrated exceptional meeting facilitation skills. Along with a critical analysis of the power dynamics that often hamper group decision-making, Jillian knows the secrets to making meetings engaging and fun.

Mr. Jones has played a key role in creating strategic partnerships with utility companies, environmental organizations, green product manufacturers and other strategic partners. One of his most significant achievements thus far has been a utility partnering program - the Green America Program™ - and related strategies for green energy marketing rollouts. Mr. Jones has been true to Sterling Planet's aim of partnering with utilities, having developed relationships with all three categories of electric utilities - from large investor-owned utilities to municipal utilities and rural electric cooperatives.

Prior to co-founding Sterling Planet, Mr. Jones core area of expertise has been information technology solutions for the electric utility industry.

Mr. Kalland’s current activities include directing the Solar Center's Policy Division as well as leading efforts to develop new research and programatic opportunities for the Solar Center. Steve is also involved in the development of a new NCSU Energy Institute that would include research in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and distributed energy technology.

Previously, Mr. Kalland served as project manager with McNeil Technologies, Inc. of Springfield, VA. Areas of emphasis included renewable energy programs support for the Department of Energy, as well as work with several NGOs, foundations, private companies, and state energy offices on energy, transportation, and climate change policy issues. Prior to joining McNeil, Mr. Kalland served as the director for Government Relations and Grid-Tied Markets at Xantrex Technology, Inc. (formerly Trace Engineering). Xantrex is based in Arlington, WA and Burnaby, British Columbia and is a leading producer of DC-to-AC power inverters, solar controllers, and other independent power systems and components.

Mr. Kalland is a past executive director of the Maryland-DC-Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association (MDV-SEIA), the regional chapter of the national Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). MDV-SEIA is a nonprofit trade association founded in 1984 to promote the economic application and public understanding of solar energy. Before that, Mr. Kalland was the director of State Programs and Policy Analysis at SEIA. Mr. Kalland also worked with the City of Rochester (NY) Department of Economic Development and the Council on Economic Priorities (CEP), a New York City-based think tank that tracks corporate "social responsibility" issues.

Mr. Kalland graduated in 1991 from the College of William and Mary in Virginia with a degree in Government and Psychology. In 1993 he received a master of science in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Rochester.

Christina Keller currently works as an Independent Consultant/Intern for Environmental Resources Trust Inc., an environmental non-profit organization that works with promoting alternative energy and registering carbon dioxide emission offsets. She has been working with developing the Solar Offset System, a system of registering small emissions. She helped test the system in their recent trip to Africa, and has been involved with analyzing results and preparing presentations. She helped organize the logistics of a Wind Energy Conference in Virginia. In addition she has been involved in compiling proposals and grants for funding.

In addition to her work at ERT Inc. she is currently a team leader for a group of High School students involved in a project of community development called Shaw EcoVillage. She organizes weekly activities for the students and helps then get involved in their community in a sustainable way.

Previously she worked in Peru with ARARIWA a Peruvian based non-governmental organization working with promotion of techno-Andean culture and small community development. She helped begin a program in rural area of Urubamba that empowered women and created jobs. She developed the idea, which expanded to other aspects of rural indigenous life and helped create jobs for a small region of Peru.

Kevin Lynn is a technical expert in the installation and maintenance of distributed-generation systems and has extensive experience in developing protocols for the installation and testing of renewable-energy systems.

Dennis Markatos is co-founder of the nonviolent network SURGE, which connects hundreds of activists all over the world to work for social, economic, and environmental justice as a united struggle. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in International Studies and Economics, he is employed with SURGE and another local nonprofit called CITCA, Carolina Interfaith Taskforce Connecting the Americas.

Sean Mullin coordinates EnviroCitizen's Training Tour, which provides organizing workshops for grassroots environmental organizations. He comes to the EnviroCitizen after having worked on a variety political campaigns, ranging from local races to President, in a variety of capacities. From Boston, where he was born and raised, to Montana, Sean has seen firsthand the difference political activism can make and is delighted to be able to work to benefit the environment. In addition to campaigns, Sean has also dabbled as a high school teacher and freelance writer.

Amber Munger is air quality program associate for Environmental Defense, a national non-profit that links science, economics, law and private-sector partnerships to create solutions to the most serious environmental problems. She has authored reports on diverse air quality issues including climate change in North Carolina and power plant pollution. She has worked to develop and support the "North Carolina Climate Change Education Partnership," a collaborative effort between scientists, science museums, government agencies and non-profits for the purpose of forwarding the understanding of climate change in North Carolina.

Colin Murchie joined SEIA in the summer of 2002, after graduating from Cornell University with a Bachelors of Science in Natural Resources Policy, Management, and Human Dimensions. His studies included coursework in both US and international environmental governance and policy development regimes, in addition to a strong background in chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering. He previously worked with Cornell's Institute for Resource Information Systems as a Research Assistant specializing in remote sensing, and was the Director of Cornell's Whistling Shrimp Comedy Improvisation. Mr. Murchie additionally holds U.S. Patent # 6,060,152.

He first came into contact with Mr. Hamer while pursuing research into the proposed Federal Renewables Portfolio Standard. Colin has served as SEIA's negotiator in the New York State Renewables Portfolio Standard process, as well as in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's development of interconnection standards for small, distributed generators. He has given testimony and presentations before the United States Department of Agriculture, the Maryland State Legislature, and other bodies. Colin is a passionate advocate for renewable energy.

Billy Parish is founder and director of The Climate Campaign, a coalition of 8 student environmental networks in the northeast advocating for campus, state and national solutions to climate change. He is the author of a resolution passed by the student governments of every Ivy League University calling for a 15% clean energy purchase by 2010, all new buildings built to LEED silver standards, and a major energy efficiency/conservation initiative. He is taking 2 years off from Yale University to direct The Climate Campaign, and hopes to help build regional student clean energy networks around the country.

John Powers is in charge of the residential sales division of Renewable Choice Energy. Renewable Choice is America’s leading grassroots marketer of wind power, in the form of Green-e certified renewable energy certificates. With clients ranging from individual families to Duke University and Whole Foods Market, Renewable Choice is dedicated to education and to growing the national demand for clean, renewable power sources. Renewable Choice was started by a group of environmentalists that met while attending the University of Colorado at Boulder. John graduated from Duke University in 2002 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering.

Ben Prater has been instrumental in winning Duke's commitment to green building. As the Chair of the student Green Building Committee, he has gotten students on to the design teams for every single new building on campus. Before he came to Duke as a graduate student, he was involved as an undergraduate in green building at Catawba College.

Matt Raker is recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Asheville . During college he conducted a greenhouse gas audit of the university. As well, he and a colleague developed a standard climate audit methodology that could help schools across the country conduct audits and then meaningfully compare results. This methodology was developed with the hope that once a standard measurement and monitoring tool was developed that colleges across the country could begin to set and pursue greenhouse gas emissions reduction objectives.

Kassie Rohrbach works at the Center for Resource Solutions in San Francisco, CA, as a Green-e Program Associate. Her main responsibilities include administering the Marketing Compliance Review for the Green-e Renewable Energy Certification Program, assisting with program development, and raising program awareness. Kassie graduated from Connecticut College with a degree in Gender and Women's Studies and a certificate in Environmental Studies and Conservation Biology. As an activist at Connecticut College, Kassie co-organized one of the first renewable energy campaigns in country during 2000-2001. Today, Connecticut College offsets 44% of its energy consumption with 100% New Wind Green-e Certified Tradable Renewable Certificates.

Dr. Dennis Scanlin is a professor in the Department of Technology at Appalachian State University. His areas of research include wind energy measurement and assessment, renewable electricity generation, and solar thermal technologies. Dr. Scanlin is currently operating an anemometer loan program that allows landowners in western NC to assess the potential for wind power at their site. In his work, he has become an expert on the feasibility of deploying wind energy systems in the Southeast.

Prior to assuming this position in late 2000, Mr. Shirley served for 13 years as the Executive Director of the NC Solar Center at NC State University. A part of NCSU’s College of Engineering, the Solar Center conducts professional training and outreach programs throughout NC, manages research and demonstration of new solar technologies, performs policy analysis on renewable energy issues, and provides educational services and information.

Prior to his position at the Solar Center, Mr. Shirley served as the Assistant Director of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation in Winston-Salem. He also founded the Nonprofit Energy Management Program for the Advanced Energy Corporation (1982-86) and was Director of Field Operations for the Center for Renewable Resources in Washington, DC (1978-1982). Mr. Shirley was elected as the Chairman of the American Solar Energy Society in 1996-97, was named as a Fellow of ASES in 2001, and was inducted into the NC Solar Hall of Fame in 2000. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina GreenPower Program and Interstate Renewable Energy Council. He also represents the State of North Carolina as Governor Easley’s Alternate on the Boards of the Southern States Energy Board, Governor’s Ethanol Coalition, and Southern Bio-based Alliance.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mr. Shirley has written and spoken extensively on energy policy, renewable energy development, financial incentives, and promotion, marketing and delivery of energy efficiency, alternative fuel and renewable energy programs.

Dr. Smith is currently a member of the national governing board of the Center for Resource Solutions' (CRS) National Green Power Accreditation process, the Green-E Certification Program. Green-e is the leading certifier of renewable energy products.

Stephen Smith is a veterinarian by training and co-founder of the Foundation for Global Sustainability. He has been Executive Director of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (formerly the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition) for eight years and has been involved in environmental policy issues for 18 years. Steve's experience includes testifying before Congress on the activities of TVA, serving on TVA's IRP Review Group for their 25-year energy plan and serving on a DOE advisory panel making recommendations to Congress and the Clinton administration on the future of TVA. Dr. Smith is currently a member of the national governing board of the Center for Resource Solutions' (CRS) National Green Power Accreditation process. He serves on TVA's Regional Resource Stewardship Council and TVA's Green Power Steering Committee. Dr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science in biology from Kentucky Wesleyan College (1988) and a Doctorate in Veterinarian Medicine from the University of Tennessee (1992).

Randy Udall has directed the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE), a nonprofit organization that promotes energy efficiency and renewable energy since 1994. CORE Director Udall also serves on the Board of Directors of Solar Energy International and Colorado Renewable Energy Society. CORE promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency in partnership with Holy Cross Energy, a rural electric utility serving 40,000 customers. Holy Cross leads the U.S. in the percentage of its customers who buy wind power. In 1998, CORE started the first “solar production incentive” program in the United States; the program pays customers who install PV systems 25¢/kilowatt-hour for their energy. Holy Cross has more grid-connected photovoltaic systems than any of the 930 rural electric utilities in the nation. Holy Cross’ wind, solar, and hydropower programs will keep 500 million pounds of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere over the next 20 years. In 2000, CORE started the nation’s first Renewable Energy Mitigation Fund, which has collected $1,000,000 in building permit fees to install renewable energy systems.

From 1982 until joining CORE, Randy Udall was a free-lance writer specializing in the environment and related scientific topics, including energy efficiency, green buildings, acid rain, groundwater depletion, energy, clean air, global warming, and biodiversity. He also edited the quarterly newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Institute, the world's foremost energy think tank. As a freelancer, Randy contributed articles to more than a dozen newspapers and magazines, including: National Wildlife, Audubon, Outside, Sierra, the Denver Post, and the Los Angeles Times.

Liz Veazey has been a leader in UNC-Students for Environmental Action Committee. Instrumental in shaping UNC's green energy referendum, she worked closely with all stakeholders on campus to build a strong coalition. The referendum passed with 75% support.

Born and raised in Burlington, NC, Jim began as executive director of NC WARN in 1993. He received an accounting degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, and has been an activist with various social justice organizations since the mid-1980s.