“Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the
future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and
materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and
more sustainable future. Inhabitat was started by NYC designer Jill
Fehrenbacher as a forum for investigating emerging trends in product, interior,
and architectural design. Managing Editor Mike Chino and Senior Editor Yuka Yoneda lead the
editorial team, while Rebecca Paul steers business operations. The rest of the
team is made up of the best design editors and writers from all over the world:
Diane Pham (Architecture and Design Editor), Jessica Dailey (New York Editor),
Bridgette Meinhold (Architecture Editor), Jasmin Malik Chua (copy editor +
fashion editor at Ecouterre) and Julie Seguss (kids & wellness editor).
THE INHABITAT TEAM - JILL FEHRENBACHER (Founder, Editor-in-Chief) - Jill
Fehrenbacher, Publisher of Inhabitat.com, Founder of Inhabitat, Editor-in-chief
of Inhabitat, Inhabitat founder, Inhabitat editor, green designer, Jill is the
founder of Inhabitat, as well as a LEED-AP green designer and green design
consultant based in New York City. She created Inhabitat in the Spring of 2005
as a way to catalog her search for new ways to improve the world through
forward-thinking, high-tech, and environmentally conscious design. Educated at Brown University,
where she received a B.A. in Art Semiotics, and Columbia
University, where she’s pursuing a
Masters of Architecture, she currently resides in New York City, which so far has been good for
her obsession with rooftop farming and vegan fast food restaurants.
MIKE CHINO (Managing Editor) - Mike is a
writer, researcher, and musician based in San
Francisco. He left sunny UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in
French and Modern literature and delved into publishing through a stint at
ReadyMade Magazine. Inspired by the impact that forward thinking can have on
the present, he has cultivated a voracious appetite for developments in
sustainable architecture, design, and technology. Mike likes to bike, blog, and
build things, and in his spare time he also cooks, produces music, and rocks
out.
YUKA YONEDA (Senior Editoryukabiopic) - Yuka
is a writer and designer from Queens,
New York. She received her
bachelor’s in business management from Stony Brook
University, and holds a
degree in exhibition design from the Fashion Institute of Technology. In 2008,
Yuka looked in the mirror and didn’t like what she saw. Always feeling like
there was something missing from her life, she had turned to excess, amassing a
mountain of clothes, shoes, bags, and random tchotchkes to fill the void. In an
act of desperation, she founded Swyyne.com as a guide for urbanites wanting to
change their piggish ways and has been learning and smiling more ever since.
When she isn’t writing about sustainable design, Yuka amuses herself by making
trash into treasure, hunting for goodies at her favorite thrift shop, and
offering up vintage, secondhand and refashioned clothes from her own closet to
raise money for Japan.
REBECCA PAUL (Business Operations Manager) - Rebecca
is a designer, portrait painter, installation artist and writer. After
receiving her BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design – Rebecca moved
to Los Angeles
where she worked as a resident artist for The Hive Gallery and Studios in the
emerging downtown art scene. During her time on the west coast she also acted
as a Freelance Curator where she produced several art shows converting raw
spaces throughout the city into dynamic backdrops for a variety of mediums.
Uninspired by the contemporary art market – Rebecca is currently living in Brooklyn and has shifted her career path to focus on
sustainable design and architecture. She plans to pursue her Masters degree in
industrial design, so she can further her contribution to the field.
DIANE PHAM (Architecture and Design Editor) - Diane
is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn,
NY. After graduating from USC’s Marshall School,
she enjoyed a brief stint at SCI-Arc, then working for the A+D Museum in Los Angeles, Perkins
Eastman Architects and Resoultion4: Architecture handling their marketing, PR
and graphic work. A native Angeleno, she’s also lived in Milan
and Paris, and still has her sights set beyond
the borders of the US.
In her spare time she enjoys traveling, learning languages, playing drums,
taking photographs and doing as many new things as she can, every moment she
can.
JASMIN MALIK CHUA (Ecouterre Editor) - A 14-year
veteran of the publishing industry, Jasmin joins Ecouterre from TreeHugger,
where she wrote about sustainable fashion and beauty. She has an M.S. in
biomedical journalism from New
York University—she
was a founding fellow of the literary reportage program—and a B.S. in animal
biology from the National University of Singapore. In addition to stories
published in online and print publications like Alive, Plenty, The Huffington
Post, and Sprig, Jasmin has been quoted as a green expert by such publications
and outlets as The New York Times, BBC Radio, BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and
People. Jasmin was previously a copy editor for Computer Shopper and PRINT.
(She still reads style guides for fun.)
JESSICA DAILEY (New York Editor) - Jessica is a
Brooklyn-based freelance journalist. A Pittsburgh
native, she moved to New York
to pursue her love of writing. She holds bachelor’s degrees in English and Art
History from the University
of Pittsburgh and
received her master’s from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. She loves
reporting on art, food, and the green community in New York City. When she’s not searching for
the next best story, she spends her time foraging at Greenmarkets, whipping up
new recipes, and exploring the city’s endless art scene.
JULIE SEGUSS (Inhabitots Editor) - Julie is a
freelance writer living in Brooklyn,
NY with her husband and French
Bulldog Leo. She also blogs about green living at EcoSalon.com and writes
regularly for MNN.com. Her articles have also appeared in Parents, Kiwi,
iVillage.com and numerous other magazines, websites and blogs. Beyond writing,
Julie loves all things related to health and fitness. She holds a personal
trainer certification from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and is
founder of JivaFit, a health and wellness blog with a green twist. .
KESTREL JENKINS (Operations Assistant ) - Whether
the driving force was language or fashion, Kestrel’s interest in global issues
has led her around the world. After growing up in a littleMississippi
River town in Wisconsin,
she worked as a journalist with El Diario Austral in Chile,
did PR for People Tree in London, and taught
English on a Fulbright in Madrid,
Spain. She
found all of her interests collide in ethical fashion and sustainability, where
her energy and spirit inspire a thirst to understand more and more about the
field. She has a B.A. from Hamline
University in global
studies, international journalism, and Spanish. She currently works as a PR
& Research Associate for Global Action Through Fashion. In honor of her pledge
to only be ethical in her clothing purchases for 365 days, she posts weekly
“looks” on her blog, Make Fashion Fair.
DANIEL MENDES (Operations/Contributing Writer)
- Dan graduated from Stony Brook University with a Business Management degree
with a focus in marketing, something he uses to connect his studio art
experience to real world creative applications. An avid longboarder and
musician he spends his free time unwired from our ever increasingly digital
world while contemplating the direction of modern society and it’s effect on
our environment and humanity. His interests are vast and constantly fluctuating
in scope and importance and hope’s to make is mark in the world in a positive
and meaningful way.
NICOLE ABENE (Contributing Writer) - Nicole is
a recent graduate of NYU’s Environmental Studies program. Growing up by the
beach in New Jersey,
she fell in love with the outdoors and has been trying to find a way to live in
harmony with it ever since. She has worked with organizations to promote urban
gardening, waste reduction, and energy efficiency in New York City. Nicole enjoys camping,
knitting, and continuously attempting to bake the perfect cupcake.
MARK BOYER (Weekend Editor) - Mark is a
freelance writer, photographer and videographer based in Chicago. A native of Buffalo,
NY, he came to the Midwest to study literature
at the University
of Chicago. Hungry to
learn where our food comes from, he co-founded OrganicNation.tv in 2009, and
spent the next year and a half traveling around the country and reporting on
the organic food movement. He is currently the editor of Curbed Chicago. When
he’s away from his keyboard, Mark is probably cruising around Chicago on his bike, photographing old
buildings.
LAURA COWAN (Transportation Editor) - Laura K.
Cowan is a writer and editor from Ann
Arbor, Michigan. She
received her bachelors in English and Russian language and literature from the University of Michigan and has ten years of experience
in automotive media, book publishing, and blogging on sustainable living
topics. Convinced there was a sweet spot where green parenting met frugality,
she founded 29Diapers.com, a blog that teaches parents how to raise a green
baby on a budget, and published EcoFrugal Baby: How To Save 70% Off Baby’s
First Year. She contributes to Inhabitat on the subject of sustainable
transportation and is the only mom blogger in existence who can explain
variable valve timing and parallel hybrid drivetrains.
BETHBETH SHEA (Inhabitots Editor) - Beth is a
Senior Editor of Inhabitots, and the writer and founder of Petite Planet, a
blog which focuses on eco-friendly living for families, and informs parents of
the best “green” choices for their children and our planet. After earning her
B.A. in Creative Writing from The University of Arizona, she explored the world
as a travel and spa writer, reporting for multiple newspaper and magazine
publications. After having her daughter, Beth swapped airline miles and body
wraps for long stroller walks and quick showers. Beth loves writing and editing
for several parenting and eco based websites while reporting from the home
front with firsthand accounts of raising her son and daughter. There’s a
humorous memoir brewing in her daily, which will most likely have to wait to
find its way to the page until her kids leave for college.
BRIDGETTE MEINHOLD (Architecture Editor) - Bridgette
is a LEED accredited sustainability consultant based in Park City, UT
and helps individuals and companies reduce their environmental impact. With
degrees in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, she has experience in
renewable energy, energy efficiency, green building and sustainable
development. She has written for Low Impact Living and Evolo Magazine. When
she’s not calculating carbon footprints, recycling materials into new things,
or writing blog posts, she spends her time with her dog hiking in the woods,
skiing and painting in her recycled shipping container studio. She recently got
married to the man of her dreams, a handsome firefighter/paramedic. And she is
currently trying to talk herself into writing her first novel, which will most
definitely have something to do with sustainability.
ANDREW MICHLER (Green Building Writer) - Living
off-the-grid in the foothills of the colorful Colorado Rocky Mountains, Andrew
Michler LEED AP BD+C and his wife Jennie are learning firsthand what low
entropy really means. He built a tire wall shop, catches the snow to feed his
WC, and built a modest home to the sun, wind and land. He calls the home’s
design Japanese Colorado. Turning his building background to a bit of an
obsession he started Baosol LLC Consulting which is concerned with developing
sustainable, adaptive building, a.k.a. our third skin. He believes that what we
build now creates the legacy of how we will live in the future. If he is not
busy writing, he is reading green building technical manuals, checking out new
building ideas, conceiving conceptual art installations, attempting to resist
the urge to have another local microbrew, or perhaps nothing at all.
BRIT LIGGETT (New York Editor) - Brit is a
video producer and writer out of Brooklyn,
New York. She has a degree in
Television and Documentary Production from Chapman University.
When she’s not behind the lens of a camera, the keyboard of her MacBook or out
on the green scene of NYC, she’s knitting, cooking local organic gourmet meals
from Alice Waters cookbooks and dreaming up new ideas for documentaries. She
currently has one eco-tinted art-doc idea in the oven and in the few free hours
she can find she’s researching and developing the project.
SHAYNE MCQUADE (Board Member & Business
Advisor Shayne McQuade, CEO of Voltaic, Voltaic Solar Backpacks, Voltaic Solar
Bags) - Shayne is a social entrepreneur with a passion for environmental
issues. He is the founder of solar bag maker Voltaic Systems. Having started,
run or sold multiple startups, he contributes breadth of experience to
Inhabitat’s board. Shayne’s background is in consulting with McKinsey & Co.
and KPMG in London, Taipei,
Melbourne and New York. He finally stopped moving when he
got to New York for an MBA at Columbia University. His next challenge is
designing off grid solar / lighting systems for developing countries, in the
hope their electrification can be sustainable.
THOMAS UGO ERMACORA (Strategic Partner & Business
Advisor) - Thomas Ugo Ermacora is a passionate Dano-Italian urbanist and
geographer acting mostly as a creative social entrepreneur focused on
sustainability. Unimpressed by the ethos in architecture and planning
professions after work with Zero Carbon projects in Europe, in particular on a
Frank Gehry Masterplan, he shifted towards a trust in participatory design
practices and started the visionary CLEAR Village Initiative to rethink space
one village at a time and focus on upgrading existing communities.
TIMON SINGH (News Writer) - Timon Singh is a
graduate of Liverpool
University where he
received a degree in Social and Economic History. He has previously worked for
the BBC’s “Who Do You Think You Are?” Magazine, a publication dedicated to the
popular genealogy show. He has also written extensively on all aspects of
worldwide infrastructure, including construction, renewable energy,
transportation, security and communications and waste management. He currently
resides in Bristol,
where when he’s not writing for Inhabitat, he feeds his film obsession by
writing for Den of Geek, and continues to hunt for the perfect pizza.
STARRE VARTAN (Contributing Writer) - Starre
Vartan has been an environmental journalist for almost a decade, focusing on
natural beauty, eco fashion and sustainable living on her blog, Eco Chick, on
which her book, The Eco Chick Guide to Life: How to Be Fabulously Green (St.
Martin’s Press), is based. Starre was chosen as one of Glamour Magazine’s
‘Green Women’ for their 70th anniversary issue last year, and has written for a
number of online and print venues, including guest-blogging at elle.com,
contributing to E/The Environmental Magazine, writing the ‘Green Guru’ column
at Audubon Magazine, and style editing at Plenty Magazine. She was most
recently managing editor for Greenopia.com. She is currently a regular
contributor to The Huffington Post in the Green and Style sections, as well as
writing for MNN.com. Starre has fun appearing on TV and radio as a green living
expert and also consults on green and lifestyle topics for Fortune 500
companies. Starre lives on the Connecticut
shore in a 100-year old Victorian house (that she is slowly greening) with a
rescued cocker spaniel and two fluffy cats. When not on the road visiting her
family in Australia or checking out swimming holes the world over, she gardens,
makes videos, hikes, mountain bikes and snowboards.
EVELYN LEE (Los Angeles Editor )- Evelyn is a
2012 dual degree candidate getting a sustainable MBA & MPA from the Presidio Graduate School.
Trained as an architect, she received her Masters in Architecture from the
Southern California Institute of Architecture’s (SCI-arc) Metropolitan Research
and Design Program. Prior to going back to school, she was program manager for
Public Architecture in San Francisco,
CA, where she oversaw all aspects
of their 1% Program, encouraging architects to give 1% of their time to the
public good, pro bono. Evelyn is constantly searching for new avenues to expand
her architectural knowledge, and is a freelance writer for a number of written
and online publications. When she’s away from the computer, Evelyn enjoys
running, playing the piano, driving her Prius, and coaching/playing soccer.
MEGHAN BEITIKS (Contributing Writer) - Meghan
Beitiks (Moe for short) is a writer, artist, gardener and biofuel lackey living
in Oakland, California. She was originally turned on to
the concept of sustainability while studying site-specific theatre on a
Fulbright scholarship in Latvia.
She spent the following years immersing herself in the worlds of organic
farming and recycled veggie oil fuels by working on a farm in Oklahoma and driving across the country in a
grease-powered veggie bus. Since then she’s sought every opportunity to combine
her passions for ecology and the arts in a manner that affects daily city life.
She is the Blog Editor for greenmuseum.org and a contributing writer on
environmental art for the lohasian. A certified Urban Permaculture designer,
she daydreams about bioremediative theater and is excited to be part of a
sustainable future.
ANA LISA ALPEROVICH (Contributing Writer) - Ana
Lisa is a trained eco-designer and sustainable culture producer from Buenos Aires. She
received her BA Hons from Goldsmiths, University of London,
a city where she spent most of her 20s and inspires her enormously. After
gaining experience on designing public events for [re]design through England and China, she went back to her
hometown to find out what was going on about her subject of study while she was
away. Impressed by the creative use of local resources, her love for sharing
knowledge and her belief in learning through experiences, she co-created the
Sustainable Festival. A 4-day educational not-for-profit event dedicated to the
celebration of emerging sustainable design practices, held at the luscious
Botanic Gardens in the heart of Buenos
Aires. Ana Lisa cannot help being an environmental
activist and is interested on discovering new eco-design concepts and learning
about the design of systems. She is a vegetarian who loves riding her
folding-bike, playing hand-ball, japanese culture, making her own clothes,
gardening and cats. She now works independently doing all sorts of things
related to critical sustainable design thinking and practices: she is a
consultant for big and small brands, a curator of exhibitions, workshops
organizer and now a contributing writer for Inhabitat!
LEA BOGDAN (Contributing Writer) - As
Chicago-based industrial designer and self-proclaimed master multi-tasker, Lea
is most excited that her career has been riddled with such a variety of
opportunities. Back in 2002, her sustainable design thesis at Philadelphia University
was internationally awarded the First Place Professional Winner of the
International Design Resource Awards and winner of the Saint Étienne
International Design Biennial award for eco design. She has been published in
the Eco Design Handbook, and is also a part of the permanent collection of the Huxley College
of the Environment at West
Washington University.
Her successive product design work and her time as a design professor at the
Art Institute in Philadelphia
have sufficiently kept her on her toes! Lea spends her days designing energy
efficient lighting, kitchen and bath fixtures, and a range of other products.
She also stays busy with her hobby of amateur photography.
CAMERON SCOTT (Contributing Writer) - Cameron
Scott is a freelance writer and editor and author of the blog The Thin Green
Line. A claustrophobic nature-lover, he self-interestedly hopes the planet and
the species will survive the mistakes of the industrial age. He’s especially
interested in how new ideas can protect the planet while also saving us money,
improving our health, or otherwise making life more pleasant. Cameron enjoys
hiking, biking, board games, and punk music.
- Lacking the
skills or the patience to be a designer herself, Haily Zaki is a PR maven,
freelance writer andsecret agent in Los Angeles who contents herself by
promoting, writing about, and surrounding herself with great design. Besides
running Secret Agent PR and working with some of the best architecture and
design brands in LA, Haily is a contributing writer for The Architect’s
Newspaper, the Epoch Times, and any other publication that likes her story
ideas. She’s also a co-organizer of de LaB (design east of La Brea) – part design lab, part
social experiment for creative professionals who work, live or play on the
Eastside of Los Angeles. She was first turned onto the idea of sustainable
living when she worked with the Mapuche people in Southern Chile and hopes one
day to move to the end of the earth where she would live happily in a green
prefab pod writing torrid romance novels. For now, she focuses her energy on
communicating through the media, re-training herself to be a good, green
consumer, and not killing her tomato plants.
HELEN MORGAN (Contributing Writer) - Helen is a
freelance journalist and photographer currently based in Buenos Aires. Moving
from London to
pursue a writing career, she enjoys the greener side of the literary capital by
riding her bike and visiting local markets. A graduate in Literature and
International Relations, she combines reporting on microfinance with policy
research for an NGO. But above all she loves to write about art and design,
sustainable initiatives and community schemes. To help seek out new article
ideas she tries different projects, most recently spending the summer working
on a French farm by watching sheep (which means running up and down mountains
and trying not loose them) and making organic cheese.
PIPER KUJAC (Contributing Writer ) - Piper is a
LEED accredited designer in San Francisco with architectural experience ranging
from project manager at C. David Robinson Architects to design consultant at
Origo, Inc., developing the Best House Ever business model. Trained in
Architecture at the environmentally-conscious University of Oregon,
she admits to an obsession with materials and resources and thrives on finding
new means and methods of sustainable design. She is co-chair of the NCC
Emerging Green Builders committee of the USGBC and teaches a class in
Sustainable Project Development at the UC Berkeley Extension. She enjoys
knitting, running marathons, and the occasional design competition, winning
first prize in the Green Dollhouse Competition. She also loves trekking through
virgin rainforests in Oregon, Thailand, Malaysia,
and Brazil,
where she recently fell in love with Ipe trees.
HAZEL SAUNDERSON (Contributing Writer) - Hazel is a Scottish designer, marketer and
writer. She studied design in three leading European design schools in Glasgow
(UK), Paris (France) and Cologne (Germany)
as part of the MEDes exchange program and graduated from the Glasgow School of
Art in 2008. Hazel is currently working for a not-for-profit organization,
where she is inspired by progressive design thinking and the power of social
media. She believes that good sustainable design should facilitate meaningful
dialogues with its users and provide people with an alternative means of interpreting
the roles that products and services play within their lives. A keen cyclist,
she writes a bicycle based blog and has written a report titled ‘An Exploration
of the Cycling Culture in Europe’. She also
loves cooking, photography and capoeira!
LORI ZIMMER (Contributing Writer) - Lori Zimmer
is a freelance writer, curator, art consultant and the creator of Art Nerd New
York- part travel guide, part art history, created for the art obsessed,
featuring art sites in NYC beyond the obvious and ordinary.
CLIFF CHAMPION (Contributing Writer) A
self-proclaimed “pragmatic idealist,” Cliff Champion is constantly on the prowl
for news about ideas that are shifting our global culture in a more positive
direction. He recently graduated from Pepperdine University
with a double major in French and Intercultural Communications, and is trying
to adjust to life outside of the proverbial nest. Next year, he will attend the
Associated Colleges in China
program in Beijing
to perfect his Mandarin, and to better acquaint himself with the growing
Chinese environmental movement. He also hopes to one day unify his jumbled
array of interests with a graduate degree in the field of sustainable design.
Until then, he will be spending his summer months in Connecticut and NYC before setting off for
the far east.
LEONEL PONCE (Contributing Writer) - Leonel is an architectural professional,
graphic designer, and photographer from Rio
de Janeiro. His exposure to Rio’s
failing infrastructure motivates a search for solutions to urban plight through
design. Since switching hemispheres, Leonel has lived in New
York, Texas, and Portugal, and traveled around Europe and Latin America, immersing himself in both regional and
cosmopolitan cultures. A graduate of The University of Texas in Austin’s School
of Architecture, he looks
to be involved in a greener, healthier planet. Leonel has volunteered with
Oxfam Action Corps NYC and the US Green Building Council, and participated in
design competitions through Architecture for Humanity and The Archive Institute.
He hopes to incorporate this experience, his time at Inhabitat, and his
graduate studies in Environmental Systems at The Pratt Institute into a career
in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure. While Leonel is an avid
city walker and explorer, he doesn’t mind if you take public transportation.
MOLLY COTTER
(Contributing Writer) - A Detroit native, Molly strongly supports the
movement for green design and innovation. She moved to New York years ago to attend the Christie’s
MA in Art Business program. After years of working with 19th Century American
paintings, she joined the living art world, and has become a freelance writer
and researcher for artists, galleries, and curators. She most recently spent a
summer studying Art Crime in Italy,
and that is all she is allowed to say about that.
WILL GIRON (Contributing Writer) - Will is a
freelance writer, researcher, photographer, and graphic designer, born and
raised in Queens, NY. He is currently completing his studies
in Photojournalism and Television/Film Production at St. John’s University.
His main areas of interest are in urban policy analysis, particularly in
community development, environmental sustainability, alternative energy,
transportation, and local politics. He currently maintains a blog covering and
promoting social/global justice and progressive policies through art and
activism. When not reporting, he is actively involved in the local NYC music
scene. He also enjoys competitive sports and recreational cycling.
TAFLINE LAYLIN (Contributing Writer) - After
receiving her B.A. from Northern Arizona University
in Flagstaff, Tafline led “eco-friendly” camping
trips throughout North America. It soon dawned
on her that she was instead leaving behind a trail of gas fumes, plastic
bottles and Pringles. In fact, wherever she traveled – whether it was Viet Nam or South
Africa or England
– it became clear how inefficiently the mandate to re-think our consumer
culture is reaching the general public. So she has picked up her mighty pen to
bring better exposure to environmental issues. At other times, she waxes
philosophical about culture and travel on her personal blog. Tafline was born
in Iran and raised in the United States, and is currently based in South Africa.
She also blogs for www.greenprophet.com and her work has appeared in Africa
Geographic, The Ecologist, Urban Green File, and other publications.
ALLISON LEAHY (Contributing Writer) - Allison
Leahy is a freelancer who writes with the aim of furthering the dialogue on
sustainability, climate change, and global health. She is a graduate of Vassar College
and currently lives in San Francisco.
Her interests include long bike rides on the beach, live music, home brews, raw
vegan cuisine, and people in costumes.
MARK LUKACH (Contributing Writer) - Mark Lukach
is a freelance writer based out of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, where he finds
the soothing snoring of his bulldog and the chill of the fog a perfect backdrop
for getting work done. When he’s not typing away at his laptop, he loves to get
outdoors and play in the ocean, ride his bike for way too long, or run barefoot
on the beach. His greatest design accomplishment is in his ability to make the
perfect milkshake.
EMILY PILLOTON (Senior Editor) - Emily Pilloton is Inhabitat’s senior editor,
and Founder of Project H Design, a charitable organization that supports,
inspires, and delivers product design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats,
Health, and Happiness. She is also a freelance design writer, furniture
designer, and nomad “based” in San Francisco.
Trained in architecture with degrees from UC Berkeley and the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, she has written for GOOD Magazine, Innovative Home, and
ID, and has also taught design theory in Chicago.
When she isn’t traveling or emailing, Emily enjoys baking cupcakes and playing
trivia board games.
SARAH RICH (Senior Editor) - Sarah Rich is a
writer and editor working where sustainability intersects with design,
architecture, art, food, urbanism, branding and consumer culture. She is an editor
at Dwell magazine and the editor of Dwell Digital. Previously Sarah was the
managing editor of Worldchanging and co-authored the book by the same name. She
launched and edited the Slow Food Nation blog in 2008 and co-founded the site
that emerged from that event, CivilEats.com. She lives in San Francisco.
JORGE CHAPA (Contributing Writer) - After
finishing his architecture degree at the University of Monterrey
in 2001, he realized that he wanted to focus on sustainable architecture, and
knew nothing about it. Foolishly thinking that it would become important in
fifteen years time, he packed up his suitcases, left Mexico
and headed for Australia,
where he studied a Masters in Design Science at the University of Sydney.
During his time in Sydney
he worked as an ESD consultant and product assessor, looking at everything from
the thermal performance of a building, to the environmental impacts of a
particular product. Currently working at the Green Building Council of
Australia, he continues in his quest to learn what sustainability is and how to
achieve it. He figures that it will take some time, but refuses to make any
estimates.
