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Alex Wilson is president of BuildingGreen, Inc. and serves as executive editor of Environmental Building News, a monthly newsletter on environmentally responsible building design and construction and coeditor of the GreenSpec product directory. He consults and lectures widely on sustainable design and serves as Secretary of the board of directors of the U.S. Green Building Council. Prior to starting his own company in 1985 (now BuildingGreen), he was executive director of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association for five years; before that he taught workshops on the construction of solar greenhouses in New Mexico in the late '70s. Alex has written about energy-efficient and environmentally responsible design and construction for more than 25 years and is author or coauthor of several books and manuals, including Greening Federal Facilities (U.S. Dept. of Energy), the Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (ACEEE, 8th edition,2003) and the Rocky Mountain Institute's comprehensive textbook Green Development: Integrating Ecology and Real Estate (John Wiley & Sons, 1998). He has also written hundreds of articles for other publications, including Fine Homebuilding, Architectural Record, The Construction Specifier, Landscape Architecture, and Popular Science. Alex is a Trustee of the Vermont Chapter of The Nature Conservancy.

Nadav Malin is vice president of BuildingGreen, Inc. and serves as editor of Environmental Building News, a monthly newsletter on environmentally responsible design and construction and coeditor of the GreenSpec product directory. He is chair of the Materials and Resources Technical Advisory Group for the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED™ Rating System, a LEED Trainer, and a LEED Accredited Professional. He was a principal author of the Applications Reports for the Environmental Resource Guide that compares the environmental value of different building materials in various applications, and he coauthored the chapter on building materials for Time Saver Standards.  He has written numerous article for publications including Architectural Record and  The Construction Specifier. Nadav consults and lectures widely on sustainable design, with a particular focus on green materials. In addition to running LEED training workshops, he has taught seminars for various USGBC chapters, CSI chapters, state AIA chapters, and private architecture firms. He also serves on the U.S. team for Green Building Challenge, manages the U.S. Department of Energy's High Performance Buildings Database project, and leads the content development team for Web and software resources at BuildingGreen.com.