ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY BOARD

The Green Alliance is guided by its Environmental Advisory Board and takes great pride in an impressive line-up of the Seacoast's most knowledgeable and aggressive environmental advocates and experts. The Board helps us place partnering businesses in one of our three categories for the Green Report Card and also provides guidance and support in moving our business forward environmentally. Our Advisory Board members do not endorse GA businesses but rather provide analysis and support for furthering sustainable business practices.

  Wood Turner - Director, Climate Counts (wturner@climatecounts.org, www.climatecounts.org)

Wood Turner is the project director of Climate Counts (www.climatecounts.org), a non-profit initiative spearheaded by Stonyfield Farm that scores companies annually on their commitment to addressing climate change in meaningful, measurable ways. Wood has a master's degree in urban and environmental planning and has worked on a range of public and private brand-building and community-based social marketing efforts, among them Flexcar, Intel, the Seattle Monorail Project, the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, and King County (WA) Metro. He was a consultant to the Seattle Mayor's Green Ribbon Commission on Climate Protection, an extension of the city's leadership on the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement.

   Cameron Wake - UNH Climatologist (cameron.wake@unh.edu, www.realclimate.org)

Cameron Wake studies regional climate and environmental change through the analysis of ice cores and instrumental records. Wake is involved in the AIRMAP project, which seeks to improve understanding of New England's changing climate and air quality. He leads the related INHALE project that is investigating the links between air quality and human health in New England. As part of the Northeast Climate Impact Assessment, he was co-lead on two research papers and a series of reports detailing past and future climate change in the US Northeast. Dr. Wake teaches at UNH and serves on the UNH Energy Task Force. He also serves as chief scientific advisor for Clean-Air-Cool Planet, a not-for-profit organization finding and promoting solutions to global warming.

  Julia Dundorf - NH Carbon Challenge (Julia@nhcc.unh.edu, www.nhcarbonchallenge.org)

Julia Dundorf is co-Founder and Co-Director of The NH Carbon ChallengeTM (NHCC), a University of New Hampshire (UNH) initiative committed to providing NH residents and communities with the information, tools and support necessary for NH households to reduce their residential carbon dioxide emissions by 10,000 pounds per year. A key objective of the NHCC is to develop a duplicable residential outreach model using research-based behavioral change tools that target the root causes of climate change inaction and utilize the networks and community organizations that can foster personal behavioral change. Two areas of focus for Dundorf are developing the Employee Carbon ChallengeTM, an initiative to work with residents on household emissions reduction through their workplaces and the Community Carbon ChallengeTM, the implementation of the Carbon Challenge model across various community groups.

  Deana Aulisio - Research Scientist (deana.auliso@unh.edu, www.unh.edu/erg)

Deana Aulisio has been working and studying at UNH's Environmental Research Group since 2001, and plans to begin her PhD research within the Natural Resources Earth System Science discipline in the fall of 2008. Always a strong advocate for the environment, she recently became interested more specifically in energy conservation and alternatives. Last year, she contacted Simply Green to purchase biodiesel for her Green VW Golf. After discussing her desire to focus her PhD research on biofuels, they decided to collaborate on finding more sustainable feedstock solutions, particularly by using algae grown in photobioreactors. Currently, they are seeking funding to begin this research together. For this summer, Deana has taken a temporary position at the NHDES Air Resources Division. She will assist the Energy Task Force in developing their Climate Change Action Plan for the Governor.

  Peter Britz - Environmental Planner, City of Portsmouth (plbritz@ch.cityofportsmouth.com, www.cityofportsmouth.com/sustainability/index.htm)

Peter Britz has served as the City of Portsmouth's Environmental Planner since 2000. Peter is a member of the Hodgson Brook Watershed Advisory Board, past Chairman for the New Hampshire Estuaries Project management committee, and serves as staff to the City's Conservation Commission. Peter has coordinated the City's membership in ICLEI and completed the first ICLEI milestone, the citywide carbon inventory. He has also worked to coordinate the City's membership in the Mayor's Climate protection agreement and assisted with the new designation of Portsmouth as an ecomunicipality. Peter has carried out many successful open space acquisition and wetlands protection projects. He also works to raise public awareness, at both the local and regional level, about the importance of natural resource protection measures and what individual property owners can do to improve and protect the natural environment.

  Michelle Veasey - Manager, N.H. Sustainable Lodging Program (mveasey@nhlra.com, www.nhslp.org)

Michelle Veasey is the Manager of New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association's Sustainable Lodging & Restaurant Program. She works with lodgings and restaurants across the state to improve energy efficiency, water conservation, and waste reduction and to encourage the promotion of environmentally sensitive initiatives to guests, potential guests and employees. She educates members on the latest sustainable business practices and promotes member businesses to potential customers. She also provides environmental consulting and writing to businesses outside of the hospitality sector. Prior to focusing on green business, Michelle worked for 20 years in the high technology industry designing and developing business analytical software. She holds a Masters in Environmental Education from the University of New Hampshire and a BSBA in Finance from the University of Denver.