John Steinbach, consultant, speaker, writer, and trainer, is Co-founder of Grassroots Green, LLC, and publisher of this organization’s Green Living Guide for Northeast Indiana. He presents numerous workshops and consults with other organizations on how to incorporate sustainable practices.

Dr. Andrew T. Hsu, Director, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Purdue School of Engineering and Technology, IUPUI, is also an Indiana University PCL Fellow and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986 with a specialization in computational fluid dynamics. He is a member of AIAA and ASME and an advisor to the Richard G. Lugar Center for Renewable Energy. His expertise is in renewable fuel cells and reformers and renewable hydrogen.

While Candace Imbody was confined in bed after surgery, she had plenty of time to browse the Web and think. Her ruminations led her to create Construction Recycling Solutions, which now recycles about 72 percent of the residential construction waste in Allen County, keeping more than 18,000 tons of construction waste from landfills.

Matt Jones is a Water Resource Education Specialist with the Allen County Partnership for Water Quality. One of his primary responsibilities is to teach non-agricultural stakeholders how to sustain clean water. Matt acted as consultant and co-writer on the "Green Sells" technical video and the nationally acclaimed "A Watershed Mentality" documentary, both produced by PBS39 Fort Wayne.

Jack Schenendorf, Vice Chair, National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study, is an attorney with Covington and Burling LLC in Washington, D.C. His practice concentrates on transportation and legislation, with a particular focus on legislative strategy, legislative procedure, and the federal budget process. For nearly 25 years, Mr. Schenendorf served on the staff of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the U.S. House of Representatives.

With prolific plots in their backyards and in the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department’s Community Gardens, Diane Dickson and Angie Quinn are successful organic gardeners who produce enough food for themselves and more to share. They know how to increase soil fertility using sustainable methods and use block planting and raised beds to get the most out of a very small space. Their passion for locally grown foods will inspire your efforts. Diane Dickson is a musician with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. She learned about professional market gardening techniques at Lone Swan Farm, a certified organic vegetable and flower farm. She received training in organic farm inspection from the Independent Organic Inspector's Association (IOIA) and has inspected farms for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA). Angie Quinn is the Executive Director of ARCH, the local historic preservation organization. She is a former naturalist and trail guide and completed the Master Gardener program in Monroe County. She is a member of the Allen County Ag. Producers Association, which operates the South Side Farmers Market, where she shares a stand each week with another home gardener. Angie grows and saves heirloom vegetable seeds and is a member of Seed Savers Exchange and Slow Food USA.

U.S. Green Building Council, co-host of the Need To Go Green conference, is represented by Mac Williams, LEED-AP, USGBC Indiana Chapter Chairman, of Inverde Design (Indianapolis), and Terry Thornsbury, R.A., LEED-AP, USGBC Fort Wayne Branch Chairman, of Viridian Architectural Design (Fort Wayne). These LEED Accredited Professional / Architects integrate the philosophies of the LEED Green Building Rating System into each and every building they design—by being more environmentally responsible, more energy efficient, and more conscientious about creating healthier places to work and live. This, after all, is the mission of the USGBC, which is now being carried out in Fort Wayne with the initiation of the local USGBC Indiana Chapter Fort Wayne Branch.

Jesse Kharbanda comes to the Hoosier Environmental Council from the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago. At ELPC he helped build support among agricultural, clean-energy, and economic-development organizations throughout the Midwest to support provisions in the Federal Energy and Federal Farm Bills. He helped craft rural-focused clean-energy legislation and wrote briefs on a variety of environmental policy issues. Kharbanda has a graduate degree in development economics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and undergraduate degrees in economics and environmental studies from the University of Chicago.

Bowden Quinn is Conservation Program Coordinator for the Hoosier Chapter of the Sierra Club. He is the Indiana coordinator for the Club’s Cool Cities and Cool Counties programs, which mobilize people to work with their local governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from government operations and to lower their community’s carbon footprint. He also works on water-quality issues and is a former member of the Indiana Water Pollution Control Board.

Jane A. Grant, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at IPFW, where she teaches environmental policy and democracy. She has just completed a book on the role of civic ethics in American democracy, exploring the obligations that citizens have to each other, future generations, other nations, and other species.