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Eric Corey Freed
Principal & Founder, Organic Architect

Susan Szenasy
Editor In Chief, Metropolis Magazine

Glen Lindenstadt
Merchant Banker, Entrepreneur

Michael Schaeman
SVP of Agency Sales, Iconoculture

Shyam Kannan
Vice President of Research and Development, RCLCO

Lora O'Connor
Strategy & Alliances

We welcome inquiries from the media, and will do our best to put you in touch with the right green building expert to answer your questions or help you with anything else you need. Please call Max Mead at 415.839.9650.

If you're a blogger or other online media outlet, please feel free to use images and quote from this site with proper attribution, and if you have time to drop us a line and let us know, we'd love to see your post.

Press Kit Items:

• Building Green One Sheet (PDF)
  
• Staff Biographies

Images:

• Kevin's House Photo Gallery
• Press Photo Gallery

Press Releases:

• 08.28.2007 Burt's Bees, Global Green, the Sierra Club, and the Environmental Defense Center Sponsor Series Debut of PBS' Building Green (PDF)
• 07.17.2007 Building Green TV and RCLCO (Robert Charles Lesser & Co.) Reveal that Health is the Most Powerful Motivator for Consumers to Build or Buy a Green Home (PDF)
• 05.15.2007 PBS to Air New Weekly Television Series Dedicated to “Building Green" (PDF)

Kevin Contreras
Host & Executive Producer

Max Mead
Co-Executive Producer

Tippy Bushkin
Season One Producer/Director

Kathleen McGlychok
Sales & Sponsorships

Stephanie Kinnear
Web Editor

Victoria Everman
Web Editor

Atmadev Cornelius
Office Manager

Nathan Jackson
Senior Developer

Building Green is a labor of passion. Producer and host Kevin Contreras is as fiercely committed to building awareness as he is to building houses, which is why he and other like-minded individuals are now developing media to do just that.

Building Green TV's mission is to provide homeowners with a glimpse of just how easy, cost-effective and healthy it is to go green, while dispelling the myth that an environmentally conscious lifestyle means doing without.

Through our nationally-aired TV series, Kevin takes viewers on a highly personal journey, showing them exactly what it’s like for an “ordinary guy” to make the commitment to go green.

On our website, buildinggreentv.com, we provide detailed how-to information and connect readers with resources. As fans of the social network, we also offer readers a place to share their own stories and tips, and to interact directly with Kevin himself and an ever-growing roster of self-taught green building mavens and experts alike.

Filming Green

Filming a television show is a process with a lot of moving parts, but we make every effort to film green. Here are a few of the ways we incorporate the "reduce, reuse, recycle" ethic into our workdays:

• Many employees are located in home offices all over the country
• Production vehicle runs on straight veggie oil
• Recycling bins are everywhere
• The production office is lit by natural light with solar electric and heating
• Rechargeable batteries are used for all equipment
• Lunches are made communal style, to eliminate trash from brought in food
• When traveling, the crew carries lunch pails, utensils and stainless liquid containers to avoid paper or plastic products
• Recycled and compostable paper products and biobags are used when necessary
• We consolidated travel involving sales, shooting for season one, and other seasons every trip
• We hire local crews to eliminate transportation.