Build Baby Build is more than just a blog about renewable energy.  It is a platform for community leaders, organizers and supporters of community-based projects.  Here at Build Baby Build, you’ll read about the benefits of renewable energy and learn how to dispel the myths often used by project opponents to delay projects.   You can start your own community Forum to use for coordinating efforts in your community, post information and rally supporters.   Through grass roots efforts of people like you, we’ll Build Baby Build towards a cleaner, more stable future.

About the Writing Staff:

The Build Baby Build editors include an experienced land use attorney, a social media expert, and a career entrepreneur.

Ken Smith, Publisher & Editor

Ken Smith, Publisher & Blogger Ken Smith is a career entrepreneur having held senior management positions in seven high tech and clean tech startups.  His work spans Internet strategy consulting, digital telephony, software as a service, as well as smart grid.  He is also an inventor having recently filed a patent for an innovative foundation design for installing solar panels on landfills.

Ken has been an active environmentalist since childhood participating in numerous conservation projects, wilderness trail maintenance, and as a board member and officer of several environmental non-profits.  Through his father who was President of the Mt. Washington Observatory in the White Mountains of New Hampshire he was involved in a Washington & Presidentials mapping project led by internationally known cartographer, mountaineer H. Bradford Washburn.  Ken is currently serving his fourth term on the board of the Chocorua Lake Association.

Ken is also the Founder and CEO of Smith Energy, LLC  the publisher of Build Baby Build.

Contributing Bloggers & Community Support Staff

Build Baby Build contributing bloggers are experienced bloggers who write for various blogs covering renewable energy, environmental, political, and social issues. If you are interested in becoming a contributing blogger please email us at contact..at..buildbabybuild…dot…net.

Stephanie Hicks, Senior Contributing Blogger
Stephanie has been representing utilities and other developers for nearly 15 years in Washington State and Oregon. She has worked with and against community groups opposing developments such as transmission lines, cell towers and airport expansions.  Stephanie brings her land use and environmental law experience to Build, Baby Build, offering an insider’s perspective of the hearing and approval process for development.Stephanie is an avid environmental blogger, writing and editing the following blogs: www.peachygreen.com, www.solarpanelspower.net and www.solarpowerpanels.ws.

Gina Caruso, National Events Manager
Gina has extensive experience in events management, marketing and ideation. Most recently, she has brought her fresh thinking and industry knowledge as a consultant to local startups such as nTAG Interactive and BzzAgent. Her role as Vice President and Director of Events for The Advertising Club of Boston for six years made her a well-known personality in the Boston Ad Community. Her ability to negotiate sponsorships, build partnerships with member companies, and engage national recognized marketing executives as speakers contributed to the revival of a 100 year old trade association. Gina got her start in events marketing while working at The Head of The Charles Regatta and then the Boston Marathon where she worked on the historic 100th Running. She currently teaches Advertising at her alma mater, Boston College. Linked In Profile http://www.linkedin.com/in/carusogina

Dylan Harrison-Atlas, Event Coordinator
Dylan is a graduated from Colby College in 2007 with a degree in Environmental Studies and a concentration in Conservation Biology. He has worked as a Research Assistant with ICF International and is now volunteering at a regional land-trust (Sudbury Valley Trustees) where he perform various GIS analyses and other conservation projects.

Greenpeace, Contributing Blogger
Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses peaceful direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

Tom Harrison, Contributing Blogger
Founder of several Internet startups in charge of software engineering. By night: consulting on software, data, and web development for green companies, and writing for Five Percent, and WattzOn blogs.

Mike Johnston, Contributing Blogger
Mike is contributing blogger to the The PickensPlan, and the CNN iReport

James Moreau, Contributing Blogger
James Ryan Moreau is a Worcester, Massachusetts native and owns a small copywriting consulting business called JRM Gets Creative. James also works for a small media analysis software company and is an avid sustainable market researcher and innovative technology enthusiast. He also blogs for JRM Gets Creative! and JR’s Not So Literal Logging

Bill Mollring, Contributing Blogger
Bill is an entrepreneur who has owned numerous businesses ranging from supermarkets, restaurants, Packing and shipping outlets, as wll as and director of sales for destination management companies. Over the past five years Bill has been very active in alternative energy and working with sustainable energy and the growing of food crops projects in Maui, Hawaii and California. Bill represents the Marah Power Windspire and the Franklin Wind System VBine, through WSM marketing Group.

Trucker Desiree, National Greenspotting Expert
Located everywhere in the USA, and on twitter @truckerdesiree

Eric Wu, Online Community Facilitator, Contributing Blogger
Eric is a resident of New Jersey who holds a BS in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has previously worked with an industrial parts supplier conducting research in renewable energy with a focus on wind turbines. Eric is a big proponent of the sustainability movement and has been actively working on various efficiency and waste reduction measures.

Greenspotters

Greenspotters are people from around the country who go out into thier communities with their friends and their cell phones and take images of windmills, solar arrays, innovative recycling, environmental conservation activities — virtually any activity or installation that reduces pollution and promoted local energy productions. If you are interested in becoming a greenspotter please email us at contact..at..buildbabybuild…dot…net.