Advisory Board

Geoff Anderson

President and CEO
Smart Growth America

Geoff is the President and CEO of Smart Growth America (SGA) and Co-Chair of the Transportation for America Campaign. He came to his current position in January 2008 after 13 years at the U.S. EPA where he headed the Smart Growth Program. During his tenure at EPA, he was instrumental in creating the Agency’s Smart Growth Program, creating the ten smart growth principles, and he helped to found the Smart Growth Network. In addition, he helped to catalyze the creation of the National Vacant Properties Campaign, the LEED for Neighborhood Development Certification program, and the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. 

He has co-authored numerous publications including: This Is Smart Growth, Getting to Smart Growth Volumes 1 and 2, Protecting Water Resources with Higher Density Development, The Transportation and Environmental Impacts of Infill vs. Greenfield Development, Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change and many others.  His work has also included direct technical assistance, helping with smart growth implementation in communities nationwide including Cheyenne, WY, Prince George’s County, MD, and the flagship smart growth project Atlantic Station in Atlanta GA.

Geoff received a Masters Degree from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment with a concentration in Resource Economics and Policy.

SGA is a coalition of national, state, and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national and state organizations advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space, community revitalization and more.

Scott Bernstein

President and Co-Founder
Center for Neighborhood Technology

Scott leads CNT’s work to understand and better disclose the economic value of resource use in urban communities, and helps craft strategies to capture the value of this efficiency productively and locally.

He studied at Northwestern University, served on the research staff of its Center for Urban Affairs, taught at UCLA and was a founding Board member at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Center.  President Clinton appointed Scott to the President’s Council for Sustainable Development, where he co-chaired its task forces on Metropolitan Sustainable Communities and on Cross-Cutting Climate Strategies and to other Federal advisory panels on global warming, development strategy, and science policy. He helped write a climate change strategy for the 1st 100 days of the new Administration. Scott is a Fellow of the Center for State Innovation, a Board Member of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and Congress for the New Urbanism, works with governors, mayors and metropolitan organizations across the U.S., and most recently helped create the Chicago Climate Action Plan at the request of Mayor Richard M. Daley. CNT is a signer of the Charter of the New Urbanism and Scott is a member of the Urban History Association, which includes urbanists old and new.

Some key ideas in this practice are that successful urban and metropolitan economies are “high-road,” that is, they provide higher wage, lower waste and most inclusive economic pathways; that they work best if founded on economies of scope or network economies as opposed to simple economies of scale, and that communities contain assets that too often are hidden, disconnected or poorly deployed; all of which are changeable conditions. A beneficial result of these ideas is a blurring of the lines between “consumers” and “producers” of public goods.

Donald Borut

Executive Director
National League of Cities

Donald J. Borut, executive director of the National League of Cities, manages the nation’s oldest and largest national organization representing municipal governments including 1600 direct member cities and over 18,000 cities, towns and villages through a network of state municipal organizations
 
Mr. Borut has more than 40 years’ experience in municipal government and organizational leadership in the public interest sector. Prior to his NLC appointment in 1990, he was Deputy Executive Director of the International City Management Association (ICMA), the nation’s preeminent organization representing professional administrators in local governments.
 
A graduate of Oberlin College, with a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Michigan, Mr. Borut began working in city government in 1964 as a staff assistant in the Office of the City Administrator in Ann Arbor, MI.
 
He has served on numerous advisory boards, editorial boards, and other committees in the public interest sector, including the Boards of the State and Local Legal Center, the National Academy of Public Administration, The Center for State and Local Government Excellence, the Association Mutual Health Insurance Company, and the steering committee of the State of the USA initiative. 
 
He currently holds the post of Secretary General of the North American Section of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), a global organization dedicated to strengthen the capacity and performance of local governments around the world.
 
Borut, who makes his home in Washington, DC, was born and grew up in New York City. He is married, with two children.  He is a member of the board and past president of the Levine School of Music, a community school and music center in Washington, a member of the board of The Washington Chorus and a member of the Council of the Collaborative Problem Solving Institute.

Dennis Creech

Executive Director
Southface Institute

Mr. Creech was a co-founder of the Southface Energy Institute, a private nonprofit organization providing education, technical assistance and research in energy, sustainable technologies, and applied building sciences. He has served as Executive Director for over 30 years.

Under his leadership Southface has grown to a staff of over 70 people offering programs on residential and commercial green buildings, sustainable development and energy policy. Annually Southface programs reach over 45,000 people and receive more than 200 million media impressions.  Southface program partners range from Fortune 100 companies to community-based affordable housing developers. Southface is an educational provider for the US Green Building Council, RESNET and Building Performance Institute and partnered with the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association on developing the EarthCraft House green building program.

Mr. Creech has served on the Board of Directors of RESNET, the Energy and Environmental Building Association, Affordable Comfort, the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association, the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance, the Southeast Watershed Forum, Georgia Watch and EarthShare Georgia. He has served on numerous policy bodies for federal and local government, the foundation community and industry, and is an alumnus of the Regional Leadership Institute and the Institute for Georgia Environmental Leadership.

Mr. Creech is a LEED Accredited Professional, has been an Adjunct Professor in Environmental Studies at Emory University and has received numerous professional awards including the Georgia Environmental Professional of the Year, a Legacy Award from the Energy and Environmental Building Association and designation as one of the “100 Most Influential Georgians” by Georgia Trend. In 2009, Mr. Creech was a finalist for the Hanley Award for Green Building.

Mr. Creech frequently writes and speaks on energy and environmental topics ranging from "green" building to sustainable business practices. He often serves as a media spokesperson and has been featured by sources ranging from CNN to the New York Times. 

Before founding Southface, Mr. Creech did research at the Georgia Tech Engineering Experiment Station and was Deputy Director of Atlanta 2000, a nonprofit regional planning organization. He has worked as a field ecologist conducting research on nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems. He works in a LEED Platinum certified office building, lives in an EarthCraft renovated 1950s ranch-style home and drives a hybrid vehicle.
 

Manuel (Manny) Diaz

Partner
Lydecker Diaz

A force in local, state and national politics for nearly three decades, Manny Diaz was first elected City of Miami Mayor in 2001, having never before held elective office. He was reelected to a second term in 2005, and was chosen to lead the United States Conference of Mayors as its president in 2008. Mayor Diaz developed a vision for Miami as an international City that embodies diversity, economic opportunity, effective customer service and a highly rated quality of life. To achieve this goal, he re-engineered Miami government from top to bottom.

During his two-term tenure, Diaz was recognized for completely transforming the City of Miami, and for many nationally recognized innovative programs in the areas of urban design, sustainability and green initiatives, education, infrastructure investment, affordable housing, law enforcement, poverty and homelessness, and arts and culture.

Diaz was recognized as one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report and The Center for Public Leadership (Kennedy School of Government); the Urban Innovator of the Year by the Manhattan Institute; Americans for the Arts-National Award for Local Arts Leadership; American Architectural Foundation Keystone Award; Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce Power Leader of the Year and Green Visionary Awards; the Government Award by Hispanic Magazine; the Business Leader of the Year Award by South Florida CEO Magazine; and was named an Outstanding American by Choice by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service.

He is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council of the US Department of Homeland Security and serves as Vice-Chairman of the Alliance for Digital Equality Board of Directors.  He also serves as the Chair for Fair Districts Florida and is a member of the Board of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research, the League of Conservation Voters, the National Environmental Education Foundation, the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, City Year Miami, the Florida After School Network, the advisory board for the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Civic Innovation, the Florida Advisory Committee for the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and the Florida Steering Committee for The Children’s Movement of Florida.

He recently served as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, and has now resumed his successful corporate and real estate law practice as a senior partner at Lydecker Diaz in Miami, Florida.

Doug Farr

President
Farr Associates

Doug Farr, AIA is the founding principal of Farr Associates, identified by the New York Times as “the most prominent of the city’s growing cadre of ecologically sensitive architects.”  Based in Chicago, the firm is widely regarded as one of the most sustainable planning and architecture practices in the country, holding the unique distinction of being the first firm in the world to design three LEED Platinum buildings. He was the founding chair of the USGBC’s LEED Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) rating system, and planning work at Farr Associates has helped certify three LEED-ND developments across Illinois.

Based on the firm’s pioneering sustainable design practice and his insights gained from chairing LEED-ND, Doug authored Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature in 2008. This planning best seller visualizes Sustainable Urbanism -- the growing sustainable design convergence that integrates walkable and transit-served urbanism with high-performance infrastructure and buildings -- as the normal pattern of development in the United States by 2030.

Rick Fedrizzi

President, CEO & Founding Chair
U.S. Green Building Council

Rick Fedrizzi, founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) in 1993, was appointed President & CEO of the rapidly growing organization in April 2004. Under his leadership, the Council has undertaken a far-reaching agenda that has tripled its membership, broadened its influence, and cemented its role as a leadership voice in the global sustainability movement. 

A cornerstone of that agenda has been the continuing evolution of the internationally recognized LEED Green Building Rating System. Every day more than 1 million square feet of space certifies to LEED, with some 9 billion square feet in the pipeline in 117 countries around the world. Celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2010, LEED began with a focus on new construction in commercial buildings, but today has grown to encompass the unique needs of homes, schools, hospitals, the retail sector and large property owners who want to implement and manage LEED across a broad portfolio of buildings and building types.  Special emphasis is being placed on LEED for Existing Buildings Operations and Maintenance, along with a focused effort for collection of performance data through the Building Performance Partnership in recognition of the huge need to bring existing buildings up to higher levels of ongoing performance and on LEED for Neighborhood Development, which moves LEED’s benefits beyond the building footprint into the neighborhood it occupies. 

Rick’s passion for collaboration as a driver for rapid change is evidenced in a series of far-reaching initiatives that have come to fruition under his tenure, including working with the Clinton Climate Initiative on the C40 Cities Program and the Climate Positive Development Program, the International Codes Council, AIA, ASHRAE, ASID, ASLA, BOMA and IFMA, among others, on numerous programs designed to accelerate the accomplishments of the green building movement and support the Council’s vision of a sustainable built environment within a generation.

USGBC’s international outreach has also been part of Rick’s vision. Working closely with the Minister of Construction in China, he’s assisted that country’s green building efforts and the establishment of its own green building council.  Other international agreements include the establishment this year of LEED Italia.   He helped establish the World Green Building Council in 1999, served as its chairman from 1999-2004, and remains an active member of its Board of Directors.

Prior to his appointment, Rick was the founder and president of Green-Think, an environmentally focused marketing and communications consulting firm. Rick founded Green-Think after a distinguished 25-year career at United Technologies Corporation (UTC), where he served as an in-house environmental marketing consultant. He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Indoor Environmental Quality (NYIEQ) Center and The Environmental Project™; the Board of Regents of the American Architectural Foundation; and as an advisory member to United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Economic Forum. He is an active alumnus of Lemoyne College (BS degree) and Syracuse University (MBA degree).  In 2008 he received the Environmental Stewardship Award from the Queens Botanical Garden. In 2009, Rick and USGBC were recognized as visionaries in sustainability by the National Building Museum, receiving the prestigious Honor Award. In 2010, Rick received the Charles H. Percy Award for Public Service from the Alliance to Save Energy, and USGBC was honored as a recipient of the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Corporate and Institutional Achievement.

James W. Hunt, III

Chief of Environmental and Energy Services
City of Boston

Jim Hunt serves on Mayor Thomas Menino’s Cabinet as Chief for Environmental and Energy Services for the City of Boston. In this capacity, Jim is the Mayor’s lead advisor on environmental and energy policy and oversees several City agencies including the Inspectional Services Department, the Environment Department, Parks Planning, and Boston’s Recycling Program. Jim also serves as a Mayoral Appointee to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) and as a Trustee on the Boston Groundwater Trust

The Menino Administration has implemented a number of sustainability initiatives under Jim Hunt’s leadership, particularly in the areas of climate action, green building policy, renewable energy and efficiency, and groundwater protection. In 2007, Boston became the first major city in the nation to require private development to follow the US Green Building Council’s LEED standards as part of the City’s zoning review process. And on Earth Day of 2010, the city unveiled a bold vision for reducing greenhouse gas emissions 25% by the year 2020, while reducing energy costs for homeowners and stimulating Boston’s clean energy economy. This commitment to sound environmental and energy practices has led to the City of Boston being ranked the “3rd Greenest City” in North America by Popular Science magazine.     

Prior to joining the City, Jim Hunt served as Assistant Secretary for the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Environmental Affairs (EOEA) and was responsible for administering the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA). As administrator of the Commonwealth’s MEPA program, Jim was in charge of major project reviews for the state including downtown waterfront development, MBTA transit projects, and a wide range of energy projects such as Cape Wind. Jim Hunt was recently appointed to the Commonwealth’s Climate Protection and Green Economy Advisory Committee, which will advise the Executive Office of Energy and Environment on statewide measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

An attorney, Jim received his Juris Doctorate from Suffolk University Law School and his Bachelors Degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Jim serves on several non-profit boards, including the Boston Latin School Association, the Boston Harbor Association, and the Dorchester Youth Academy, an alternative middle school serving the at-risk youth of Boston.

Ed McMahon

Senior Resident Fellow
Urban Land Institute

Ed McMahon holds the Charles E. Fraser Chair on Sustainable Development at the Urban Land Institute in Washington, DC where he is nationally known as an inspiring and thought provoking speaker and leading authority on topics related to sustainable development, land conservation, smart growth, and historic preservation.  As the Senior Fellow for Sustainable Development McMahon leads ULI’s worldwide efforts to conduct research and educational activities related to environmentally sensitive development policies and practices.

Before joining the Urban Land Institute in 2004, McMahon spent 14 years as the Vice President and Director of Land Use Planning for The Conservation Fund in Arlington, Virginia where he helped to protect more than 5 million acres of land of historic or natural significance. He is also the co-founder and former President of Scenic America, a national non-profit organization devoted to protecting America’s scenic landscapes. Before that, he taught law and public policy at Georgetown University Law Center for 9 years, and served in the U.S. Army, both at home and abroad.

McMahon is the author or co-author of 15 books and over 200 articles. His books include: Better Models for Development in Maryland, Developing Sustainable Planned Communities, Green Infrastructure: Connecting Landscape and Communities, Land Conservation Finance, and Balancing Nature and Commerce in Gateway Communities. McMahon also writes regularly for Urban Land Magazine, Planning Commissioners Journal and other periodicals. During the past 20 years McMahon has drafted numerous local land use plans and ordinances.  He has organized successful efforts to acquire and protect urban parkland, wilderness areas, and other conservation properties. McMahon serves on several advisory boards and commissions including: the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Maryland, The Governor’s Institute for Community Design and the Orton Family Foundation. McMahon has an M.A. in Urban Studies from the University of Alabama, Birmingham and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School. He and his wife live in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Steve Nicholas

Vice President of Climate & Environmental Programs
Institute for Sustainable Communities

Steve Nicholas is Vice President of Climate & Environmental Programs for the Institute for Sustainable Communities, where he designs, develops and oversees the implementation of programs that build the capacity of communities -- especially in the U.S. and China -- to increase energy efficiency, create green jobs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen resilience to the local impacts of global climate disruption. Current projects in Steve’s portfolio include the Climate Leadership Academy (an intensive training and peer learning program on local climate and energy solutions for US cities and towns) and the US-China Partnership on Climate Action (a suite of projects to increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in supply- chain factories and local communities in two Chinese provinces: Guangdong and Jiangsu).

Prior to joining ISC in October 2008, Steve was the director of the Seattle Office of Sustainability & Environment for eight years, leading numerous urban sustainability initiatives, including the development and implementation of the Seattle Climate Protection Initiative, winner of the 2007 Innovations in American Government Award. He co-authored Seattle’s first climate action plan, as well as the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which sparked a national movement of now more than 1,000 mayors taking local action on global warming and demanding stronger federal action. Steve also co-founded Sustainable Seattle in 1991, a nonprofit that promotes sustainable practices from the grassroots to the halls of government, in Seattle and throughout the Puget Sound region. Steve has held environmental policy and management positions at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and the King County (WA) Department of Natural Resources. From 1995 to 1998 Nicholas directed ISC's Democracy Network Program in Macedonia, focused on strengthening Macedonia’s fledgling democracy by building the capacity of environmental and other nonprofit organizations through technical and financial assistance.

Steve holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in Public Policy from Colby College.

Jonathan F. P. Rose

President and Founder
Jonathan Rose Companies, LLC

Jonathan F. P. Rose’s business, public policy and not-for-profit work all focus on creating a more environmentally, socially and economically responsible world. In 1989, Mr. Rose founded Jonathan Rose Companies LLC, a multi-disciplinary real estate development, planning, consulting and investment firm, as a leading green urban solutions provider. The firm currently manages over $1.5 billion of work, much of it in close collaboration with not-for-profits, towns and cities.

The company’s mission is to repair the fabric of communities. The firm draws on its human capital, financial depth and real estate expertise to create highly integrated solutions to real estate challenges.

A thought leader in the Smart Growth, national infrastructure, green building, and affordable housing movements, Mr. Rose is a frequent speaker and writer. His work has received widespread media attention from CNN to The New York Times and was recently profiled in e2, a PBS series on sustainable development. His many published works include the chapter, “Green Urbanism: Developing Restorative Urban Biophelia” featured in Biophilic Design, a book recently honored with a 2008 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence.

The firm’s innovative development, planning, investment, new construction, conversion and historic preservation work has won awards from a wide range of notable organizations including: the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Global Green USA, the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and the American Institute of Architects.

Mr. Rose is the chair of the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Blue Ribbon Sustainability Commission, which developed the nation’s first green transit plan.  He is a Trustee of several organizations including: the Urban Land Institute (where he co-chairs its Climate and Energy Committee); the Natural Resources Defense Council; and Enterprise Community Partners (with whose Green Communities program he is deeply engaged). He also serves on the leadership councils of the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the Yale School of Architecture, and chairs the Trust for Public Land’s National Real Estate Council.

Mr. Rose also serves on the Board of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the American Museum of Natural History, and is a co-founder of the Garrison Institute with his wife, Diana Rose.

Mr. Rose graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Psychology, and received a Masters in Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980.

Catherine L. Ross

Harry West Chair in Architecture & Director, GA Tech Center for Quality
Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. Catherine L. Ross has extensive experience in both the public and private sector. She is the first endowed faculty member in Georgia Tech's College of Architecture where she serves as Harry West Professor and directs the Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD). Dr. Ross has held several positions at Georgia Tech including that of Vice Provost. She was also the first Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA).

Dr. Ross served as Senior Policy Advisor on the Executive Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences, on the boards of the Eno Foundation and the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), and has held several other national leadership positions including President of the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP). Dr. Ross is an Urban Land Institute Fellow, a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Professor, and has recently been named a member of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).

Dr. Ross has been widely recognized for the quality of her work and was the recipient of the "Find the Good and Praise It Award" presented in 1998 by Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater for her work on the National Personal Transportation Survey Team. She was selected in July 2009 to advise the Obama Administration on the first ever White House Office of Urban Affairs.
An internationally known transportation and urban planner, Dr. Ross has conducted research and has project experience at the local, national, and international levels. In addition, she co-founded Euquant, Inc., an Atlanta-based economic and planning consulting firm. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Ford Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lincoln Institute of Land Policy-China, Federal Transit Administration, and many local, city, and state governments throughout the country. She has published extensively, including two books: The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century (January 1997) and the newly released Megaregions: Planning for Global Competitiveness (July 2009).

Dr. Ross attended Kent State University for her undergraduate degree, completed the Master's of Regional Planning Program and Doctoral Degree at Cornell University, and conducted post-doctoral work at the University of California- Berkeley.

John Robert Smith

President and CEO
Reconnecting America

John Robert Smith is the former Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, and a long-time leader on behalf of passenger rail. He is co-chairman of Transportation for America, a former Chairman of Amtrak’s board, and a former member of the transportation committees of the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, as well as former co-chairman of the National Forum on the Future of Passenger Rail. He is a veteran of the station-centered community development movement, and led the drive to renovate the City of Meridian’s Union Station, a $7 million historic restoration project that created a new multimodal transportation center, dramatically increased use of the station, raised property values and city tax receipts, and lowered crime in the station’s neighborhood. He served on Reconnecting America’s board for five years, and was a founding partner and board member of Reconnecting America’s predecessor organization, the Great American Station Foundation.

L. Benjamin (Ben) Starrett

Executive Director
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

Ben Starrett is the founding executive director of the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, created in late-1999 to inspire, strengthen, and expand philanthropic leadership and funders’ abilities to support organizations working to improve communities through better development decisions and growth policies. The Funders’ Network provides funders with learning and networking opportunities and supports funder leadership and action. For more information, please visit www.fundersnetwork.org.

Ben came to the Funders’ Network following a career in public service. After working for city government and the Florida Legislature, Ben joined the Florida Department of Community Affairs – Florida’s state land planning agency -- and served as its chief planning officer from 1989 to 1999.  During this time he created the Eastward Ho! Initiative and Florida’s Sustainable Communities Program, ran Florida’s Affordable Housing Study Commission, served as the state energy policy director, and staffed or chaired seven gubernatorial blue-ribbon panels on diverse topics such as urban growth patterns, economic development, hurricane preparedness and recovery, Everglades restoration, and coordination of land use and transportation. 

A magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a degree in politics and economics, Ben is a graduate of Leadership Florida Class XIX, was a Knight Fellow in Community Building, and serves on the board of the Sustainable Cities Institute.  Active in numerous national and local organizations, he lives in South Florida.

Kathleen L. Wolf

Professor, Projects Director
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources

Dr. Kathleen L. Wolf is a Research Social Scientist with the College of the Environment, University of Washington. She has a joint appointment with the US Forest Service PNW Research Station to help develop a program on Urban Natural Resources Stewardship. Kathy's studies are based on the principles of environmental psychology; the research is an effort to better understand the human dimensions of urban forestry and urban ecosystems. Kathy's professional mission is to discover, understand and communicate human behavior and benefits, as people experience nature in urban settings. Moreover, Kathy is interested in how scientific information can be integrated into local government policy and planning. She is a member of the Environmental Design Research Association, the International Society of Arboriculture, a technical contributor on human well-being to the Sustainable Sites Initiative, a member of the Transportation Research Board national committee on Landscape and Environment, and the Washington State Community Forestry Council. Dr Wolf has presented her research throughout the United States, in Canada, Europe, Australia and Japan. An overview of Dr. Wolf's research programs can be found at www.naturewithin.info; additional research findings on Green Cities: Good Health: www.greenhealth.washington.edu