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Alanna Martin is a principal of Green Properties New York, a commercial real estate brokerage dedicated to helping clients create and lease sustainable spaces.  She is a graduate of Columbia University and Brooklyn Law School.  Alanna is a LEED AP.

Nick Goldsmith grew up in Ithaca, NY before graduating in mathematics from Brown University. He continued on to graduate school in Montreal – at Ecole Nationale de Cirque – where he received a degree in circus arts. For the last eight years Nick has been the sole proprietor of an entertainment business, performing worldwide as…

Jill Lanier has always had an interest in the environment, sustainability as well as the effective, efficient use of resources and materials.  Recent domestic and global developments in both economic and environmental arenas have only further fueled this interest.  Jill holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) as well as graduate…

Having grown up in a progressive home, where meals often included home-grown vegetables and discussions on sustainable living, Danial Rushton has always been interested in environmental issues.  However, after college he fell into work in the online advertising sector.  As he continued in this field it became increasingly apparent that he needed to do something…

Jordan Bonomo became interested in environmental issues during his senior year at Boston University when he worked on a climate change campaign for MASSPIRG. After a year working with a New York-based nonprofit managing environmental cleanup projects in third world communities, he was bit by the travel bug and left the states to live and…

Mohini Tadikonda has recently completed a Permaculture Design Certification course.  Her goal is to be an active participant in making NYC a more sustainable city through retrofitting the current infrastructure.  She believes that the first step is making information accessible and understandable to the public which is where organizations like GreenHomeNYC become so important.

Mary Tchamkina has recently decided that selling art to rich people is not how she’d rather spend the hours between 9 am and 5 pm.  She is now volunteering with GreenHomeNYC and interning at Solar1 to learn everything she can about green building in hopes that, one day, she can have a 9-to-5 educating and…