Durning coauthored the 2006 edition of the Cascadia Scorecard: Seven Key Trends Shaping the Northwest, with a special report on the connections between sprawl and urban design. The Cascadia Scorecard is a gauge of progress that monitors seven trends—health, economy, population, energy, sprawl, wildlife, and pollution—that are shaping the region's future more profoundly than the fleeting events that so often make headline news. He lectures widely and lives with his wife and children in Seattle.

Steve Badanes attended Wesleyan University for undergraduate studies and Princeton University where he received a Master's degree in architecture. He has received several grants and fellowships, and has conducted design/build workshops at over 100 universities in the U.S, Canada, Mexico and Europe. He received an AIA Education Honor Award in 1997, a ACSA Distinguished Professor Award in 2002, and a Passive Solar Pioneer Award from the American Solar Energy Association in 2005.

As a practicing architect, his commissions have included private homes, schools, public structures, and the winning entry, "The Fremont Troll" in the Hall of Giants 1990 Competition in Seattle, Washington. Badanes is a founder of Jersey Devil, an architectural firm perpetuating the tradition of medieval craftsman. The firm is comprised of skilled craftsman, architects, inventors, and artists "committed to the interdependence of building and design." Jersey Devil architects/builders live on-site during construction of their designs, which are known for energy efficiency and innovative use of materials. Their work has been the subject of two books: The Jersey Devil Design/Build Book (1985) and Devils Workshop: 25 years of Jersey Devil Architecture (1997).

Hunter Lovins is a world-renowned speaker on the environment and how to protect it profitably. Named Time Magazine's 2000 Hero of the Planet, she has a long background in environmental education. Active in environmental education since 1973, she has lectured at universities, elementary and high schools, and to corporations around the world. She is a founding professor of Sustainable Management at Presidio School of Management, the first accredited MBA in which sustainability is woven throughout every part of the curriculum.

Sahar is project manager at CTG Energetics, working as a sustainability consultant on green building projects. She earned a Master of Architecture from the University of Tehran and a Master of Science in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked as a graduate student researcher at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at Berkeley, where she worked on developing and implementing the CBE occupant survey in a large number of office buildings and on quantitative analysis of the survey results.

Michael Basch was a founding officer of FedEx, where he spent 10 years as a Senior Vice President starting seven months prior to beginning operations. He was part of an explosively creative management team that took the company from $0 to $1 billion in revenues – the first company in US history to accomplish this growth in ten years. The company was selected by Fortune Magazine as one of the ten best managed companies of the decade of the 1970s. Basch led the teams that set-up their service operations, invented the bar code tracing system, built the Memphis SuperHub and founded the FedEx Logistics Division.

Prior to FedEx, Basch spent 8 years at UPS in various capacities. He has been involved in numerous start-ups since leaving FedEx in 1982 and has consulted with Harley-Davidson, Lincoln National Insurance and many other companies.

Mike’s book CustomerCulture, How FedEx And Other Great Companies Put The Customer First Every Day was published in 2002. The book provides practical ways to move a company from internal focus to customer focus.

While at FedEx in Memphis, TN, Mike led a community job creation effort to achieve grass-roots support for promoting Memphis as “America’s Distribution Center.” This effort led to tens of thousands of jobs and was written up in Fortune Magazine and the National Business Journal as an example of what communities can achieve when people work together. This project showed the power of common people working together to accomplish uncommon goals with no motivation other than their passion to make a difference.

Mike’s current business adventure is Nature’s Lighting where he is a founder and the CEO of the company – the leader in bringing free, healthy and environmentally friendly sunlight into commercial buildings. He comments: “The Daylighting Revolution is here. It no longer makes any sense to build a single story commercial building without daylighting.”

Steve Bilson established ReWater Systems, Inc. in 1990. ReWater manufactures, sells and installs legal greywater irrigation systems. Mr. Bilson holds US Patent #5,217,323 on ReWater’s systems, and is Responsible Managing Employee for ReWater’s state landscape contractor’s license #798547. In 1992,

Mr. Bilson sponsored California Assembly Bill 3518 legalizing single family dwelling greywater systems, and in 1995, he sponsored Assembly Bill 313 for commercial/industrial systems. He worked closely with the California department of Health Services and the Department of Water Resources and numerous state and local agencies in writing the state greywater irrigation code, now found as Appendix G of the California Plumbing Code. ReWater’s greywater irrigation systems have been sold extensively in California and throughout the United States, and have been determined to be cost effective enough to pay for themselves through, and thus qualify for, US EPA State Revolving Funds. ReWater’s systems can earn two LEED points.

John Boecker is an architect with 7 Group. 7 Group is a green high performance building consultant group. As the VP of green high performance design for L. Robert Kimball Associates, John was instrumental in designing Pennsylvania’s firs gold LEED building.

Beth Brummitt is the principal of Brummitt Energy Associates, Inc, a consulting firm located in San Diego, California, specializing in energy modeling for high performance buildings. A Certified Energy Analyst, a Certified Energy Manager, a USGBC-LEED Accredited Professional since 2002, and with twenty years of experience in energy efficiency and building modeling, Brummitt has been speaking, training, and writing articles for a variety of groups on energy efficiency, the Title 24 energy code, and green buildings for many years. She has assisted more than three dozen teams in their pursuit and achievement of LEED buildings, from Certified through Platinum.

Brummitt has served as Chair of several organizations, including the California Association of Building Energy Consultants (CABEC), the San Diego Chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), was the founding Chair of the San Diego Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and is a graduate of LEAD San Diego.

Mike Evans was born and raised in southern California and demonstrated an early love for the outdoors. He worked with several nurseries both retail and wholesale, before establishing Tree of Life Nursery in 1976. The nursery specializes in native California plants. Tree of Life Nursery promotes a style of authentic horticulture, specifically the concept of appropriate landscaping with native California plants.

Mike is affiliated with numerous conservation, horticultural and botanical organizations. He is past president (2005) of the International Plant Propagators Society, and past president (2001) of the California Society for Ecological Restoration. With his experience in native plant production, design, landscaping, and ecological restoration, Mike Evans is an advocate for a California that deserves to look like the true “California.”

TREE OF LIFE NURSERY: Tree of Life Nursery was established in 1976 and is now the largest native plant supplier in California. The 40-acre nursery produces a high quality line of California natives on the historic Rancho Mission Viejo in San Juan Capistrano. More than 500 species and varieties of native plants are grown in various container sizes. Tree of Life provides plants for landscaping and ecological restoration at the wholesale level. In addition, natives are made available to the general public through Casa ‘La Paz’ where plants and books are on display for retail sales. The nursery website, www.CaliforniaNativePlants.com provides information on the use of native plants in the garden. The Tree of Life Nursery catalog, entitled “Plants of El Camino Real,” is used as a planning tool for horticultural professionals and garden enthusiasts working with native plants.

Terry Foster, the facilitator for the DVD presentation, is the Western Regional Sales Manager for the Homasote Company. Homasote is the oldest manufacturer of recycled building materials in the United States.

Kathleen Garcia, a registered Landscape Architect and Fellow in the American Society of Landscape Architects, practices ecologically sensitive planning, landscape architecture, and urban design throughout the country. She is a Principal in the nationally recognized firm of Wallace Roberts & Todd LLC, where she is the director of the San Diego office.

Ms. Garcia holds a mayoral appointment in San Diego as a Planning Commissioner, the first landscape architect to have served in that capacity. Ms. Garcia was the former chair of the Citizens Committee on Urban Form & Environment for the Strategic Plan 2020 (City of Villages) and has continued with its direction as a Planning Commissioner. In addition to her citywide appointment, Ms. Garcia also serves on the Board of Directors for the Southeastern Economic Development Corporation (SEDC).

A native Californian, Ms. Garcia is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Carolina Gregor is an urban planner at SANDAG. She earned her Bachelors Degree in Sociology from UCLA and her Masters Degree in City Planning from San Diego State University (SDSU). She has worked at SANDAG for almost 12 years. One of her top projects has included managing the preparation of the Regional Comprehensive Plan (RCP), a regional planning blueprint for the San Diego region for the next three decades. The SANDAG Board of Directors unanimously adopted the RCP in 2004.

Carolina currently serves as the project manager of RCP Implementation, and most recently coordinated the production of the “Smart Growth Concept Map,” a map that shows 200 areas in the San Diego region that currently contain or have the potential for smart growth development. Carolina also staffs two working groups at SANDAG, one consisting of the local planning directors in the region, and the other of stakeholders from throughout San Diego appointed by the SANDAG Board. In addition, Carolina is working on the development of subregional plans and programs, web-based urban planning tools, and other related smart growth projects.

Scot Horst, president of Horst, Inc., serves as president of 7 Group and is a materials specialist. He also runs the U. S. Office of Athena Sustainable Materials Institute. This organization is leading the effort to develop Life Cycle Assessment measures for materials and buildings.

Mr. Joyce has over 20 years experience in sales, marketing and public relations with Rollerblade, ESPN, Disney Sports Attractions and the US Olympic Committee. His background has encompassed corporate communications, brand management, and collateral development within startups and high-growth environments.

He became a principal in Rubbersidewalks in 2003 and is responsible for expanded the product line and expanded the attention of the product nationally. Currently the product is installed in over 60 cities in 10 states within North America. Mr. Joyce has spoken at booth regional and national conference for American Public Works Association and Canadian Public Works Association and the New York Conference of Mayors.

Greg Kaiser has 17 years of experience as a licensed landscape architect for a range of project types including residential, commercial, golf course, resort, and university master plans throughout the U.S. and in Asia. Mr. Kaiser has developed an expertise in resourcefully efficient landscape design of large-scale master planned communities and native habitat restoration projects. He has provided native landscape creation, landscape restoration, and construction management services with such projects as Santaluz, a nationally recognized environmentally sensitive development in San Diego.

Stephen Kapp is the Technology Resources Manager at SDREO and serves as the organization-wide technical expert and liaison in matters relating to energy management, conservation, energy efficiency design and green building design. He provides technical support and design assistance in the development and implementation of regional energy programs, including energy efficiency projects and self-generation projects. He previously ran SDREO's San Diego Energy Resource Center Program and Green Building Program.

With over 19 years experience in the energy and technologies industry, Steve has performed over 100 energy audits and over 200 energy design reviews, building energy simulations, analyses and feasibility studies. He also invented and brought to market a building products database program entitled FenSpec(tm). A regular contributor to SDREO's Energy Connection e-newsletter, he was editor and publisher of a national award-winning energy newsletter, managing editor of a statewide energy association newsletter and was published in "Architectural Specifier" magazine. He has also been a technical reviewer of California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards and Nonresidential Manuals. Steve has conducted dozens of seminars and workshops on energy topics, building systems, sustainable development and software applications. He also serves on various committees as well as the USGBC-San Diego Chapter board.

Steve received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Studies at San Jose State University where he completed

Steve Kellenberg has 25 years of experience in planning large scale Master Planned Communities, town centers and urban infill. His education and experience have provided a strong integration of land use planning, urban design, economics, market analysis and public participation. Steve’s focus has been on elevating the level of urban design and “community character” in large. High-velocity, primary market-based communities. Over the last decade he has expanded his practice into urban reuse and conservation development work.

Steve is also the leader of EDAW’s Green Communities Initiative and has been involved in new community and redevelopment projects in Southern California, Nevada and Utah that are implementing green building practices at various levels.

Mr. Kellenberg graduated with distinction from Harvard University with a Masters in Urban Design, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate Masters in Real Estate Program and is in the Leadership Group of the Urban Land Institute. He also co-authored the ULI book Great Planned Communities.

Director-Community Development, Rancho Mission Viejo (RMV) since 1999. RMV, partnering with DM8 from Scottsdale, AZ, formed DM8 Ladera as the master developer of Ladera Ranch. Ladera Ranch is located in South Orange County, California and was developed out of a part of Rancho Mission Viejo. Now nearly built out, Ladera consists of 8,100 homes and includes retail centers, office/medical space, a fire station and 4 schools.

Beyond Ladera, RMV has obtained the initial entitlement approval from the County of Orange for the “Ranch Plan” which provides for the development of 14,000 homes and 5,000,000 square feet of commercial space on approximately 6,000 of the remaining 23,000 acres of the Ranch. The remainder of the Ranch would remain as open space. The Ranch Plan development will occur in five primary planning areas and will be phased over the next 20 to 25 years. Grading efforts for the first planning area will began in early 2007.

The Ranch Plan will build on, and continue key sustainable elements which were initiated in Ladera Ranch. These include sustainable building components and design, photovoltaic elements, water conservation efforts, storm water quality management, construction waste recycling and we will attempt to maximize the use of NEV/LSV’s within the community.

My primary responsibility is the management of the merchant builders within Ladera and the Ranch Plan. This includes the design development of builder product to comply with master developer guidelines. Responsibilities also include the design and construction of primary common area amenities such as village clubs, parks and pools. I provide oversight for the design and construction of other vertical elements such as office, retail and apartment components.

Prior to joining RMV, I worked at Pacific Bay Homes as a project manager on a number of projects which included One Ford Road in Newport Beach.

Prior to Pacific Bay Homes I worked as a real estate lender for various Banks and a Life Company (First Interstate, Wells Fargo, and Travelers)

I came to California in 1985 from my home State of Texas where I obtained a BBA in Real Estate & Urban Land Development from the University of Texas, Austin in 1980.

Professor Paul Linden is the Blasker Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering and Chair of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and was on the faculty there until he joined UCSD in 1998.He is a fluid dynamicist who works on environmental flows, most recently applied to the design of low-energy ventilation systems for buildings.

Mark Loukides is the head of Site Operations for Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development. He has been with J&JPRD for seven years and has twenty years of facilities management experience in the medical device, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

Mark is a Mechanical Engineer with an MBA in Finance, and currently serves on the Board of the US
Green Building Council’s San Diego Chapter.

Mark was instrumental in leading the design and construction of their state-of-the-art LEED certified 185,000 sq. ft. research facility in La Jolla. Along with other Johnson & Johnson companies in California, the facility received the California Governor's Award for Sustainable Facilities. In addition, the site was recognized as having the best overall energy performance at a single site compared to all Johnson & Johnson facilities worldwide.

Jan McAdams hails from UC Davis where 30 years ago she launched her fundraising career. She has experience in all aspects of grantwriting, funding cultivation and project management. Since 1974 her firm, The McAdams Group has served more than 200 nonprofit and 28 for-profit clients. She has secured more than $77 million in cash and non-cash resources through grants and sponsor development. During her fundraising and grantwriting career, Jan has conducted more than 650 grantwriting and business development workshops throughout the U.S to more than 4,800 aspiring grant writers (Sponsored by major universities including the University of Nevada, Reno, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of California, Davis).

In 1996 Jan was recruited by the Department of Energy to participate as a resource for the nation’s emerging green building projects. Since 2001, Jan and the members of The McAdams Group have conducted forty (40) “Funding Green Buildings” workshops and in-service trainings to more than 700 attendees.

She is the Publisher/Editor, “The Funding Green Buildings Toolkit” (2001-2006 Editions), a 150-page directory listing all major grants, construction material donations and low interest loan resources for energy-efficient commercial and public buildings. (The most comprehensive resource of this type for green buildings.) Last month she completed a series of 5 “Funding Green Buildings” online seminars that have been added to the Funding Green Buildings Toolkit available for purchase at the www.fundinggreenbuildings.com website.

Jan has conducted capital campaigns for more than 15 green building projects, securing $40 M in the last 5 years. She maintains professional relationships with major Federal and State funding sources including: Department of Energy, HUD, EPA & Health and Human Services. Jan is known for putting the F-U-N back into fundraising.

The McAdams Group is committed to increasing the visibility of the nation’s green buildings as an invaluable education tool. This commitment is reflected in the company’s development of the “Map of the Nation’s Gold and Platinum LEED-Certified Buildings” and the “2006 Green Building Wall Calendar.”

Educational Background:

• MLA (Post-Professional Masters of Landscape Architecture) University of Massachusetts-Amherst, MA. 1997 – Graduated top 1% of class
• BSLA (Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture) 1995 – Graduate in top 2% - Magna cum Laude

Michael’s professional experience:

1.Currently Senior Associate at Carlile.Macy a large interdisciplinary firm (landscape architecture, urban design/planning, civil engineer, land surveying)

- Innovated a series of Best Management Practices for Storm water management for the local Standard Urban Storm Water Mitigation Plan - Have developed ‘representative compliance designs’ for the State Regional Water Quality Board – Region 1. Michael has also done the same for Sonoma County – Permit and Resource Management Department.

2. University teaching in landscape architecture at University of Massachusetts –

a. Graduate Landscape Architecture program teaching spatial design formation and technical construction procedures
b. California Polytechnic State University in two departments: Landscape Architecture, City & Regional Planning teaching a wide range of subjects from graphic display, spatial planning, computer technology, sustainable design c. Texas State University – teaching graphic display techniques and technology. 1996-2002. Michael was one of the early pioneers in ‘sustainable design’ and was an originator of how to implement this process in landscape architecture.

3. Along with university teaching Michael was president of Ecological Design and Planning, Inc. a corporation dedicated to developing sustainable design techniques for a wide range of projects from thousand acre housing/recreation to urban office parks (19 years experience in land design)

4. Articles and Books written:

a. The future of Landscape Architecture – Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture
b. Ecological Design Criteria for Housing with a foreword by Ian McHarg (final publication –tbd)

5. Worked on large scale statewide greenway planning for Massachusetts with Dr. Julius Fabos and also helped co-author a local planning code for ‘conservation subdivision design’ for the Austin Texas Region.

6. Was an expert consultant for the Barton Springs Watershed Protection criteria manual that is patterning growth in the area for the next 10 years. This is one of the most comprehensive and extensive multi-stakeholder watershed protection studies ever undertaken.

J. William Naish relocated to San Diego in 1986 from the Midwest and joined the district in 1992. Before becoming the Energy/Utility Coordinator, he was an Office of the State Architect licensed school building inspector with the district.

Prior to working for the district, J. William, held the position of Vice President of Operations for a local construction material testing, geotechnical, and engineering firm. He was responsible for the day-to-day activities of 150 employees in 3 offices in southern California. Before accepting that position, he was a City of San Diego, County of Orange, International Conference of Building Officials, and American Concrete Institute, licensed building inspector for structural elements comprised of pre-stressed and typical concrete, masonry, structural steel, and soils. J. William was also licensed to inspect hospital construction in California.

J. William Naish is currently licensed as a Certified Energy Procurement Professional (CEP). During his tenure as the district’s Energy/Utility Coordinator, he was the 2000 president of the local chapter of the Association of Energy Engineers. In 1997, the Association of Energy Engineers and the Association of Professional Energy Managers recognized J. William as the San Diego Energy Manager of the Year.

Linda Giannelli Pratt is the Chief of the Office of Environmental Protection and Sustainability with the City of San Diego Environmental Services Department. For more than 25 years, she has successfully built a professional career focused on community-based environmental protection. Her experience is broad, and includes positions as a laboratory analyst, regulatory compliance specialist, consultant, adjunct professor at the University of California at San Diego, and director of regional environmental programs. Her reports have been published in three books and many professional journals. Linda received a Bachelors of Science degree in Microbiology and Chemistry and a Masters of Science degree in Environmental Studies.

Dr. David Rohy specializes in the development of distributed generation technologies. He led research and development activities at Solar Turbines, here in San Diego, where he was employed for over 25 years.

In 1995 he was appointed to the California Energy Commission by Governor Pete Wilson. From 1997 to 2000 he served as Vice Chair of that organization. One of his duties at the Commission was to chair the Research and Development Committee. Currently, he operates his own energy consulting company and serves

Boards of Directors:
• SAFE-BIDCO. State-chartered financial company focused on developing small businesses, Santa Rosa, CA. Member, Board of Directors, 1995-2001. Vice-Chairman, 1997-2000.
• San Diego Regional Energy Office. (co-founder) SDREO is a private non-profit organization working to build energy awareness and options in San Diego. Member 1996-2005, Chairman, Board of Directors, 1996-2003. See www.sdenergy.org
• EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute). Member, Policy Advisory Board, 1997-2002.
• Alzeta Corporation. High tech company in low emission technology. Member, Board of Directors, 2000-present. See www.alzeta.com
• Gas Technology Institute (formerly Gas Research Institute). Member, Board of Directors, 1998-present. Chairman, Core Program Executive Committee 2001-2006. Responsible for reviewing FERC funded R&D program. Represent public interest on this Board.
• ACTA. Technical product startup company. Member, Board of Directors, 1989-1991.

Special Assignments:
• Presentation to German Government and Utilities Leaders on California Elect Restructuring. U.S. Embassy, Berlin, Germany, Feb. 2001
• Testified to Congress on Electricity Industry R&D, March 1998
• Co-Chair, 4th Biomass Conference of the Americas, November, 1998
• Led Energy Trade Mission to Malaysia, April 1997
• Led Energy Education Mission to Panama in May 1997
• Led Electric Industry Restructuring Policy Exchange, Argentina, June 1996
• Implemented ISO 9000 Quality System, Solar Turbines Engineering, 1992-1995
• Member, Caterpillar Management Leadership Team for Corporate R&D, 1992-1995

Education:
• Ph.D, Experimental Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 1967
• B.A., Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA 1962

Publications
• Numerous technical publications
• Two patents

Bill Reed, an architect, is vice president of Natural Logic. Natural Logic consults with corporations and other clients on sustainability while focusing on integrative design. Bill has been involved with the USGBC since its founding.

Shayne is a building services engineer involved in the design and documentation of fire, plumbing and HVAC services. As a multi-disciplined services engineer, Shayne is able to ensure a truly coordinated approach to building services.

In addition to Shayne’s consulting role, he has a strong background in the plumbing industry and had operated his own consultancy prior to joining Lincolne Scott. He has an advanced diploma in mechanical engineering.

Heather Rosenberg has provided wide-ranging sustainability expertise on a wide range of projects for both public and private sector clients. She has specialized experience in sustainability audits, green strategy development and quantifying the environmental impacts of development. She has extensive experience in ecology and habitat assessment.

Ms. Rosenberg is coordinating CTG’s interdisciplinary team for Lennar’s Heritage Fields in Irvine, CA to develop sustainability recommendations for the developer and builders, while helping develop the CTG Sustainable Communities Model. This 3,700-acre brownfield reuse project will include residential, commercial, educational facilities and agriculture in a walkable, livable, mixed-use community that integrates sustainability throughout the design from infrastructure to the individual buildings.
1. As CTG’s project manager for Forest City’s Uptown Oakland project, Ms. Rosenberg is providing sustainability consulting for this mixed-use urban redevelopment project in downtown Oakland, assisting with meeting the City's sustainability requirements and LEED goals.
2. Ms. Rosenberg served as the LEED and sustainability project manager for the Natural Resources Defense Council Robert Redford Building in Santa Monica, CA, an urban renewal project which earned one of the first LEED Platinum ratings in the U.S. The building includes a range of green building materials, a stormwater capture system, a gray water treatment system, a PV array and other green building measures.
As project manager on the Santa Monica Main Library in Santa Monica, CA, Ms. Rosenberg worked closely with the design and construction teams to implement and document green building measures such as an innovative stormwater capture system, native and drought tolerant landscaping, and a building design that promotes optimal indoor air quality and energy efficiency.
On the Lennar Communities development at UC Merced, Ms. Rosenberg provided sustainable design support for a 2000+ acre mixed use, mixed income community in the Central Valley, and is assessing the viability of alternative stormwater management and wastewater systems, energy efficiency measures, and Smart Growth patterns of development.
Ms. Rosenberg led the solid waste component of a Sustainability Audit of the Monterey Bay Aquarium and has assisted furniture companies in evaluating the recycled content of their products.
Ms. Rosenberg has or is currently managing the LEED and sustainability services for a range of other projects for municipalities, universities, corporations and non-profit organizations.

Professional Registration and Affiliations:
Los Angeles Permaculture Guild
National Association of Environmental Professionals
Society for Conservation Biology
U.S. Green Building Council LEED™ Accredited Professional

Education:
Masters of Environmental Science & Management, University of California Santa Barbara, 2001
Bachelor of Science - Ecology,
The Evergreen State College, WA, 1996
Bachelor of Arts - Community Development,
The Evergreen State College, WA, 1996

Michael Schuerman has been director of research for the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. since late 2003. He has more than 20 years' experience in marketing research and is also a former newspaper reporter and editor.

Schuerman is currently working on research studies examining San Diego County's housing-cost crisis, its business climate, and the attitudes of local fourth and eighth graders toward their math and science classes. He also administers San Diego Market Intelligence, EDC's 90-page online reference on the county; produces GIS maps; responds to frequent data requests from site selectors and the public; and speaks frequently on economic development topics.

Schuerman holds a bachelor's degree in English from Cal State Fullerton and a professional certificate in GIS mapping from the University of California, Riverside Extension.

Marcus Sheffer, also part of the 7 Group, is a specialist in energy and daylighting. He is currently the president of Energy Opportunities.