Board of Directors & Advisors

SEI Board of Directors

Jeff Dickinson
Biospaces and Sustainable Design

Jeff is an architect, energy consultant and author who has been a Practitioner of Sustainable Architectural Design Alternatives for the past 20 years. He has designed and built passive solar, super-insulated, strawbale and Earthship homes. Jeff consults and writes on a variety of sustainable building issues, including green building materials and energy building codes.

Don Phillipson
Phillipson Sustainable Energy Options

Don is a lawyer specializing in civil litigation. His work has involved water rights, patents, trade secrets, contracts, and antitrust claims often relating to technologies (e.g., electronic fuel injection and batteries). He has participated in SEI's Hydrogen Workshop and Advanced Photovoltaics Workshop.

Johnny Weiss
Solar Energy International

Johnny has been a full-time renewable energy educator for over 20 years. He helped develop and teach a vocational solar training program at Colorado Mountain College from 1980 to 1990. He is a Cofounder of SEI, and is currently the Executive Director. Johnny regularly works with Native Americans and on international projects.

Jane Koger
Homestead Ranch

After attending the Women's PV workshop in 2000, Jane had an all-women’s crew from SEI, including participants from the workshop, install a 2-kW PV system on her organic cattle ranch in Kansas. Then she built a straw-bale house, using power from the PV system and straw that she grew and baled herself. In 2001, Jane hosted the Wind Power workshop on her land, and the participants installed a 1-kW wind machine for Jane’s ranch. Jane's house has a composting toilet, a greywater system, rainwater collection, and 16 solar hot water panles which provide radiant floor heating.

Jock Jacober
Jacober Brothers Construction

Jock is a local builder in the Roaring Fork Valley who specializes in Straw Bale Construction and Green Building.

Mark Kavasch

SEI Advisory Board

Donald Aitken
Don Aitken Associates  www.donaldaitkenassociates.com/ 

J. Douglas Balcomb
National Renewable Energy Laboratory www.nrel.gov/

Barb Chambliss, PhD
Mediator and Therapist     

Pliny Fisk III
Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems www.cmpbs.org/

Alex Hillinger
Good Chemistry http://www.goodchemistry.com 

Joe Jordan
NASA www.nasa.gov/   

Barbara Kerr
Center for Sustainable Living www.simplycsl.org/

Thomas A. Lawand
Brace Research Institute     

Philip Livingston
Renewable Energy Consultant

Amory Lovins
Rocky Mountain Institute www.rmi.org/

Maureen McIntyre
American Solar Energy Society www.ases.org/

Don Osborn
Spectrum Energy www.spectrumenergyinc.com/  

Richard & Karen Perez
Home Power Magazine www.homepower.com/

Sam Vanderhoof
Clean Power Associates cleanpowerassociates.com/

Neville Williams
Standard Solar Inc. www.standardsolar.com/

Robert Wills
Advanced Energy Systems  www.aesrenew.com/  

Randy Udall
Community Office of Resource Efficiency (CORE) www.aspencore.org/