CP900 SYMPOSIUM

Go Green Now:
Embracing Energy Efficiency,
Healthy Housing and Green Building

Atlanta, Georgia • February 27, 2008

Speaker Profile: Walker Wells. AICP

Mr. Wells is Director of the Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Communities Program for Global Green USA, a national non-profit organization headquartered in Santa Monica.   He works with affordable housing developers, municipalities, and school districts across the country to further green building and sustainable development practices by providing technical assistance, conducting charrettes and workshops, and developing public policy.  Mr. Wells is an editor and a co-author of the 2007 book Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing and the 2006 publication Creating Successful Green Building Programs.

Prior to joining Global Green Mr. Wells was a Senior Urban Design with Gruen Associates in Los Angeles, an Associate Planner with the City of Santa Monica, and an Urban Planner for the City of Malmo, Sweden.  Mr. Wells holds Bachelor’s degrees in Sociology and Environmental Studies from the University of California Santa Barbara and a Master’s of City and Regional from the California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo.  He also studied at Lund University and the Lund PolyTechnic Institute School of Architecture in Swden.  Mr. Wells is a certified urban planner, a LEED Accredited Professional, an advisor to the AIA National Housing Committee, a member of the US Green Building Council’s LEED for Home Committee (representing the affordable housing sector), an invited contributor to the Planetizen web site, and a lecturer on Green Urbanism at the Claremont Colleges.

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