This past week has been a very productive and exciting week for us.

We’ve officially added three new team members (who I’ll announce shortly below), made the most comprehensive set of site updates since we first launched, met with a great, new potential client that’s got some amazing insight into some sorely neglected elements to the current, green wave, scheduled our solar powered, green web hosting server setup (along with a meet and greet of our data center providers), and a slew of other details.

Before I go any further, let me first announce our new team members.

First up is Dr. Ryan Wartena, serving as electrochemical engineer and energy systems designer. Here’s all his relative metadata:

B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UCSD with minors in philosophy and psychology; Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in Chemical Engineering with a minor in International Information Business Technology Management, Post-Docs at the Naval Research Laboratory (’01 – ‘03, Advanced Electrochemical Materials Section) and MIT (’04 – ‘07, Department of Material Science and Engineering) developing small battery technologies (3D architectures, bio-materials-based electrodes), energy systems, carbon nanotube structures and nanoparticle assembly techniques.

Co-founded and co-directed the Burn Clean Project that helped create the pathways to bring biodiesel generators and fuel to the Burning Man festival in ’06 and ’07 and successfully advocated for the use of biodiesel fuel in generator sets owned by commercial vendors. Co-organized the Burn Clean Project’s BIOBUS 2007 shuttle between Reno Airport and Black Rock City, NV. Assisted in the development of MIT’s solar house (Solar 7) entry into the 2007 Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon. Co-designed MIT’s 1.102 Spring 2007 course on building applied energy generators in the forms of wind turbines, a rowing machine, an exercise bike, a pedal station and a merry-go-round. Co-Developer of Growing Architecture (’97 to Present) Currently designing integrated PV applications as VP of E,R & D at Nano Sol Systems, Inc.

Next is Brent Heyning, our technical energy specialist and builder. All his bits and pieces include:

University of California, Los Angeles CA, Production Design, Art Direction, ’93 – ‘96;
BA Fine Arts: Engineering, Theatre - Technical Arts, University of Memphis, ’85 – ‘92

Technical Director - Toyshoppe Productions, Los Angeles, CA ’04 - Present; Power/stages at LightningInABottle.org, Sound/power at Black Rock City, OYA Energy installation (with Ryan Wartena, Elizabeth Marley, Evonne Heynig), technical robots and craft for film/tv, custom LED design for clients such as Disneyland and the CW Network, television appearances include Monster House (2005) & voice talent for shorts & commercials.

And last but far from least, Evonne Heyning: Green Fairy, Interactive Artist, Writer and Producer. Bringing new worlds together:

B.A., Religion/Chaplaincy, Business, Communication Arts, Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA, September ’93 – May ‘98

Post-fire cleanup & sustainability planning for Madre Grande (’07), OYA/Green Man Pavilion, Many international bridge building & resourcing projects with Amoration/International Humanities Center (’04 – ‘07), Founded/organized the first AltWheels festival in New England (’03), Artist/Teacher at Apeiron Foundation (building a sustainable, all-natural ecocenter, 2001-2). Television appearances as an artist for Blind Date, Monster House & Black Rock City documentaries (’05). Frequent speaker on the use of virtual worlds for international gatherings, saving the cost of carbon by interactively working together.

So, our team is becoming even more well-rounded and with its collective, multi-disciplinary experience is eager to dive into its next project. Throughout the course of the last several weeks we’ve been engaging in some very exciting discussions pertaining to the services we currently offer and those we plan to offer.

In the meantime, site work continues with minor content changes, though we’ve just recently hired an experienced programmer to help start tackling various projects, as the company’s finances allow. Current recent updates include the addition of a new page for green, getting started steps that offers several levels of detailed suggestions, questionnaires and even an introduction to the art and science of biomimicry, along with some about and services updates.

Lastly, earlier this past week I met with another highly committed socially conscious entrepreneur to discuss our mutual companies and see how we can best serve each other’s needs. More on this as things develop…