Greg Searle
Executive Director, BioRegional North America
Greg is responsible for building partnerships to create One Planet Communities in Canada and the United States. He is an experienced facilitator and entrepreneur, and leads teams in the development of Sustainability Action Plans and Green Lifestyle programs.

Greg is an expert in sustainable lifestyle programs, and lived at the BedZED eco-neighborhood in London, UK, while studying the long-term impacts of the sustainable lifestyles program that operated there 2002-4.

Greg has provided presentations and keynote speeches at over 50 conferences around the world, on subjects including lessons learned from building and operating the BedZED urban eco-village, fostering sustainable lifestyles, green building, and the remarkable findings of ecological footprint analysis as a development planning tool. His GreenBuild 2006 presentation in Denver, Colorado was rated by 98% of attendees as Excellent (68%) or Above Average (30%). He has been a guest lecturer on sustainability at Ryerson University (Toronto) and Texas A&M University. Greg has been invited to address such prestigious bodies as the US Senate sub-committee on Knowledge Management (2004), and the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) Quadrennial Congress in Amman, Jordan (2001).

He also writes on sustainability issues; his latest article appeared in Corporate Knights magazine, along with an interview in TreeHugger.

Greg previously served as a consultant to the United Nations (FAO - Rome), the World Conservation Union (IUCN - Brussels), the International Development Research Centre, and Industry Canada. He is also the co-founder of award-winning knowledge management firm Tomoye Corporation and inventor of its enterprise software.

Greg is responsible for catalyzing a number of other projects, including the oneFish Fisheries Resarch Portal (2000), the Wellington Freespace Community Network (1994), and participatory research firm Telecommons Development Group (1993).

Greg has lived in London, Rome, and Boston, and consulted extensively in Brussels and Washington, D.C. He currently lives northwest of Ottawa in one of Canada's greenest municipalities, Chelsea, Quebec, on the banks of the beautiful Gatineau River. the electricfrog is his personal weblog.

Rodney Wilts, LLB, LEED AP
Senior Consultant
Rodney is a LEED Accredited Professional and respected green building consultant and writer with specialized expertise in the green products supply chain. Rodney is also founder of the Healthiest Home & Building Supplies, Canada's first and largest green building store. As CEO of the Healthiest Home, Rodney regularly was engaged by developers and procured green products for LEED certified projects. The Healthiest Home and Building Supplies was sold in the fall of 2005.

Prior to his green building consulting career, Rodney served as an environmental lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law in Vancouver, where he studied regulatory barriers to green building.

Rodney writes a column on green building products for Building Magazine. The magazine is distributed bi-monthly to all of the registered architects in Canada and is available on newstands.

Rodney was recently invited to sit on the selection committee for the Net Zero Energy Healthy Housing Initiative. This government program encourages developers to compete in creating healthy, green, net zero homes. Sixty-five developers have entered the competition, with the winners receiving technical and marketing assistance as well as financial support.

Alex J. Hill
Senior Engineering Consultant
Alex Hill specialises in green buildings and community energy projects. He is the General Manager for Green Energy Benny Farm, a community owned Energy Services Company (ESCO) that is building and managing renewable energy and efficient heating systems. He is also the Project Manager for Abondance Montréal, Canada's first Net-Zero energy residential condominium.

Alex's background in chemical and environmental engineering, is combined with experience managing a variety of projects in the fields of international development, environment and community development. He has founded and spearheaded a range of innovative sustainability initiatives, including The Rooftop Garden Project, which is an international urban agriculture project that addresses the common food security challenges in the developed and developing world, and Montreal's first Biodiesel demonstration in 110 city buses. Alex serves on Montreal's Urban Ecology Centre's Board of Directors where he works within a multi-disciplinary team to explore ways to build sustainable, equitable and democratic urban communities.

Geneva Guerin
Sustainability Consultant
Geneva has been BioRegional's lead researcher in producing a Sustainability Action Plan for a neighborhood-scale real estate development project in Montreal. She is also the brains behind much of BioRegional's work developing the research methodology for the sustainable lifestyles reality TV show on Discovery Planet Green.

In 2005 she organized a national conference on campus sustainability that brought together leading thinkers and actors. Geneva's sustainability work experience includes assessing and reporting, program coordination and project management, process facilitation, research and communications. She has experience working with architects in materials assessing for new construction, as well as in reviewing existing buildings to identify areas of improvement for ventilation and air quality, energy efficiency and psychology of space/interior design. Geneva studied political science at Concordia University. She is also a filmmaker and is based in Montreal, Canada with the Sustainability Solutions Group Workers Cooperative.