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Advisory Council

Russ Martin, Co-Chair (Former Mayor of Asheville and Investment Officer, Merrill Lynch & Co.)

David Wallace, Co-Chair (Vice President for Strategic Development, Vanir Energy)

John Ager (Owner, Hickory Gap Nut Farm)

Jim Barton (Director, Smith Mill Creek Permaculture School)

George Briggs (Executive Director, North Carolina Arboretum)

Tom Byers (Western North Carolina Marketing Director, Self-Help Ventures Fund)

Robin Cape (RLCape Consulting)

Carl Donovan (Board Member, Western North Carolina Green Building Council)

Robert Deutsch (Robert J. Deutsch, PA)

Susan Garrett (Green Jobs Director, Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry)

Patti Glazer (Principal, Glazer Architecture)

Neil Gurney (Partner, Integritive)

Scott Hamilton (President and CEO, AdvantageWest Economic Development Group)

Dave Hollister (Owner, Sundance Power Systems)

Betty Huskins (President, Ridgetop Associates)

Jess Ingram (Director of Solar Technologies, FLS Energy)

Janell Kapoor (Co-Founder & Co-Director, Kleiwerks International, Spokesperson, Ashevillage Institute)

Paul Knott (Director, Center of Graduate Studies of Asheville, Lenoir- Ryhne University)

Yuri Koslen (Transit Project Manager, City of Asheville)

Lourdes Lorenz (Director of Integrative Healthcare, Mission Hospitals)

Rob Moody (Founder, EcoBuilders)

Susan Roderick (Executive Director, Quality Forward)

Jeff Schmitt (Research Director, Bent Creek Institute)

Clarke Snell (Managing Director, The Nauhaus Institute)

Willam “Tilt” Thomkins (Senior Policy Fellow, Institute for the Economy and the Future, Western Carolina University)

Ron Townley (Local Government Services Director, Land of Sky Regional Council)

Contact Information

The BRSI offices are located in downtown Asheville, Suite 2 of the mezzanine level of the
Haywood Park Hotel

Mailing Address:
1 Battery Park Ave., Suite M2
Asheville, NC, 28801.

Phone: 828-348-5191

Email: admin@blueridgesustainability.org

And you can always send us any inquiries you might have via our contact form

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