Annette Stelmack

Annette is the founder and principal of Inspirit-llc instilling courage and life by inspiring through a fusion of environmental stewardship and creativity.  With 30 years of experience in the building industry, Annette is a nationally recognized design leader, educator and author - influencing proactive transformation by synergistically sharing her passion, knowledge and strategies for sustainable design.  As a loving activist and literate for environmental stewardship her educational programs target ecologically responsible design and living to all ages through curriculum development, continuing education programs, ASIDs Distinguished Speaker Series and as a USGBC Faculty™ member. 

A LEED® AP Building Design + Construction designer with three decades of hands-on experience, Annette is an accomplished project manager excelling in the planning, design, research, documentation, specification and implementation of interior architectural finishes/details and furnishings for residential, multi-unit housing, hospitality and spa projects.  As a sustainability consultant on integrative design teams, Annette’s favorite project types engage mutual respect and green building strategies, paramount to a projects success.

Annette is a subject matter expert for ASID and USGBCs REGREEN Residential Remodeling Guidelines and contributing editor for ‘Green Building Advisor’.  The Green Economy Post recently included her in ‘Honoring 10 Women in Green Building and Design’ and Innovative Home magazine named her one of the ‘Top Ten Green Design Gurus’.   Her award winning work has been widely published and recent projects received the highest honors from the ASID Colorado Chapter for 1st place ‘Residential Sustainable Design’.  She was interviewed for American Architectural Review, a PBS Green Design Series, and has lectured on sustainability at national conferences including GreenBuild, NeoCon, West Coast Green, EnvironDesign, Coverings, National Building Museum, and Metrocon. 

Environmental literacy is paramount to Annette, exemplified through her co-authored book ‘Sustainable Residential Interiors’ published in 2007 by Wiley & Sons.  Teaming with co-authors Foster and Hindman, their synergistic passion created a book that takes readers through sustainable principles and practices, integrated design, and how these apply to interior design on multiple levels. The authors’ work is an acknowledged catalyst for change awarded the Joel Polsky Prize by ASIDs Educational Foundation in 2008 recognizing their outstanding academic contributions to the discipline of interior design.

Annette is honored to chair ASIDs National Sustainable Design Council and USGBC Colorado’s Green School Initiative; and sits on the advisory board for the Healthy Home 2010.  She was founding board member of the U.S. Green Building Council Colorado Chapter serving as steering committee chair, the chapters’ first president and co-leader of the Finance committee for Greenbuild ‘06 hosted in Denver.  USGBC Colorado recently selected Annette as Volunteer of the Year. In her spare time she loves organic gardening, kayaking, biking, and spending time with family especially her husband Tom, their dog Buffett, her son Bryan and daughter-in-law Courtney and her immigrant parents John and Kathy.

 

Peter Yost

Peter is the Director of Residential Services for BuildingGreen, LLC in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has been building, researching, teaching, writing, and consulting on high performance homes for more than twenty five years. His expertise stretches from construction waste management and advanced framing to energy efficiency and building durability. Peter has made significant contributions to the work of many leading homebuilding organizations and initiatives—NAHB Researcher Center, Building Science Corporation, 3-D Building Solutions, EEBA, Masco's Environments for Living® program, USGBC's LEED for Homes and REGREEN programs, and the US Department of Energy's Building America program. Peter was the principal author of the NAHB Advanced Green Building-Building science course materials and a co-author of the USGBC REGREEN workshop curriculum.

Peter is currently Technical Director for GreenBuildingAdvisor.com, an instructor for the Boston Architectural College's Sustainable Design Certificate program and an adjunct faculty member of the University of Massachusetts Department of Building Materials and Wood Technology program in Amherst.

Peter lives with his wife and two daughters in a 100-year old home in which he gets to maintain his remodeling skills on a continual basis.