Topher Buck is a Senior Project Manager at GreenBlue®, where, among other things, he manages GreenBlue's CleanGredients® project, a database of information on chemical product ingredients that supports environmentally preferable product formulation. Over the past 20 years, Topher has worked with government agencies, private-sector firms, non-profit organizations, and academics in a wide variety of settings. His academic background and work experience comprise environmental chemistry, toxicology, ecology, energy systems, information design, and IT systems development. Topher holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry and religious studies from Wesleyan University and a master's degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and he spent five years in the Ph.D. program at the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.
GreenBlue President and CEO Lance Hosey is a nationally recognized architect, designer, and writer on sustainable design. He has worked with some of the world's most successful companies and organizations to advance sustainable innovations. With Kira Gould, he is co-author of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (Ecotone Publishing, 2007), the first design book to study the links between diversity and environmentalism. His forthcoming book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design, demonstrates how form and image can enhance conservation, comfort, and community at every scale of design. Lance's essays on the social and environmental aspects of design have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The Washington Business Journal, Metropolis, Architectural Record, and Grist, and currently he is a Contributing Editor with Architect magazine, where he writes the monthly "Ecology" column. Lance has been featured in Metropolis magazine's "Next Generation" program and Architectural Record's "emerging architect" series. Until 2009, he served as Director with the renowned sustainable design and architecture firm William McDonough + Partners, with which he had been associated for nearly a decade. His clients included some of the world's most innovative organizations, including Palm, SC Johnson, NASA, and Google. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Art History from Columbia University and his Master of Architecture from Yale University.
Erin Malec joined GreenBlue in 2007 as the director of external relations. She brings with her over ten years of experience in public interest communications and policy on a broad range of issues, from the environment to economic development and public health. Before joining GreenBlue, she worked as a political strategist and writer for a Bay Area think tank, the Breakthrough Institute, and its sister company, American Environics. Erin also managed the communications department for the Breast Cancer Fund, a national nonprofit organization focused on the environmental links to the disease, and she was a senior account executive at Fenton Communications, the nation's largest public interest communications firm. Erin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania.