CHARLIE CHARTIER - Chair

LINDA STONE - Co-Chair

Linda Stone is a Policy Associate for Global Green USA. She also serves as co-chair of USGBC’s Louisiana Advocacy Committee. Linda has worked with the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, founded The Green Project, and served as director of Mayor Morial’s Office of Environmental Affairs. In 2002, Linda took a job in San Antonio as director of the Metropolitan Partnership for Energy. Linda has a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of New Orleans.

ANISA BALDWIN METZGER

Anisa Baldwin Metzger works with the U.S. Green Building Council as their New Orleans Green Building Coordinator. She has worked with Architecture firms in Little Rock and Seattle to implement environmentally sustainable design in commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. She holds a BS in Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and a Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington in Seattle. She took part in starting Seattle's chapter of Architecture for Humanity, a group dedicated to combating homelessness and poverty through design and construction of socially responsible structures. Her position with USGBC focuses on the implementation of LEED standards in the Recovery School District's new schools and major renovations as well as on the support of current efforts to green the RSD's existing schools.

STEVE PICOU

Steve Picou has a background in sustainability, community activism, music and real estate. He is a futurist with a broad, system-oriented perspective. In his work at the LSU AgCenter, Steve promotes sustainable/green building, wind code compliance and energy efficiency. Steve previously served as Assistant Director of the Louisiana Music Commission for more than a decade, giving him a strong understanding of governmental processes, politics and bureaucracy. Steve is a graduate of the University of New Orleans and a Fellow of the Loyola University of New Orleans Institute of Politics.

THOMAS RUSH

Communications Manager, Greater New Orleans, Inc.

A recent graduate from Florida State University with a B.S. in Economic Development and Creative Writing. Professional experience includes working with the City of New Orleans Department of Public Works in establishing private funding mechanisms for infrastructure improvements. He is the co-founder of One World Communicates, an international non-profit which aims at increasing access to education and looks to focus on sustainable international economic development in developing countries.

Currently serving as: member of the Alliance for Affordable Energy Solar Committee, New Orleans USGBC Advocacy Committiee, South-east Louisiana Boys and Girls Club Executive Board, and Where Y'at Magazine Arts and Culture Editor.

GRASSHOPPER MENDOZA

Is a real estate sales and leasing agent with NAI/Latter & Blum Inc where she focuses on energy efficient, green building development in the commercial sector. Grasshopper is a graduate of San Francisco State University where she earned a degree in International Business.

Grasshopper promotes economic development via sustainable infrastructure and quality of life improvements in New Orleans. She Chairs the Horizon Initiative’s Water Mgmt. Sub-Committee, is a member of the US Green Building Council Louisiana Advocacy Committee and is a Parkway Partners/Louisiana Urban Forestry Council certified Citizen Forester.

TONY LASKA, Ph.D.

New Orleans Program Manager, Conservation Services Group
Trained in coastal/estuarine ecology, served as environmental planner and advisor to the mayor during the ‘80’s. Energy Coordinator, City of New Orleans. Field and lab toxicology research on EPA-funded study of HCB and HCBD, UNO. Executive Director, The Wetlands Conservancy, Oregon. Special Assistant to the President, Clatsop Community College, liaison with congress and advocates for design and construction funding of Marine and Environmental Research & Training Station, Astoria. Multifamily Coordinator and Home Energy Review Program Manager for Conservation Services Group, Portland Oregon.