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- Maggie Leslie
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Maggie Leslie, Program Director, WNC Green Building Council
Maggie Leslie has been working for the WNC Green Building Council since 2003, though became full-time staff in July of 2006. As a volunteer, Maggie served as Treasurer for the Council and chair of the Million Solar Roofs Initiative. Currently she is keeping busy as director of the HealthyBuilt Homes Program of Greater Asheville.
Maggie received her B.S. in Environmental Studies, concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Policy, from Warren Wilson College. Since completing her B.S., Maggie received a certificate in Sustainable Building Advisory from the City of Seattle, WA. After relocating back to the southeast, she worked with the Southface Energy Institute in Atlanta, Ga. While at Southface, Maggie trained as a HERS rater and developed her understanding of building science and sustainable design. Following working for Southface, Maggie moved back to Western North Carolina and worked for Home Energy Partners as the office manager and green building consultant from 2003 to 2006.
Contact Maggie at maggie@wncgbc.org
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March 19th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
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April 17th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Development and growth are complex issues that are confronting all the area cities as well as the counties but is not be addressed in any coordinated way. WE need a means to develop a plan that takes into account all of the parties involved including the public in a meaningful way. We need to ask how much growth is good? How does growth affect our quality of life and our standard of living? Who benefits and who suffers? What is the relationship between growth and sustainability? How much growth is due to second homes and homes over 3000 square feet? Can we asses property tax according to greenhouse gas responsibility?
There are a lot of variables that can be included in figuring out what we want our future area to look like but starting an inclusive discussion seems like an obvious need. Otherwise we just develop willy nilly and who wants to do that?