Partner Profiles
Deep Green Living
Deep Green Living is your support service for green change. Deep Green Living helps you make smarter and healthier choices for yourself, your family, business, and the planet. We sift through, and make sense of, the current overflow of ecological advice and information, and provide you with customized, actionable solutions.
Our experts visit your home or office to develop an understanding of your building, your maintenance services, and your daily practices – we analyze everything from your utility bills to the products under your sink. We then identify all your effective green opportunities, implement immediate modifications, answer all your eco-questions, set up appointments with our trusted network of service providers, and leave you with an individualized road map that will help you retrofit your space for green change and get everyone else onboard. Clients can choose from and combine services from the following list of programs. Each program is tailored to individual values and needs and includes: a custom report, a detailed implementation plan, and a toolkit of products that will help you make immediate and lasting changes.
Alec Strongin - Synergy Engineering, PLLC
Synergy is a professional engineering firm dedicated to assisting building owners, developers, and design teams with creating sustainable high performance buildings. Synergy offers comprehensive suite of professional services that include Building Commissioning and Retro-Commissioning, LEED Energy Modeling, and Energy Management. Synergy Engineering's practice integrates and enhances the traditionally separate functions of Design, Construction, and Operations.
We gear the team efforts toward the integration of all building components into a unified, energy efficient, environment and tenant friendly system. One that is easier to maintain and achieve persistent energy efficient operation and occupants comfort. Synergy Engineering brings additional value by fostering teamwork and implementing the Integrated Design Process while delivering our core expertise services such as Building Commissioning and Retro-Commissioning, LEED Energy Modeling, and Energy Management.
Mr. Strongin is a Principal of Synergy Engineering, PLLC. He possesses a high level of expertise in the energy systems design, installation, and commissioning as well as hands-on field experience with energy systems performance, indoor air quality (IAQ), startup, balancing, testing, troubleshooting, operation, and maintenance procedures. He serves on a USGBC core committee for Retail where he was tasked with developing the LEED Rating and Certification Program for Retail Buildings.
Annette K. Stelmack, Principal - Inspirit-llc, Allied Member ASID
Annette is the founder and principal of Inspirit fusing environmental stewardship and creativity by inspiring future generations through instilling courage and life. With 30 years of experience in the building industry, Annette is a nationally recognized design leader, educator/trainer and author - influencing proactive transformation in the building industry and synergistically sharing her passion, knowledge and strategies for sustainability and green design. An interior designer by training accompanied by three decades of hands-on experience, Annette is an accomplished project manager excelling in the design, research, documentation, specification and implementation of interior architecture and furnishings for residential, multi-unit housing, hospitality and spa projects. Integrated project teams are Annette’s favorite project type where green building strategies are paramount to the success of the project. Annette's award winning work has been widely recognized and she was named one of the 'Top Ten Green Design Gurus' by Innovative Home magazine in Spring of 2008. Her recent projects received the highest honors from the ASID Colorado Chapter for 'Best Sustainable Residences' two consecutive years. She was interviewed for American Architectural Review, a PBS Green Design Series, and has lectured on sustainability at national conferences including - ASID's Interiors, GreenBuild, West Coast Green, EnvironDesign, National Building Museum, and Metrocon.
Annette was instrumental in mentoring and co-leading Associates III as their former Design Director; pioneering the field of sustainable residential interiors. Environmental literacy is paramount to Annette, exemplified through her co-authored book 'Sustainable Residential Interiors' published in 2007 by Wiley & Sons. She wrote the book with her peers, Foster and Hindman, their synergistic passion creating a catalyst for change within the residential design community. 'Sustainable Residential Interiors' takes readers through an integrated design process, demonstrating how sustainable principles and practices can be applied on virtually every level of interior design. Covering topics such as indoor air quality, identifying low-impact materials, conserving energy and water, green cleaning and maintenance, and support of construction teams in reducing waste, 'Sustainable Residential Interiors' clearly and succinctly lays out strategies and tools to meet not only homeowner's needs, but those of the planet. Their book was granted the Joel Polsky award by the ASID Educational Foundation to recognize outstanding academic contributions to the discipline of interior design through literature based on innovative subject matter, comprehensive coverage, organization, graphic presentation, bibliography and references. Annette chairs ASID's National Sustainable Design Council and USGBC Colorado's Green School Initiative and was founding board member of the U.S. Green Building Council - Colorado Chapter, serving as steering committee chair and chapter president. Annette served on the Technical Steering Committee contributing to the development and content of the ASID/USGBC ReGreen - Residential Remodeling Guidelines released Spring 2008. In her spare time she enjoys mentoring and tutoring kids through Boulder's "I Have a Dream" Foundation.
Thor Peterson
Thor Peterson has nearly a decade's worth of experience researching, educating, and developing and managing programs related to green building and resource conservation. Thor's eight-year tenure with the City of Seattle green building program focused on providing resources and information on residential green building design and products. While at the City of Seattle, he developed and was primary author of the Green Home Remodel series of guides, as well as managing the residential green building programming for Seattle Public Utilities and the Seattle Department of Planning and Development. The guides have since been adapted for use by the City of Chicago, the Washington State Department of Ecology, and others. He also assisted in the development of Regreen, the USGBC/ASID resource for residential remodels.
Most recently, Thor served as Research Director for the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, a chapter of both the US and Canada Green Building Council. His duties included developing and expanding programming related to the Living Building Challenge and the PHAROS project.
Thor holds a Master of Public Administration degree with a focus in environmental policy from the University of Washington.
Ashley Muse
Ashley Muse has experience in creating high performance, sustainable buildings. As a sustainable design consultant she has provided recommendations and integrated design strategies for a range of project types including institutional and educational buildings, large mixed-use developments, and campus master plans. She has expertise within the subjects of energy and water use, daylight analysis, material selection, and indoor environmental quality. Ashley has held leadership roles in Rocky Mountain Institute's LEED certification review team and the US Green Building Council's Emerging Green Builders Committee and Colorado Chapter.
Ashley has also worked at several Colorado architectural firms and has experience teaching and developing green building education programs with the University of Colorado's College of Architecture and Planning. She is currently an instructor for the Boston Architectural College's Online Sustainable Design Certificate program.