Green Builder Media LLC is a North American media company focused exclusively on green building and responsible growth in construction. Founded in 2005, by custom builder Ron Jones and business partner Sara Gutterman, Green Builder Media is based in Eastsound, Washington. In 2011, Folio Magazine noted that the company's revenue has increased 200 percent nearly every year since its launch.
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Green Builder Magazine
Green Builder Media produces the award-winning monthly business-to-business magazine Green Builder. The magazine covers sustainable homes, high performance construction techniques, innovations in energy efficiency, water conservation, eco-landscaping, resilient housing, building science, indoor air quality and many other topics related to sustainability and construction.
The founding editor was John D. Wagner (University of Alabama). Wagner is the author of 14 books and more than 2,000 journalism articles (Wall Street Journal, the Asian Wall Street Journal, NY Times, and NPR's All Things Considered). He was previously the features editor for the Journal of Light Construction. Wagner resigned from Green Builder Magazine in 2006.
The current Editor-in-Chief is Matt Power(University of Florida). Power is a veteran writer and editor who previously served as Editor-in-Chief of Custom Builder and Senior Editor for both Builder and Professional Builder, recipient of dozens of writing awards including several Jesse H. Neal awards which are "the most prestigious editorial honors in the field of specialized journalism".
Projects
Along with the magazine, Green Builder Media constructs high-performance demonstration homes around the country. To date, they have completed homes and interactive exhibits in Tucson, AZ; Los Angeles, CA; Orlando, FL; Aspen, CO; Las Vegas, NV and Lake City, CO.
From 2012 to 2015, Green Builder Media partnered with the National Fire Protection Association, Siemens, GM, Ingersoll-Rand, Armstrong, Boral, Hanwha Solar, Kohler, Panasonic, Pella and Schott AG in collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering, to create the VISION HOUSE at Innoventions (Epcot). The exhibit was the latest in a series of futuristic representations of the American home. Its predecessors include the famous Monsanto House of the Future, a popular exhibit at Disney's Tomorrowland.
In 2015, GreenBuilder ran a 9-part series called "The Celestia Project", which looked at what life might be like in the year 2100, through a lens of sustainability and green living.