Triena Slatter – President
Anchorage, Alaska
email: uniquers3@gmail.com
Triena is a civil drafter formerly with the US Forest Service. She used AutoCAD and other Architectural and Engineering software to upgrade designs of commercial buildings and recreational campground and trail systems. Now involved with several Anchorage and statewide sustainability movements. Coordinator and networker for Meet-up, Permaculture, and Transition Town groups. Skilled in social networking and computer drawings. Helped promote the Alaska Solar Tour and Advanced Lighting workshops. Certified by Alaska Craftsman Home programs on Home Energy Efficiency. She has completed several energy efficiency upgrades on Anchorage homes.
Jason Collins, AIA LEED AP – Vice President
Palmer, Alaska
email: collinsarchitect@gmail.com
Jason is a registered Architect, a certified Energy Rater and a USGBC LEED Accredited Professional. He has been practicing in the field of Architecture for over 12 years with 7 years of projects in the Mat-Su Valley. He has a broad range of experience in project scales ranging from full campus master planning, to large-scale new construction, to small renovations. Much of his focus has been on environmentally-friendly and energy-efficient design and construction. He has worked on two LEED projects in Alaska. In 2008, Jason formed Collins Architecture + Energy Conservation LLC to provide residential architectural services as well as energy ratings. Since then he has been providing residential energy ratings through the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation program. He has also been working with non-profit organizations and church groups to perform commercial energy audits to help them reduce their capital operating expenses.
Mark Masteller, MSC - Secretary
Palmer, Alaska
email: mark@cascadiagbc.org
Mark is the Alaska Director for Cascadia Green Building Council, a not-for-profit chapter of both the US and Canada Green Building Councils. Cascadia’s mission is to lead a transformation toward a built environment that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. Mark has worked in Alaska for 29 years, in both urban and rural areas. He worked for 19 years as a wildlife biologist, and 8 years as director of the Alaska Center for Appropriate Technology. He is dedicated to developing ecological sustainable communities, and helping people address the significant challenges found across this geographically and culturally diverse and beautiful state. Mark graduated from Colorado State University with Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Wildlife Biology.
Harvey Bowers – Treasurer
Wasilla, Alaska
email: harvey@agateinn.com
William Harvey Bowers is a founding member of the Alaska Center For Appropriate Technology (ACAT). He served as President of the organization for 9 of its first 15 years of existence. Harvey and his wife Sandy own the Agate Inn. The Agate Inn’s new 1800 sq ft conference center, designed and built by Harvey was completed 2002. The conference center is a real life example of sustainable design combined with professional craftsmanship using recycled materials and high efficiency techniques, passive solar lighting, low energy LED fixtures, R50 insulation, and triple pane argon filled windows. The meeting room serves as inspiration and site for many of ACAT’s meetings and workshops. From 1992 to present Harvey served as a Managing Member of Alaska Recycled Paper Woods, LLC. Harvey was the Executive Director for the Alaska Craftsman Home Program from 1989 to 1991. He worked as a Chief Field Hydrologist and Engineering Geologist from 1972 until the 1985. Harvey has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Geology from Alaska Methodist University, and has co-authored numerous manuals and books on energy efficient building techniques.
Roger Rowell, Ph.D. – Board Member
Madison, Wisconsin
email: rmrowell@wisc.edu
Roger retired from the USDA, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory in 2007 after 41 years as a senior technical pioneering scientist. He also retired in 2007 after 35 years from the Biological Systems Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin and is now a Professor Emeritus at the University. He is also a Guest Professor for Ecobuild (an Institute in Stockholm, Sweden dedicated to new ecological building concepts). He has presented many lectures at both international and national meetings and is a consultant for several companies in the US, Europe and Asia. His interests include research into composites made from sustainable agro-resources, fiber/plastic composites, biomass modification to improve stability and durability and use of natural fibers to remove contaminants from polluted water. Roger has over 350 publications, including 11 books, and holds 26 patents.
Gene Backus – Board Member
Wasilla, Alaska
email: khopp@mtaonline.net
Gene owns Alascon Precast Concrete which manufactures precast concrete transformer pads, including work for the Kotzebue Wind Farm project. He has been involved in energy retrofits for many years. Gene is interested in bridging the gap between people and the technology learning curve. Gene has lived in Alaska since 1961 and the Mat-Su Valley since 1978.
Stephanie Nowers – Board Member
Palmer, Alaska
email: snowers@mtaonline.net
Stephanie is the Communications Director for Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP), a non-profit that uses education, advocacy and collaboration to promote the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Alaska. Previously, she spent 16 years working as a reporter and editor for the Anchorage Daily News. Stephanie has tracked renewable energy issues and developments in energy efficiency since her college days at the University of Washington. She is enthusiastic about the ongoing work in our state and Alaska’s leadership potential in clean energy development. Stephanie has lived in the Palmer area with her husband, Stephen Nowers, and enjoys gardening, fishing, riding horses, and the challenges of raising two children.
Richard DeBusman – Board Member
Copperopolis, California
email: rn.deb@hotmail.com
Richard taught high school construction trades in Wasilla for 20 years and built the first 5 star plus home in Alaska. A founder of the Alaska Craftsman Home Program and ACAT, Richard has built energy efficient homes in Wasilla, Homer, Hawaii and California. His first off-grid home was in Sadie Cove, near Seldovia. His current Net Zero Energy home is a very impressive straw bale house powered by solar and wind located in an off grid community near Yosemite, California.
