Sustainable New Neighborhood Development for Whitehorse, Canada, Consultants:  Luis Borrero and Patricia Chase.  Client:  UMA Engineering, Ltd. on behalf of the City of Whitehorse.

Synopis:  We were hired by UMA Engineering's Vancouver, Canada office to develop sustainability indicators and provide examples of sustainable neighborhood and building development for a sub-arctic city in Northern Canada.  Our recommendations were based on the integration of various aspects of neighborhood development, including site design, electricity and heat production and distribution, waste processing, and energy efficient and passive building design. We also provided real life, tried and true examples from a similar-sized communities in sub-Arctic Sweden.

Waste Management:  A Comparison between Seattle, Washington and Copenhagen Denmark, Lead Consultant:  Luis Borrero for the International Sustainability Institute;  Managing Consultant:  Patricia Chase.  Client:  Seattle City Council

Synopsis:  While Seattle considers itself to be a world leader in waste management, the truth is that the city recycles about half of its waste, not including construction and demolition waste, while sending the rest almost 300 miles away to be landfilled in Oregon.  In comparison, Copenhagen with a similar population size, landfills less than 3% of its waste which includes construction and demolition waste, and processes all waste within seven miles of the city center.  In addition, Copenhagen gets electricity and heat from its waste through clean, efficient waste to energy plants.

Tools to Signal the Importance of Pedestrians and Bicyclists, Lead Consultant:  Susana Musi for the International Sustainability Institute; Managing Consultant:  Patricia Chase.  Client:  Seattle City Council and Seattle Dept. of Transportation

Synopsis:  Cities need to make it obvious that bicycles are welcome.  World class bicycle infrastructure, which separates bicyclists from cars, is the most important piece.  However, cities can enhance the bicycling experience through technology, such as bicycle counters, which not only gather data about bicyclists, but have eye-catching displays to show bicyclists they are being noticed and tracked.  Many European cities have already installed these type of bicycle counters.  This report provides detailed information on bicycle counters and other technologies that enhance experience of bicyclists and pedestrians.

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Tad Lewis is a business development executive and attorney with expertise in forming strategic joint ventures, private venture finance, asset-based financings, and licensing and distribution arrangements. Tad has been involved in starting new ventures, launching new products and services, and managing growing businesses for more than 20 years. Tad’s unique breadth of experience comes from holding both legal and non-legal positions at well-established firms such as the The Boeing Company and at start-ups like AccessLine Communications, a premium business communications provider, including General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer and VP Business Development. Tad is currently affiliated with Seattle’s Mundt MacGregor, a thirty year-old law firm with established connections in the fishing, banking and manufacturing sectors in Denmark, Norway and Iceland. 

Todd Vogel is the Co-Executive Director the International Sustainability Institute. He is also Director of New Urban Learning Advisers, a Seattle-based not-for-profit designed to help colleges and universities and community groups find ways to work together. He was a co-founder and director of the Trinity Institute for Urban Learning and Action, a Kellogg-Foundation-funded workshop-conference that helped more than forty schools and community groups from around the country improve their civic engagement programs. He has worked with schools from across the country, including Columbia University (NY), Wesleyan College (CT), Macalester College (MN) and Arizona State University. He has consulted on community engagement for the Office of Community Partnerships at HUD.

Toddís not-for-profit service in Seattle, WA, includes work as a member of the Social Venture Partnersís Portfolio Grant Committee, which oversees the management of SVPís philanthropic portfolio to 20 King County childhood and environmental organizations. He also has been a member of SVPís Environmental Grants Committee. Todd has served as Board President of Bikeworks, an after-school community cycling organization in Columbia City and as Vice President of Allied Arts of Seattle, the fifty-year-old organization devoted to quality of life in the city.

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Jayson Antonoff
Jayson Antonoff is a sustainable energy expert who has spent the past several years researching Denmarkís remarkable transformation from dependence on foreign energy sources to its current status as an energy exporter. Denmark currently gets 25% of its electricity and heat from non-hydro renewable resources, and the government has recently committed to increasing this to 50%. This compares to less than 2% in the United States. Sustainable energy technologies, such as wind turbines and Combined Heat and Power plants, have become Denmarkís leading export. "I believe that the United States can learn a great deal from Denmarkís experience, from both an energy as well as an economic development perspective. After hearing so many people claim that the European energy experiences were irrelevant to the United States, I simply had to come and find out for myself."

He began his career as a consulting engineer, designing and managing projects to develop energy management systems, SCADA systems, and control systems for hydro projects, and water and wastewater treatment plants. He then went on to co-found Chase Bobko Inc., a software consulting firm, where he established the initial technical vision of the organization, and consulted extensively with clients on their information management needs. He was heavily involved in modeling and analysis of both systems and processes, and is a self professed data junkie who believes in helping people access and understand the information they need to make smart business decisions.

Luis F. Borrero
Luis is an architect who came to Seattle from Colombia at the peak of its dot.com days.† Luis' passion for architecture, technology, and social issues brought him to the Institute where he could apply his holistic and international design perspective to the study of complex environmental, socio-cultural, and economic issues.†

Luis is currently leading a comparative study on best waste management practices between the City of Seattle, King County and similar municipalities in Denmark.†

Prior to joining the Institute, Luis practiced residential and commercial architectural design for Baumgardner Architects, Zimmer Gunsel Frasca, and Steward Silk Architects.† He holds a Masters in Architecture from the University of Washington, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Universidad de los Andes.

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		Along with organizing several speaking events with Jan Gehl, ISI hosted more than 300 people for an enchanting outdoor evening banquet where we heard the ìmaster of public space,î present his ideas on how Seattle could become a world class pedestrian city. For this event, we closed Occidental street and set it up as a cafe venue to show how a street can be transformed.
		We proved that one of Seattle's least interesting and attractive streets could be transformed into a lovely cafe area

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		ISS organized a hands-on workshop with Louise Lundberg, executive director of the Scandinavian Green Roofs Institute (SGRI) in Malmˆ, Sweden. The techniques pioneered at SGRI have demonstrated that successful greenroofs can often be constructed using far simpler techniques and lower construction costs than are normally considered necessary in the United States. After the presentations we toured an installation of a green roof consisting of locally produced modular panels made of sedums and soil on a recycled carpet base.
		Louise Lundberg, at the Scandinavian Green Roof Institute in Malmˆ, Sweeden

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	†	Presentation by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and Svend Auken, Former Minister of Energy and the Environment. Svend Auken, a member of the Danish parliament for over 30 years, was largely responsible for the policies that made Denmark the energy leader it is today. He spoke about the remarkable success that Denmark has achieved in developing their renewable energy resources and gaining energy self sufficiency.
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Patricia in a dress made of  Urban Sustainabilty posters and a hat made from used coffee filters and plastic bags

Patricia Chase, Co-Founder and Consultant

Many people describe Patricia Chase as someone who “thinks out of the box.” She describes herself as someone who doesn’t even know there is a box. More than anything, she loves solving large problems with creative ideas and very smart people. Prior to I-Sustain, Patricia was a founder of Chase Bobko, a pre-eminent software development and consulting company in Seattle. She held various roles in the company for 14 years including CEO and Chairperson of the Board. In 2001, Patricia, her husband Jayson Antonoff, and son Alexander went on a trip around the world with the excellent academic program, Semester at Sea.  It was a life-changing experience for both Patricia and Jayson, who as a result of the experience, shifted their career focus to urban sustainaiblity.  In 2003 they moved to Denmark, where Jayson was a renewable energy researcher and Patricia provided consulting services to the County Execuctive for Aalborg.  She organized the first study tour to Sweden and Denmark, which was so successful, she started International Sustainable Solutions.  In addition to being the president of I-Sustain, Patricia was the founder and the first Executive Director of the International Sustainability Institute (ISI), an NGO headquartered in Seattle.  ISI emerged from an organization called the Urban Environmental Institute.  In 2007, Patricia was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architecture for "creating a uniquely effective program to educate and inspire political and business leaders through international models of sustainable design and development."  That same year, she was selected as a Person of the Year by Seattle Magazine. She was asked by the Mayor of Seattle, Greg Nickels, to serve as an advisor on the 2008 Mayor's Green Building Task Force, a committee she is still active in. She recently was elected to the Board of Directors of the Cascade Bicycle Club, the largest bicycling organization in the United States. In the past, she has served on the Advisory Board for the Kaufmann Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence and as an advisor with Washington CASH, a microlending organization in Washington State.

Jayson Antonoff, Co-Founder
Jayson Antonoff is a sustainable energy expert who has spent several years researching global best practices, including Denmark’s remarkable transformation from dependence on foreign energy sources to its current status as an energy exporter. Denmark currently gets 25% of its electricity and heat from non-hydro renewable resources, and the government has recently committed to increasing this to 50%. "I believe that the United States can learn a great deal from Denmark’s experience, from both an energy as well as an economic development perspective."

He began his career as a consulting engineer, designing energy management systems for complex buildiings and airports.  He then went on to co-found Chase Bobko Inc., a software consulting firm, where he established the initial technical vision of the organization and consulted to clients.  In 2004, he co-founded I-Sustain with Patricia Chase.  Though still co-owner of I-Sustain, he is now the Strategic Advisor for Sustainability Policy and Infrastructure.

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International Sustainable Solutions, or I-Sustain, was started in 2003 while Patricia Chase and Jayson Antonoff were living in Denmark.  At the time, Jayson was researching renewable energy at the leading university in that field, Aalborg University.  Patricia was hired by the County Executive of Aalborg to provide consulting in the public transportation area.  While living in Denmark, both were very impressed by the systematic approach the Danish and Swedish governments and people have to urban development particularly in the areas of energy, mobility, sustainable neighborhood development, waste management, and public spaces.  Over the subsequent years, Patricia has continued with I-Sustain, while Jayson now works for the City of Seattle's Green Building Team as the Strategic Advisor for Sustainable Infrastructure and Policy.

Patricia has spent the last eight years traveling the world and meeting the experts who are responsible for implementing leading sustainability practices.  As a result, she has become increasingly dedicated to understanding the role of cities in improving the well being of its citizens while decreasing impacts on the environment .  In Seattle, she is joined by a cadre of talented, smart and dedicated professionals who serve the organization as researchers and consultants.  In addition, I-Sustain relies on experts all over the globe who provide valuable insights and knowlege for use in our work.

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International Sustainable Solutions (I-Sustain) works with future thinking public, private and NGO leaders to strengthen the livability of cities.  Our clients include a broad spectrum of professionals involved in the planning and development of cities, including elected and appointed public officials and their staff, human services organizations, and architecture, engineering, planning and real estate development firms.  What they have in common is their sincere desire to make the cities where they live and work more sustainable in order to increase the quality of life of citizens while decreasing the negative impacts on the environment.  Our success is based on the following:

- We continually travel the world researching global best practices in our Areas of Focus: Resources, Mobility, Public Amenities and Economic Development;

- We organize international study tours for influential public and private leaders who are in the best positions to adapt best practices they see for themselves to their own cities;

- We provide consulting services, based on existing global best practices, that help cities to become more sustainable themselves, and help them to become role models in the world; 

- During consulting engagements, we are able to incorporate the expertise of those in the world with the most actual hands-on experience.  We rely on the deep relationships we have established in Europe, South and North America, and Australia;

- We only work with clients who are serious about incorporating sustainability as the basic organizing principal in urban development rather than as nice to have add on features.

  We believe that:

- Cities are living organisms that continually change and evolve;

- Sustainable cities consider the well-being of their citizens and the environment first, then figure out the best ways to support them through programs, policies and infrastructure;

- Sustainable cities recognize that efficiencies come from the integration of systems to be more multi-functional, and have the leadership in place to break down the silos that prevent the best solutions from being implemented;

- Cities throughout the world share many of the same problems, issues and opportunities and can and should learn from each other.

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	†	October 2004 Sweden/Denmark Trip Reunion Party hosted by Don Milliken. Patricia and her assistants, Kristie and Rebecca Maxim, were wearing fashions made from trash, including coffee filters, compost and Fritos bags. Our own Visions of Urban Sustainability poster was donned by Patricia though trash it is not†
		Getting trashy is fun! (Photographer: Jim Mueller)

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		We lead groups of private and public urban professionals on study tours of Victoria and Vancouver.  The program includes Dockside Green, Southeast False Creek and Olympic Village, and the University of British Columbia.  If you are interested in joining one of our upcoming study tours, contact Patricia Chase at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for information on dates.  Custom tours for your group gladly organized.
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Rising energy prices and energy inefficiency in traditionally constructed buildings are inevitably leading to increased operational costs. It means less money for investment in new facilities, and that's bad news for the hospital sector which is already under pressure.

And while operational and maintenance costs are rising in hospitals, so are citizens' expectations regarding quality of care. In a move to provide new thinking to tackle these conflicting forces, we are leading our first Northern European Health Design Study Tour to Denmark and Norway.

Our focus will be on district energy, energy-efficient ventilation concepts and methods, greater utilization of daylight, lighting management systems, and both solar and geothermal energy for indoor climate control and producing electricity and hot water.

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	†	Copenhagen, Denmark is widely regarded as being one of the most bicycling oriented cities in the world. In March 2007 we brought Brian Hansen, a strategic transportation planner with the City of Copenhagen, to Seattle, WA for a series of public presentations and meetings with regional bicycling advocates and transportation officials. Copenhagen has long viewed bicycling as not only an important activity for recreation and health, but also a critical component of of the transportation system - more than one-third of the Cityís residentís commute by bicycle each day. Brian was in Seattle to share his experiences in managing the strategic planning of Copenhagenís bicycling infrastructure, and to provide a vision of what Seattle and the region could accomplish as we move forward with the update of our own Master Bicycling Plan.
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