The Buildings, Infrastructure, and Housing Working Group will evaluate and recommend short- and long-term mitigation strategies to reduce gross and net annual greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, infrastructure, and housing, as well as evaluate and recommend short- and long-term strategies and actions for adaptation and resiliency to climate change. For meeting details, agendas, minutes, and handouts, please visit our meeting calendar and search for this working group.

Working Group Members

Co-chairs

  • Michael Stoddard, Executive Director, Efficiency Maine
  • Ellen Belknap, Senior Principal, SMRT Architects & Engineers

Members

Sonia Barrantes, Ripcord Engineering

Andrew Barrowman, Bangor Natural Gas Company 

Dale Basher, Downeast Community Partners

Naomi Beal, passivehausMaine 

Richard Bradstreet, Maine State Legislature

Laney Brown, Avangrid 

Scott Brown, Maine Department of Education 

Dan Burgess, Governor's Energy Office 

Alethea Cariddi, UNE/Green Campus Consortium

Heather Chandler, Green & Healthy Maine

Elaine Clark, Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services 

Glenn Curry, Maine State Legislature

Francis Eanes, Maine Labor Climate Council, AFL

Gary Fearon, Penobscot Nation Housing Department 

Steve Hudson, Preti Flaherty 

Christopher Kessler, Maine State Legislature 

Safiya Khalid, Community Organizing Alliance 

Daniel Kleban, Maine Beer Company 

Sharon Klein, University of Maine 

Grayson Lookner, Maine State Legislature 

Jeff Marks, ClimateWork Maine 

Matt Marks, Cornerstone Government Affairs 

Steven McDermott, Genesis Fund

Don McGilvery, MaineHousing 

Arthur Mingo, Maine State Legislature

Deborah Paredes, Maine Environmental Education Association / The Nature Conservancy

Rozanna Patane, Town of York 

Greg Payne, Governor's Office of Policy Innovation & the Future 

Eben Perkins, Competitive Energy Systems 

Matthew Pitzer, MEREDA 

Todd Rothstein, Avesta Housing 

Jason Shedlock, Laborers' International Union 

Pat Stanton, E4TheFuture 

Patrick Strauch, Maine Forest Products Council 

Jesse Thompson, Kaplan Thompson Architects 

Tom Twist, Bates College 

Ania Wright, Sierra Club Maine