Marge is the Executive Vice President of Slipstream, a non-profit that advances deep energy savings in buildings through technical and behavioral innovation, programs and education. Marge was the 2015 Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Board of Directors. Marge also chairs the buildings working group for Dane County, Wisconsin’s climate action plan team, and serves on USGBC-IL’s Carbon Drawdown Advisory Committee. Marge is a proud member of the Board of Directors for the New Buildings Institute. Marge inherited her love of nature from generations of outdoorswomen, and her commitment to social justice from her working class childhood in an American Rust Belt city. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College. Marge is a birder, an amateur naturalist, and a storyteller. Her personal mantra is Tony Juniper’s quote: “it’s too late for pessimism.”