About Our Members
Joel Landau - Co-Chair of the Community Sustainability Council
Landau, general manager of Deep Roots Market, has more than 20 years experience managing natural food stores and promoting sustainability particularly in the areas of agricultural activities and business practices. His interests are in establishing practices that reduce environmental degradation, promote healthy business activity and conserve resources for future generations. Landau was a founding officer of Citizens for Waste Reduction and Recycling in Greensboro and helped lead the effort to make Greensboro a "Cool City" by lobbying City Council to adopt the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. He is also a member of the Greensboro Planning Board and is on the Executive Committee of the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress.
Bob Powell - Co-Chair of the Community Sustainability Council
Powell is an assistant professor in the architectural engineering program at NC A&T State University as well as a practicing architect, building contractor, affordable housing developer and energy consultant. He is also part of the research faculty of the Center for Energy Research and Technology. Powell's interests include sustainable development, participatory design methods and community building. These interests have led to his involvement in the revitalization of Greensboro's Eastside Park neighborhood, neighborhood planning efforts using the Participatory Design Method, conducting an Environmental Design Charrette as part of national AIA program, coordinating the NC Sustainable Design Competition, and the design and construction of Mary's House.
Carolyn Allen
Allen is president of the board of the Piedmont Land Conservancy and former board member of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina and Audubon North Carolina. Allen was also an at-large member of the Greensboro City Council from 1989-1993 and mayor of the City from 1993-1999. She believes that there is no greater challenge facing our society today than reducing the use of fossil fuels across the United States and making communities more energy efficient. To do this, she says all residents must modify their energy use and focus on conservation of all resources.
Tom A. Clary
Clary has extensive public and private sector work experience and academic background in land use planning, city and regional planning, environmental and energy studies, economic development, urban and regional economies, and other related areas. He is a life member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association, and is the former CEO of a consulting firm specializing in the areas listed above. Clary says the greatest payoff toward sustainability is in the integration of land use, transportation, and environmental planning and implementation, and of course, implementation of Greensboro's commitment to the US Conference of Mayors Agreement on Climate Protection.
Art Davis III
Davis is a City of Greensboro retiree with nearly 37 years of experience as planning research manager. Currently, he is a lecturer at NC A&T State University and has also taught at Guilford College. Davis is the co-chair of the Greensboro Neighborhood Congress, a member of the Building Stronger Neighborhood Grants Committee and the Ole Asheboro Neighborhood Association. Additional community activities include United Way Advisory Council, Old North State Boy Scouts Eagle Council, Hayes Taylor YMCA Board and Strategic Planning Committee, GTCC Greensboro Advisory Council, Housing Greensboro Board, Nat Greene Sertoma Board and the Metro YMCA Endowment Development Committee. He has also been appointed by the Guilford County Commissioners to the Board of Equalization and Review.
Tom Duckwall
Duckwall has extensive business and nonprofit experience with environmental / conservation groups with an interest in water resources. A recent retiree, Duckwall's goal is to help Greensboro with its efforts to minimize natural resource consumption while also providing residents with needed services.
Debbie Leiner Fields
Fields, a pediatrician since 1979, is affiliated with Piedmont Pediatrics. Her focus is on children's environmental health and promotes this within the NC Pediatric Society, among her Greensboro colleagues, and in her own neighborhood. Field has recently cut her household energy consumption by more than 50 percent through conservation alone, to a level that is well below that of the average American household. She believes that children need a healthy world in which to grow into healthy, productive adults, and she is proud that Greensboro is on a path to a sustainable, healthy future.
Terri Hancock
Hancock, CSC's Chamber of Commerce representative, is a category management administrator with VF Jeanswear. She also serves on the VF Jeanswear Green Task Force and recently worked with Action Greensboro and Sustainable Greensboro on the Earth Day @ Center City. In July 2009, Hancock completed a business certification in sustainable business practices from the University of Vermont’s Institute for Global Sustainability. She has been an active community volunteer since moving to Greensboro in 1996. Her interests in sustainability and environmental causes began in the 70s with her first organic garden.
Eric Hoekstra
Hoekstra is a graduate of UNCG and has lived in Greensboro more than 30 years. He has worked in the area of information technology and his interest in sustainabililty comes from his mother. Hoekstra is active in a neighborhood community group, his church's environmental stewardship group, and Environmental Stewardship Greensboro. He has reinsulated his home, installed double-glazed windows and CFLs throughout the house, recycles, composts yard waste, uses cloth grocery bags, and shops the local farmers' markets.
Bob Kollar
Kollar retired from the Guilford County Public School system after 41 years as a teacher and has been active in various environmental causes since the 1970s. He is active with the Piedmont Land Conservancy, holds membership in three additional environmental groups, and was recently appointed to the county's Environmental Review Board. Kollar also volunteered to help rebuild homes in Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Marlene Sanford
Sanford is president of the Triad Real Estate & Building Industry Coalition (TREBIC) and is responsible for its green building issues. A Triad native, Sanford has 24 years experience in public policy, primarily for real estate and land development in many jurisdictions in both North Carolina and Florida. She has been active in many community initiatives and boards, nonprofit service boards and trade organizations, and has graduated from local and regional leadership programs.
Bob Skenes
Skenes was born, raised and educated in Greensboro, as were his parents and grandparents. He has spent 10 years in commercial banking, 15 years in finance and real estate development, and 20 years as a private investor. His background brings real world experience to CSC discussions on land use and water resources. One of his investments is a self-service car wash, which has made him a "somewhat reluctant expert on solid waste." Skenes' economics background is also valuable in addressing the 'cost factor' in "decisions we make as a society."
Valerie Vickers
Vickers teaches biology and Earth / environmental science at the Early / Middle College at Bennett and science education at UNCG. In 35 years of public and private education, she and her students have created outdoor classrooms, nature trails, butterfly and permaculture gardens, and have worked with sustainable projects, Big Sweep, Business Recycling, and the NC Soil and Water Conservation District, Envirothon. She coordinated the Environmental Committee at Greensboro Day School for 18 years and has also traveled to Uganda with the NC Zoo’s UNITE Program to work with conservation education there. In addition, she earned North Carolina’s Environmental Certification and has her PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education: Curriculum and Teaching. Her dissertation was "An Exploration of Ecological Identity: Education to Restore the Human / Earth Relationship." She views natural systems as models for sustainability.
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