Penny Bonda

Penny, FASID, LEED AP works in the field of environmental communications and is a prominent writer and lecturer. She is the founding chair of the US Green Building Council committee for LEED Commercial Interiors and the ASID Sustainable Design Council, and a founding contributor to the REGREEN Residential Remodeling Guidelines. Bonda serves on the ASID Foundation Board of Trustees, Council for Interior Design Accreditation Standards Council, and the USGBC’s LEED training faculty. She was named to the National Register of Peer Professionals for GSA’s Design Excellence Program. Bonda is the recipient of ASID’s 2007 Designer of Distinction award and the 2003 USGBC Leadership Award. She authored Creating Sustainable Interiors, a monograph for NCIDQ and is co-author of a book, Sustainable Commercial Interiors, published by Wiley & Sons.

Tony Gale

For over thirty years Tony Gale has been a prime motivator in the development of environmentally sensitive design at the building and city scale. His reputation in this pursuit promoted him to City Architect for Seattle, Washington in May 1999. Under Mr. Gale’s direction, Seattle has become arguably the Greenest City in the United States. Unique in his abilities, Mr. Gale has worked tirelessly with communities and agencies to develop not only green building criteria but also entire green agendas for the City of Seattle during the largest building boom in the City’s history. As chair of Starbucks 90 partner High Performance Building Team, Tony has lead the development of the company’s Sustainable Building Initiative.

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