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Board

Jane Bender, President
Jane served on the Santa Rosa City Council for ten years, including service as mayor from 2004-2006. While in office, she championed the greenhouse gas emission targets, among other climate protection initiatives. She also was co-director of ReLeaf for thirteen years, a non-profit organization that advocates for the planting of trees.

Chris CallTreasurer
Chris is CEO of the Sonoma County Grange Credit Union. A CPA with 30 years experience in the areas of finance and accounting, Chris also owns and operates his own small business - Anytime Fitness of Windsor.  In addition, he holds a real estate license and is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Jim McGreen, Secretary
Jim has a long history of entrepreneurial experience. He was Chairman and CEO of dLoo, a software development company; Co-Founder, President and CEO of ZAP Power Systems, maker of electric vehicles; board member of Farm9, an internet security company; and board member of LITE Initiatives, the parent to CarLite and Community Bikes. He has been to Burning Man 16 times.

Lawrence Jaffe
Lawrence lives in Sebastopol with his wife and two daughters and practices law in Santa Rosa. He formerly served on the Board of the Santa Rosa Downtown Market and as an aide to Pat Wiggins when she was in the Assembly. He also operated Left Field Farm. He is the Grange Master of the Sebastopol Grange and serves on the Sonoma County Community Development Commission.

 

Larry Robinson
Larry served twelve years on the Sebastopol City Council. As co-chair of the city’s Energy Committee, he helped bring Sebastopol to the forefront on solar power. He was also a leader in affordable housing and green buildings while on the council. He is a retired psychotherapist and a published poet.

 

Dick Dowd, Vice President
Dick was vice president of Pinnacle Homes and has been a member of the Santa Rosa Board of Public Utilities since 1994. He has been a member of the Steering Committee of Sonoma Clean Power project since 2010. He has served as president of the North Coast Builders Exchange and the Sonoma County Alliance. He was inducted into the North Coast Builders Exchange Construction Hall of Fame in 2002.

Kathy Goodacre, First Past President
Kathy Goodacre has over 20 years experience as a marketing and fundraising executive for business, government and non-profit organizations. As a former non-profit executive and now consultant, she developed strategy and execution of multi-million dollar capital campaigns, endowment campaigns, annual giving programs, and fundraising events. Kathy produced produced the Climate All Stars Conference in 2007 and 2008.

Martha Kowalick
Martha’s background is in organizing, planning, and fundraising on local, regional, and national levels. Trained by the United Farm Workers, she has worked on health, security, and women’s issues. She is one of the founding partners of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.

Carl Mears
Carl is a Senior Scientist with Remote Sensing Systems in Santa Rosa, where he specializes in satellite-measured temperature data. Carl has served as a contributing author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s foremost authority on global warming science. He is a member two international working groups, the Global Climate Observing System Working Group on Atmospheric Reference Observations, and the WCRP Stratospheric Trends Working Group.

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