Tracy L. Barnett is a Houston-based writer and bilingual multimedia journalist specializing in sustainable travel, particularly throughout Texas, the Southwestern US and Latin America. Before becoming a travel writer, she worked as an environmental reporter, as an immigration affairs reporter and as a founder and editor of publications for the Latino immigrant community. She has served as travel editor of the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News. As an independent writer, she seeks to integrate the issues she is most knowledgeable and passionate about: sustainability, cultural exchange and travel.
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Vickas Dangayach is a native Houstonian and a graduate of Rice University. He is currently completing his final year of a combined MD/MBA program at Baylor College of Medicine. As the National Student Section President of the American College of Medical Quality, he realized that current quality initiatives in healthcare do not encompass many aspects of sustainable healthcare that contribue to quality care of patients. This realization coupled with his passion for environmental stewardship led him to the sustainable movement in healthcare. He currently is a member of Practice Greenhealth, a leading membership and networking organization for institutions in the healthcare community that have made a commitment to sustainable, eco-friendly practices. It is his hope to discus a myriad of topics related to sustainability in healthcare, and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas to help advance the green cause in healthcare here in Houston. He can be reached at greendocvick@gmail.com.
Nicole Bruder is the founder and owner of Lucy Goo Pet Sitting. Nicole believes that all living creatures should be treated kindly and with respect, as well as the Earth they live on. Wanting to do more to preserve the world in which our wonderful pets live in, Nicole felt a need for an eco-friendly pet business, and thus began Lucy Goo Pet Sitting.Founders
Robert Metzger is the web designer and web service specialist for Houston Green Scene. He is also the owner of OpenAllOver.com. OpenAllOver provides complete digital business solutions including web design, programming, marketing and consulting as well as managing personalized e-mail accounts, custom web design and re-design.
Mona Metzger brings the same passion for mindful living to her business as the owner of Urban Green Clean, a business that provides all-natural cleaning and recycling services to homes and offices, as she does for the community. As co-founder of Houston Green Scene she brings together people of like mind and spirit with local green businesses, organizations and initiatives of worthy causes.
Mona is regularly featured on PBS and makes special appearances on local, Channel 39's Going Green with Yolanda Green. She teams up with a number of organizations and hosts monthly Green Mixers and luncheons to keep the environmentally friendly and socially responsible collaborating.
With more than two decades' experience as an activists, an educator, world traveler and behavioral specialist, she incorporates fresh social media and web development skills along with community organizing and social networking to this project. She holds degrees from the University of Houston.
Her vision of a better world manifests itself by serving on boards of select non-profit organizaitons and working as a volunteer and committee member on many. She has hosted a number of fundraisers including one for KPFT Pacifica Radio. Futhermore, she published the first Houston Green Gudie and is co-founder of Houston's Annual Green Fest.
"Being green," she says, "is about being on a journey of learning, greater awareness and deeper understanding--and then doing what you can, when you can, because you can."