Meet Our Team

Daniel Morrison — Senior Web Producer

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Daniel Morrison has built and remodeled houses in Montana, New Mexico, Texas, Tennessee, Maine, and Massachusetts.

After a bad day on an icy roof, he found an issue of Fine Homebuilding in his mailbox. The magazine had an ad looking for an assistant editor; a month later he was clacking away on a keyboard in a cubicle.

After six years at Fine Homebuilding magazine, Dan was asked to jump in to building GreenBuildingAdvisor.com. He is senior web producer for both Green Building Advisor and FineHomebuilding.com.

Martin Holladay — Senior Editor

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Senior editor Martin Holladay has worked as a roofer, remodeler, builder, and plumbing wholesale counterperson. He built his first passive solar house in northern Vermont in 1974, and has lived off the grid since 1975. In 1980, Holladay bought his first photovoltaic(PV) Generation of electricity directly from sunlight. A photovoltaic cell has no moving parts; electrons are energized by sunlight and result in current flow. module, which is still producing electricity after 29 years of service.

Peter Yost — Technical Director

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Peter Yost is the Director of Residential Services for BuildingGreen, LLC in Brattleboro, Vermont. He has been building, researching, teaching, writing, and consulting on high-performance homes for more than 20 years. His expertise stretches from construction waste management and advanced framingHouse-framing techniques in which lumber use is optimized, saving material and improving the energy performance of the building envelope. to energy efficiency and building durability.

Rob Wotzak — Web Producer

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Throughout his early professional life, Rob delved into just about every craft you could imagine. His first real job was as a welder and metal finisher in a fine art foundry. Since then he has restored antiques, maintained private gardens, upholstered furniture, and forged decorative ironwork. There was a stretch where Rob actually got to use his psychology degree, as a farm program coordinator at Green Chimneys, a school and residential treatment center that incorporates interaction with animals into their educational and therapeutic programs.

Scott Gibson — Contributing Writer

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Scott Gibson is a former editor at Fine Homebuilding magazine, where he is still a contributing writer.

Scott is the co-author with David Johnston of Green from the Ground Up, published by The Taunton Press in 2008, and is at work on a book about net-zero energyProducing as much energy on an annual basis as one consumes on site, usually with renewable energy sources such as photovoltaics or small-scale wind turbines. houses to be published next year.

Steve Baczek — Contributing Architect

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Steven Baczek, AIA, is a registered architect with over 18 years of construction industry experience. Steve is the architect responsible for all of the details in the GreenBuildingAdvisor.com library.