Board of Directors

Daniela is the Oregon state coordinator with the Citizens’ Climate Lobby and a former green infrastructure coordinator at the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. Daniela has experience with community outreach, environmental program management, climate policy and advocacy, lobbying, and municipal financing and budgeting of green infrastructure. She grew up on the Willamette and believes fervently that love of nature, clean air, and the land can bind us all in common purpose.

Jim has served as a city planner and manager, salmon recovery non-profit executive director, and private planning consultant. Most recently, he has concentrated on planning renewable energy projects (primarily for Tribes) and long range multi-use bicycle/pedestrian trails. He was instrumental in establishing the Tualatin River National Wildlife, and has served as a board member and officer of Portland Audubon, the Wetlands Conservancy, and other non-profits.

Mike is a landscape architect and founder of GreenWorks. He is a LEED-accredited professional and member of the U.S. Green Building Council. Mike’s primary professional interest is in creating livable, sustainable communities that balance economic, ecological and social needs. Toward that end, Mike leads a diverse array of planning and design projects that integrate urban ecology and green development, on behalf of city and private corporate clients.

Tom is a registered landscape architect and a retired environmental specialist for the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services. Liptan has assisted numerous municipalities, developers, consultants, multi-state corporations and government agencies with acceptance of ecoroofs and other landscape approaches used for stormwater management and healthy city development. His leadership on ecoroofs and green streets has also had an international impact. He has lectured and published widely, and is the author of the 2017 book Sustainable Stormwater Management.