Kendall Buck is the Executive Vice President of the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of New Hampshire. Kendall is one of a handful of association executives in northern New England who has earned the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).  His responsibilities include overseeing a staff of five and membership of 1,100 throughout nine local home builder associations. He is also the primary lobbyist at state legislature.

Prior to his position with the HB&RA of New Hampshire, Kendall was with the National Association of Home Builders, Washington DC, as a Regional Field Representative, where he provided association management consulting services to state and local builder associations in the northeastern states

His career also included four years as Executive Officer of the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of Maine, where his primary accomplishments included, with the assistance of the National Association of Home Builders, re-establishing and implementing policies and procedures that saw the association re-emerge as a viable trade association in Maine.

Prior to entering the association management profession Kendall was in the residential and commercial construction industry for 17 years during which he held numerous elected leadership positions in the state and local home builder associations.

Since 1996, Rhett Lamb has been the Planning Director for the City of Keene New Hampshire were he performs a broad array of planning and development tasks including the development of comprehensive plans, drafting of zoning ordinances and subdivision/site plan regulations, and review of development proposals.  He is also involved in the implementation of management systems and computer mapping to support planning functions and municipal decision making.  Mr. Lamb has a Masters Degree from Tufts University, Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning where he specialized in land use and water resource protection issues.  Mr. Lamb served on the New Hampshire Governor’s Climate Change Policy Task Force and has been working on the City of Keene’s Climate Initiative since 1998. 

Previously he worked for the Town of Falmouth, Mass. as Assistant Town Planner.  Mr. Lamb is an adjunct professor at Antioch New England Graduate School and is a member of the New Hampshire Planners Association and the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association.

Gary A. Long is the president and chief operating officer of Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH), the state’s largest electric utility, and a regional leader in renewable energy.

A 30-year veteran of the electric industry and a member of Governor Lynch’s Climate Change Policy Taskforce, Gary is a strong believer in the power of collaboration and systemic planning. As PSNH’s top executive, he is focused on identifying practical energy solutions that will help New Hampshire to act broadly, quickly, and intelligently to reduce its energy consumption, and to build the renewable energy resources and advanced infrastructure needed so that the state can transition sustainably to a cleaner energy future.

Under Gary’s leadership, PSNH has expanded its energy-efficiency programs for customers, installed the state’s largest array of solar panels, convened the Wood Energy Advisory Roundtable to advance responsible forestry practices in New Hampshire, and completed an award-winning project that replaced an existing coal-burning boiler with one that burns carbon-neutral wood chips. Today, PSNH has the highest percentage of renewable energy (17 percent) of any major utility in New England.

A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Gary holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Rick Minard is the Vice President for Policy and Programs at the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund in Concord.  He is particularly interested in ensuring that state and federal policies addressing climate change will be fair to low-to-moderate income households.

Minard has served as president of New Hampshire Audubon, co-executive director of the New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies, executive director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, associate director of the Center for the Economy and the Environment at the National Academy of Public Administration, and as Vermont State Planning Director.  He started his career as a journalist, first as a reporter at The Keene Sentinel and subsequently as the editorial page editor at the Valley News.  He received a masters of public administration degree from the Harvard Kennedy School.

Minard was a member of the Adaptation subcommittee of the Climate Change Action Plan effort. He lives in Bow.

Joanne Morin is the Director of the NH Office of Energy and Planning.   In this capacity, she is responsible for many initiatives to promote cleaner energy sources, energy efficiency, and energy conservation in the transportation, power generation, commercial, industrial and residential sectors.  She recently facilitated the development of the New Hampshire Climate Action Plan involving a 29-member Task Force and over 125 stakeholders. For the past four years, she has served as the New Hampshire representative on the staff working group for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (known as RGGI), a “cap and trade” program for limiting carbon dioxide emissions from major electric power plants in 10 eastern states. She helped develop legislation for a renewable portfolio standard for New Hampshire which was passed in the summer of 2008 and she serves on the Board of Directors for "The Climate Registry".  Her previous experience includes twelve years as an environmental consultant and four years as a Corporate Environmental Manager for The Timberland Company.  Her previous environmental work ranged from Superfund litigation to monitoring overseas labor and environmental conditions.

Chris Skoglund is an Energy and Transportation Analyst for the NH Department of Environmental Services (http://des.nh.gov). Over the course of 2008, he served as the staff coordinator for Governor Lynch's Climate Change Policy Task Force, which was charged with developing greenhouse gas reduction targets for the New Hampshire and a Climate Action Plan to achieve those goals. In addition to this work, Chris represents DES during transportation planning, working with the DOT and the Seacoast MPOs.

Prior to working at DES, Chris was actively engaged in efforts that targeted reductions in greenhouse gas reductions through community-based behavior change campaigns as well as innovative building design projects. Chris also served as the NH Carbon Challenge Program Manager in its early formative years, providing essential guidance on the framework, community building, and programmatic vision of the Carbon Challenge.

Before attending UNH graduate school, he was engaged in education for almost a decade as a naturalist at outdoor environmental schools on both coasts and in traditional classroom settings with middle and high school students.

Steve Walker is President and Chief Executive Officer of New England Wood Pellet LLC, a company he founded in 1992.  NEWP has grown to be the largest manufacturer and distributor of wood pellet fuel in the northeastern US with facilities in three states.  A self taught engineer and entrepreneur, Steve is recognized as an international leader in the wood pellet sector.  Many of his manufacturing innovations have been widely adopted by the industry.  Mr. Walker is a tireless promoter of the use of pellet fuels in residential, commercial and industrial applications, and has served on numerous industry committees and boards.