Presenters:

Morgan Brown, President, Whole Water Systems

John Grove, Principal Biologist, Whole Water Systems

Jennifer Barnes, Designer/Project Manager, Whole Water Systems

Water's essential. Water's limited. Water's wasted. If we know how to design sustainable water systems – and we do – how come most engineering still relies on spectacularly expensive, inefficient and unsustainable technology? Using Comedy Central’s Colbert Report as inspiration, our troupe will take an irreverent, satirical look at Big Engineering’s centralized water treatment – while juxtaposing it to the new sustainable paradigm of Biomimicry with decentralized water treatment and reuse. Particular focus and project examples will include decentralized wastewater solutions utilizing natural systems such as constructed wetlands for projects interested in meeting the Living Building Challenge imperatives, earning LEED water credits, or just providing triple bottom line benefits.  For the interactive portion of our session, the troupe will involve the audience in activities that cover technical aspects of decentralized water treatment/reuse as applicable to LBC projects and the new Water Petal.

Session Format:  BREAKOUT SESSION

Presenter Bios

Morgan Brown

Morgan Brown is President of Whole Water Systems, LLC. Morgan is an electrical engineer, LEED AP and NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer. He garnered a variety of high tech management experience in Europe, Seattle and Silicon Valley prior to launching Whole Water Systems with decentralized water treatment pioneers John Grove and Patrick Fitzgerald. His particular interest is working with progressive developers delivering superior products with sustainable water and energy solutions.

John Grove

John Grove is the Principal Biologist for Whole Water Systems. John is an environmental biologist and entrepreneur with 20 years experience pioneering constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment. He is the patent holder of two wetland design adaptations which maximize treatment and resource recovery. Known for his effective and passionate presentations, John has lectured at both engineering and environmental symposia, including C.U. Boulder, C.S.U Fort Collins, the Colorado School of Mines, the Sun Valley Sustainability Conference and the Idaho Green Expo.

Jennifer Barnes

Jennifer is a deep green architect as well as a sustainability and regenerative design consultant with Whole Water Systems. She has 20 years of experience in the design profession with an emphasis on integrating built environments with site patterns and natural systems. She approaches her work as a systems thinker, with a vision to create projects that give back more than they consume – helping to restore ecosystems and connect people with place. Jennifer is a LEED AP and serves on the steering committee for the Cascadia Green Building Council.