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Sustainable Contra Costa Founders

Marsha Golangco	Marsha Golangco is Principal of Golangco Global, Marsha has been active in the building industry for over 20 years. She consults in environmental Feng Shui designs and sustainable green living principles. Her mission is to promote a sustainable world that works for all. Marsha has used her Sustainable Feng Shui knowledge and wisdom to help her clients in creating an auspicious living environment for a better quality of life. Her services include subdivision development, office buildings, businesses, workplace, and individual homes. Marsha is the author of two books: “The Power of Feng Shui for Builders” and “The Power of Feng Shui for Your Life”. Her upcoming third book is on “The Power of Feng Shui for Sustainable Green Living”. Marsha is also a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA) and a Certified Green Building Professional (CGBP)
Robert Joe	Robert Joe is a Founding Member of Sustainable Contra Costa (SCOCO) and Citizens for a Sustainable Walnut Creek. Graduate of Walnut Creek’s Citizens’ Institute, Member of USGBC-NCC’s Diablo East Bay Branch Organizing Committee and past member of Contra Costa County and City San Ramon’s Green Residential Advisory Task Force. Contributing “Green Talk” columnist and Past Editor of Diablo Valley Chinese Cultural Association’s Newsletter. Robert is a Certified Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA) and a LEED Accredited Professional. Robert and Lily Joe built and reside at Ecohouse, Walnut Creek – world’s first two-story steel and strawbale structure.
Tina KingNeuhausel	Tina King Neuhausel has spent the last nine years of her professional life helping to advance sustainable technologies and encouraging a more sustainable society. Tina has been the Outreach Director for Sustainable San Mateo County since November 2006. Previous to that, she was Owner of Next Generation Energy Network – consulting with governments and businesses on renewable energy projects and policies, and sustainable building and business practices. Tina served as Policy Aide to, then, Santa Clara County Supervisor Jim Beall (current State Assembly Member) focusing energy, work-force development, transportation, and land-use issues. She created Santa Clara County Fuel Cell Advancement Initiative. Tina has eight years executive management experience in the hotel industry. She received her Master of Public Administration degree from San Francisco State University.
Sheila Hill	Sheila Hill is a true Bay Area native, having lived, worked and played here her whole life. She is the Development Manager at the Gardens at Heather Farm in Walnut Creek, whose mission is to educate the community about sustainable gardening practices, and a Contra Costa County Master Gardener. Her passion is inspiring environmental stewardship in children by nurturing their natural curiosity about the world around them and their place in it. She is also a board member of the Mt. Diablo Parent Action Coalition for Education, and enjoys helping local schools develop and maintain recycle programs and habitat gardens.
James Kalin	James Kalin is the Chief Executive Officer of Virtually Green (.com) and a LEED AP. He has been involved with green buildings and sustainable development inside and outside of the USA since the 1970's, when it was known as appropriate technology and soft tech. He held the first major straw bale workshop in Oracle, Arizona in 1989. As an agriculture extension agent with an urban territory, he worked with balcony and roof container gardeners before it was known as green roofs, routinely recommending water conservation and graywater recycling for urban gardens.