Mr. Rodriguez, is the Vice President of The Waste Masters Environmental Mgt., Inc. He has been involved with the waste management industry for over twenty years.Has served as Manager of Operations, certify by the National Solid Waste Institute and also a member of U.S. Green Building Council.

He was as a board member for the City of Miami waste hauler’s committee.
Promoted the idea to have a council for all the Metro Dade County waste hauler companies to better serve all of our residents, which is called the Dade Waste Hauler Council.

Has also helped implement programs for the industry, Hazard Communication, Fleet Safety, Drug Free Work Place etc.
He is presently involved in helping many institutions of the awareness of keeping a healthier and safe invironment thru Recycling Programs.

Email: rey(@-NOSPAM)rescueearth.org

Olga G. Alvarez, ASID, IIDA, LEED-AP

Olga is the owner/principal of Project Coordinating Services, LLC, (PCS, LLC), a LEED consulting and interior design firm that works on renovations and new construction projects. PCS’s “green” design services focuses on minimizing the environmental impact of materials in interior spaces. She’s been actively involved with the local sustainable community for many years and has held various leadership positions with several local organizations inclusive of the USGBC-SF Chapter as a Board member and it’s past-President.

Gretchen Dudon: Sales Director for Renewable Choice Energy in Florida and Puerto Rico.

Gretchen helps businesses and individuals understand and reduce their environmental impact with clean technology solutions. Gretchen
welcomes the opportunity to forward the dialogue between the green building market and commercial companies interested in doing something right for the environment and for your bottom-line. Gretchen is most passionate about helping our oceans by reducing carbon emissions and driving more clean energy and carbon reduction technology in the US. On her spare time she is enjoying the outdoors in the Rocky Mountains and in Florida.

Hugo Mijares ncarb,aaia, idsa,leed ap, isba
Companies: One D+B Miami; Modulaire Prefab

Hugo Mijares is a Miami-based Venezuelan Architect and Designer principal of One D+B, a young and powerful design studio. His approach is product of the academic and conceptual formation in Latin America and the Caribbean with the practice and technologies acquired in USA. He opens his first Studio in 1996 in Caracas; he has worked for well-known International firms. Currently living and working in Miami, Florida he is focused in the commitment with environmental- friendly building design. Sustainable and regenerative design has been at the core of his planning projects where he goes beyond the ‘greening’ of buildings but regenerate natural ecosystems and weave them into communal built contexts. His award-winning Live the Box Housing project proposes a dense cluster set within a semi-agrarian setting as an antidote to the urban high density buildings.

Hugo Mijares holds an Architecture Degree, a Masters Degree in Architecture, Community Design and Sustainability as well as Post-Professional Studies at USF and Harvard University. Recipient of the Florida Honors and Harvard GSD Honors Student Exchange Program.

As well as Architecture, Mijares was trained in the Industrial Design field, which is evident in his designs. His passion for the Bauhaus philosophy "the unity of all creative arts under the primacy of architecture and for a reconsideration of the crafts by artists “shows itself from development of the building through the assembly of each piece of furniture concluding in the final image of every project.

His studio is currently working in a very eclectic array of projects ranging from a House for a celebrity in Miami, a Fashion Resort in the Caribbean, a product line for a “green” furniture collection and developing housing and structures made out of shipping containers.

Regardless of trends of the passing moment he remains true to the ideals of the Modern Movement and exploring the boundaries of new materials and the capacities of computer based programs.