About CitiesGoGreen
CitiesGoGreen exists to help answer the question, How can local governments become sustainable as quickly and effectively as possible? Why local governments? Cities are small enough to change rapidly and big enough to matter. They are laboratories for new policies and approaches. Cities and their infrastructures generate the majority of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, and use the most water, food and energy. Most communities have great leverage on what happens through the building code, planning and ability to communicate with citizens. They decide how development is shaped, influencing travel patterns, land use and so on. Local governments can provide the vision and leadership for needed change. We’re here to help make that change happen by sharing the best ideas and examples. To do that, we need to hear from you – your struggles and your successes. How is your community advancing the leading edge of sustainability to make a difference? If you have a story, we want to know about it. If you have a product or a company that can advance our mission, feel free to inquire about being a sponsor. It could work out well all around.
Judith Sult
Publisher
Publisher Judith Sult co-founded CitiesGoGreen with Daimon Sweeney. Although Daimon no longer is directly involved with CitiesGoGreen, he has created a firm foundation for its future. Judith became environmentally active when she co-founded a bluegrass festival that donated thousands of dollars to reforest a burned area and send local fifth graders to an environmental camp. She co-founded and published Friends of Mountain Music magazine, also serving as the publication’s marketing arm; and was marketing and sales manager for Continuity Publishing. She also founded Here’s How Marketing & Research and has served as a consultant for numerous national publications. She has a Masters Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.
Janet Ward
Blog Editor
Janet Ward edits and writes. She is the Media Relations Manager for the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management. In her past lives, she has edited a local government magazine, practiced law and worked as a sportswriter. She lives in Atlanta, where she tends a vegetable garden, composts, keeps a bucket in the shower, takes mass transit and still can’t manage to reduce her carbon footprint because of her old, drafty house.
Karen Letterman
Advertising Manager
Karen Letterman, Advertising Manager, has been interested in government and politics since college, where she majored in Political Science and did an internship in the New York state legislature. In her professional life, she spent many years as an Advertising Manager for a local government magazine. In her personal life, she has served as a board member on the Democratic Town Committee in Fairfield, Conn.
Stephanie Hopkinson
Creative Director
Creative Director Stephanie Hopkinson has been designing and creating publications for the past 25 years. During that time, she earned her Masters in Political Science/Environmental Studies, with an emphasis on public policy and administration, explored art and nature, and spent many hours troubleshooting co-workers’ computer problems. Stephanie is co-owner of Wild Pacific Seafood, a family business selling troll-caught canned albacore. Her parents fish for albacore each summer and deliver it to the cannery they built. Stephanie gets to do the marketing and selling all year ’round. Visit www.WildPacificSeafood.com to learn more about their products and the troll-caught albacore industry.
