About Us
What is Sustainable Industries?
Sustainable Industries is an independent media company producing this web site, an award-winning bimonthly magazine, industry newsletters, a Webinar and podcast series, and the Sustainable Industries Economic Forums. Serving business and thought leaders on the West Coast and beyond, Sustainable Industries is a multi-media platform that connects the dots between the environmental and social components of regional economies.
The concept for Sustainable Industries was hatched in Portland in the summer of 2002 by business journalist Brian Back and Nik Blosser, president of Celilo Group Media. The first two years of monthly issues, which carried the masthead Sustainable Industries Journal Northwest (that’s 11 syllables, mind you), were produced in a newsletter style, 16 pages long, with both color and black-and-white pages.
Over the next several years, the team of stakeholders at Sustainable Industries worked exceptionally hard to create an innovative media company that today serves as the only one of its kind: a fiercely independent, regionally focused, advertorial-free, business-to-business media company that reaches far beyond "green" to provide news, tools and analysis on the greatest economic development opportunities of our lifetime. Sustainable Industries has emerged as a highly trusted voice and vital catalyst for business on the West Coast and beyond.
While the entire spectrum of media scramble to seize the “green” opportunity, Sustainable Industries is in a unique position to take the conversation further.
Meet Sustainable Industries' staff and regular contributors.
- Brian Back - Founder & President, San Francisco
- Amy Hillman - Business Team Director, Portland
- Christina Weber - Senior Account Executive, Bay Area
- Brandon Madsen - Account Executive, Seattle
- George Velarde - Account Executive, California
Editorial Team
- Charles Redell - Web Editor, Seattle
- Ben Stoddard - Production Manager, New York
- Sara Stroud - Editorial Project Manager, Bay Area
