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Yahya E. B. Henry began his career in real estate as a private investor while serving in the United States Navy. After 8.5 years of service, he transitioned into commercial real estate brokerage and land development with Mid-Atlantic Commercial Real Estate. Yahya currently serves as founder and Director of Business Development for The Aribra Group, LLC a developer and think tank that promotes best practices in the built environment. He also serves as Community Manager for Aribra.com. Yahya is an entrepreneur, traveler and avid blogger, and has built his career around his passions for technology, people, the planet and real estate. He is active in his community and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Atlanta. He was previously Membership Committee Chair and a founding member for the Young Leaders Group and apart of the Executive Committee for ULI Hampton Roads. Yahya has also been active in the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) Hampton Roads Regional Group, the Smart Growth Network, International Council of Shopping Centers and the Second Harvest Food Bank. You can follow Yahya on Twitter @YahyaHenry.
Topics: sustainability, real estate, social media, infill
Posts by Yahya:
- Community Redevelopment Through Small-Scale Infill Development
- Heavy Metal: Why Mercury-Free Environments Are Important
- We're not Connected
- Reset Button: Views from a Cautious Optimist
- Happy Holidays from Aribra.com!
- Local Motion: Land Use & Reaction to 40,000 New Residents
- Why Walkable Development is Important; It Can Cost You
- It's Our Time: Blog Action Day
- Under Construction: Diversity in Commercial Real Estate
- The Brand Aribra: Backstage
- Regionalism: Why some people just don’t get it
- The transition is complete and we’re off!
- Ready, Fire, Aim: The Backdrop
Christi Bowler Elflein, AICP, has fifteen years of experience in urban planning and is President of NuVisions, a consulting firm specializing in visioning exercises for sustainable urban development. She holds a Master’s of City Planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s of Science in Social Sciences from Florida State University. As a city planner, Christi has worked for such cities as Atlanta, Georgia, Vail, Colorado, and Newport News, Virginia. In 2005, after five years of practice for the community planning firm Glatting Jackson in Orlando, she began her own planning consulting business, NuVisions, which is now based in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. Christi has been published in publications such as the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. She received the Georgia Planning Association’s Planning Document of the Year Award in 2000 for her work on the Cheshire Bridge Road Corridor Study, and she has been a guest speaker on new urbanism for a number of local civic groups including Rotary clubs and local AIA and ULI chapters. Christi is an active member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) where she is a founding member and former Regional Director of the CNU Hampton Roads Regional Group, a founding member and former Regional Director of the CNU Orlando Regional Group, and a former member of the organizing committee for the CNU Florida Chapter.
Topics: urbanism, TND, community design
Posts by Christi:
- Make a Difference by Biking to Work
- A Not So Obvious Urbanistic Perspective on Haiti
- Natural Resource Mismanagement Connected to Loss of Life in Haiti
- The Design of Place
- Living Sustainably, Luxuriously, and Affordably
Timothy Hughes, LEED AP is of counsel to the firm of Bean, Kinney & Korman. His practice focuses on representing construction, design professional and development industry clients in litigation, contract, business and corporate transactional matters. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and frequent speaker and writer on sustainable design, construction, and risk management related issues. A graduate of Yale University and the Marshall Wythe School of Law at William and Mary, Tim is “AV” rated by Martindale Hubbell. Tim is the former Chair of the Construction Law and Public Contracts Section of the Virginia State Bar and is and is the lead editor for the Virginia Real Estate, Land Use and Construction Law Blog. You can follow Tim on twitter @vaconstruction.
Topics: green building, construction, LEED, sustainable design
Posts by Tim:
- Challenges to LEED Certifications: Standing, Procedure, Wiggle Room and Money
- The KISS Principle and Sustainability
- Crisis, Sustainability, Values and "American Exceptionalism"
- Green, Sustainability and the Need for Third Party Validation
- New York Times, LEED and GSA: The Ghost of LEED Past?
- LEEDing to Unintended Consequences - The Ghost of LEED Future
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- Fear Trumps Hope?
- "Green" Will Never Scale
- Sustainability and the Millennial Generation
- Progress, Not Perfection
- Building Green...The Moral Imperative
- Why We Will Save The World
- Inspiration and Community in Web 2.0
Christopher G. Hill is a construction lawyer at the Law Office of Christopher G. Hill, PC in Glen Allen, Virginia, LEED AP, and member of Virginia’s Legal Elite in Construction Law. He specializes in mechanic’s liens, occupational safety issues, contract consulting and review and general risk management for all levels of construction professionals from contractors to subcontractors to material men. Chris is also the author of the blog Construction Law Musings where he discusses sustainable building and other construction related topics. You can follow Chris @constructionlaw.
Topics: mechanics liens, construction law, LEED, green building
Posts by Chris:
- Tempered Optimism is Key to a Sustainable Green Infrastructure
- What Owners Look for in Green Building and Why Contractors Should Care
- Sustainability Takes Hold
- Views of Thoughtful Sustainability
- Risks for a Sustainable Future (or How Eeyore Would See Green Construction)
- Energy and Broken Windows
- Why Build Green in Virginia? It Just Makes Sense


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