Melissa Coleman and Jason Peacock

Melissa Coleman:

Melissa Coleman has written for the New York Times, O Magazine, The Oregonian, Maine, Everett Potter’s Travel Report, and Powells.com, and is a columnist for the Portland Press Herald‘s Dine Out Maine and Maine Home + Design‘s Bright-Minded Home columns. Her first book, This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family’s Heartbreak, was a New York Times bestseller, Indie Next Pick, People’s Pick in People Magazine, and nonfiction finalist for the Maine Literary and New England Book awards. She lives in Maine with her husband and twin daughters.

Jason Peacock:

Jason attained a Health Educator Certificate from Hippocrates Health Institute, which focuses on raw foods and vegetable juices. He is also certified as a Building Scientist from Joseph Lstiburek Ph.D. of Building Science Corp. He has been passionate about health and building for nearly twenty years. After a life threatening illness changed his life he researched what makes humans healthy and found that our immediate environment is one of the largest contributing factors. He strongly believes that it is this generation’s responsibility to change the way we build our immediate environment. Jason is passionate about facilitating this evolution. He comes from a background in custom and production home building. He worked for the largest private homebuilder in Florida as a superintendent and green building advisor. He grew weary of the “green” claim for strictly marketing benefit and enjoys Maine Green Building Supply’s core values to provide truly green products. His current project is building a non-toxic, solar powered community in Wiscasset.