Miriam Landman is an environmental advisor, writer, editor, and educator. She has expertise in the areas of green building and green living. Miriam has been writing and working in the environmental field for almost twenty years, often focused on issues related to sustainable development and the built environment. She brings a broad set of skills, interests, and knowledge to her work.

Her green building work facilitates the use of healthy and sustainable practices in the planning, design, renovation, construction, operation, and maintenance of homes, buildings, and developments. She writes and develops a variety of informational resources, gives educational/training workshops, and offers project consultations.

Her past clients include: Compendia, Ecobanca, the U.S. Green Building Council's Northern California Chapter, Global Green USA, Enterprise Community Partners, Simon & Associates, Green Fusion Design Center, Ewald Tajbaksh Architecture, and Healthy Home Plans.  Miriam also does occasional work for Google, and for Wild Blue organic farm.

Prior to founding M. Landman Communications & Consulting, Miriam was senior associate with Simon & Associates Green Building Consultants, and earlier in her career she worked as a reporter and producer for public radio's Living on Earth program. She has also worked with Global Green USA, Mostue & Associates Architects, the Resource Renewal Institute, and ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability.

Miriam is a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Accredited Professional and has consulted on many LEED certified projects, as well as other green residential, commercial, and institutional projects. (See the GREEN BUILDING EXPERIENCE, PAST CONSULTING PROJECTS, and GREEN BUILDING SERVICES pages for more information.) She is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and has been involved with the council's Northern California and Redwood Empire Chapters.

She was a contributing author for the book Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing, edited by Global Green USA (Island Press, 2007). Her recent articles and commentaries have been published in the San Francisco Chronicle, Natural Home magazine, Environmental Design + Construction, and Urban Land's GreenTech magazine, and on NPR's Living on Earth program, the Environmental News Network (ENN.com), and KQED.org.

Miriam also offers writing, editing, proofreading, and research services to assist companies, organizations, and agencies with their publications. Entities that have featured her writing in their publications include the National Building Museum, Global Green USA, the City and County of San Francisco's Department of the Environment, the State of California's Integrated Waste Management Board, and the State of Massachusetts' Division of Capital Planning. (Go to the PUBLICATIONS page for a full listing along with links to Miriam's published works.)

In addition, she presents workshops and lectures on a variety of environmental topics and has taught university classes. (See the PUBLIC SPEAKING & TEACHING EXPERIENCE page for more information.)

Miriam has a master's degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University in Boston, and she received a bachelor's degree (with Honors) in Community Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

More information on Miriam's professional experience is provided on her résumé. For information on Miriam's approach, values, and sources of inspiration, go to the APPROACH page. To see some of the praise that she has received from her clients and colleagues, go to the TESTIMONIALS page.

Some lesser-known facts about Miriam are that she is semi-fluent in Spanish; she worked as a part-time professional cellist in her late teens; she has worked on a horse farm, goat farm, and organic vegetable farm; and she used to own a motorcycle instead of a car. Formerly an urbanite, she now lives in the rural northern outskirts of the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Jeff, and their dog and cat.