Working For Green is dedicated to the belief that every individual can enhance their environment and daily lives through innovations that save money, make money, and provide meaningful work...without relying on government or corporate assistance. We share motivating success video stories and provide timely information showing how people are helping themselves and others during this very challenging economic time. We seek to be an invaluable resource and helping hand to create a sustainable community through success stories that inspire others to become more financially secure.
Susan Neisloss, Founder
Susan founded Working For Green in 2008 based on her desire to help people improve their economic situation through innovations and meaningful work in the green arena. Using her expertise as a former TV reporter and producer, combined with jobs in the public relations and corporate arenas, Susan brings a unique perspective to telling entertaining, emotionally compelling and educational stories about “ordinary” individuals whose ideas and success are benefiting themselves and their community.
Susan’s career includes media manager and spokesperson for a leading healthcare company and director of communications at CBS in Los Angeles. As president of Big Bite, Inc. for more than a decade, Susan provides clients with creative communications tools to enhance their visibility. Susan devotes some of her spare time to help organizations such as Worldwide Orphans Foundation and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
As an aspiring tree hugger, Susan has replaced her incandescent bulbs with CFLs, is taking shorter showers, has stopped idling her car, has begun composting her kitchen scraps, and will soon build a vegetable garden. She admits she has a long way to go but she's excited about adopting other eco-friendly lifestyle choices. Her father was a passionate gardener and animal lover, and Susan credits him for her love of nature and respect for the environment.
Susan has a BA in English from Stanford University and lives in Pacific Palisades, California with Fred and Mia, her two fabulous rescue dogs.
Kristin Finkle, Senior Researcher / Producer
Kristin Finkle brings more than 10 years of production experience to the table with a particular emphasis on web site development, social networking and market research. She offers a fresh and unique perspective in setting up and coordinating shoots and is instrumental in providing hands-on supervision and ideas for capturing creative footage.
Finkle also has international production experience, having journeyed around the globe to document and assist victims of natural disasters, including survivors of 2004’s devastating Indonesian tsunami.
Finkle is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach.
David Carstens, Director of Photography, Editor and Creative Consultant
Dave is an accomplished cameraman who possesses top notch editing and producing skills, who with more than two decades of craftsmanship in Los Angeles, has mastered the art of visual storytelling. Having worked in many facets of the media industry-- from the trenches of news coverage at KCAL-TV to director of photography stints on many independent “film” projects-- Dave brings an enormous breadth of knowledge and experience to all that he does.
Dave has a household filled with animals that are loved, is an avid hiker, and always finds happiness in the simpler things in life. And now, traveling the country with the “Working for Green” team, Dave is shooting stories about American eco-preneurs who are creating jobs and protecting the environment.
Dave holds a BS in Business from Arizona State University.
Sheda Morshed, Researcher & Sustainability Coordinator
Prior to joining WFG in 2009, Sheda spent more than a decade developing content for various public outreach programs in the environmental and academic arenas. Today, she holds a fine-tooth comb to make sure that WFG stays true to its mission of environmental sustainability. Among her passions are volunteering on environmental projects, hiking the Santa Monica Mountains and gardening.
Sheda earned her MA in Integrative Ecology with an emphasis in Environmental Education at the University of Florida.
ADVISORY BOARD
- Michael Depatie - President and CEO, Kimpton Hotels
- Rona Fried - Founder, SustainableBusiness.com
- Carol McClelland - Founder, GreenCareerCentral.com
- John O'Hurley - Co-Founder, Energy-Inc.; Actor
- Glenn Paulson - President, Paulson Cooper Inc.; Professor, UMDNJ School of Public Health
- Geoffrey Shields - President, Dean, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School
- James Sweeney - Professor, Senior Fellow Stanford Institute for Economic Policy; Director, Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency
