AN INNOVATIVE SUSTAINABILITY+REVITALIZATION CONSULTING NETWORK

Contracting with Barry Patterson & Associates gives your company or municipality access to an international professional sustainability+revitalization network comprised of Associates, advisors, subcontractors and colleagues. This structure allows us to be able to scale up for projects, move quickly, and operate more cost effectively.


If you are interested in acquiring a diversity of insights, getting multiple quotes for a project, or just need one specific and proven skill set in Sustainability+Revitalization, we are able to provide clients with access to a range of professional, proven expertise including:

  • Architecture & Design
  • Biology & Ecology
  • Branding
  • Business Development
  • City Planning
  • Economic Development
  • Energy - efficiency, renewables, retrofits
  • Industrial Design
  • Information Technology
  • Organizational Change
  • Strategy

 

The relationships with our Associates and Network is built on agility, performance, trust, and experience. Contact us today to discuss the possibilities.

 

 

MICHAEL W. SANDS, Ph.D.  With 30+ years of experience in sustainable agriculture, environmental conservation and community based economic development, Mike has worked on a broad range of innovative projects.  He currently serves as Executive Director of the Liberty Prairie Foundation. This small private operating foundation is dedicated to providing leadership in natural resource management and land conservation in northern Illinois.  Current programs are focused on the integration of economically prosperous, ecologically sensitive farms and high quality natural into vibrant protected, working landscapes. He founded and runs the Farm Business Development Center, a business incubator for beginning organic farmers.  Together with a partner land trust, Liberty Prairie Conservancy, the Foundation is developing a land plan and business model for protecting high quality farmland and developing a thriving beginning farmer community to steward and manage that land.


Mike also sits on the founding steering committee of Fresh Taste, a new collaborative effort encouraging diverse local agriculture and healthy eating for all in Chicago and across Illinois.


As Environmental Team Leader at Prairie Crossing in Grayslake, IL Mike provided leadership in the design and management of natural resources and farm lands in an innovative conservation community.  He coordinated the project’s ecological and design consultants and designed the environmental education programs for general public and community members.


Christopher Allen is Owner and Director of Christopher Allen + Associates. Chris has over eighteen years experience in providing strategic/management services to private sector, public agency, and nonprofit clients. Specializing in research and analysis, strategic planning, and sustainable development, he holds a bachelor's degree in International Business from the University of Texas. He has managed projects for a variety of private sector clients as well as the US Department of Energy, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and the United Nations Man and Biosphere Program. His international experience includes work and studies in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Mexico. He also serves on the Board of Directors of A World Institute for Sustainable Humanity and homeWORD. Additionally, he is managing partner of CROMO Developments LLC, a real estate development firm with a membership of the North Texas Chapter of the US Green Building Council. chris@chrisallenassociates.com



John Balsam is Owner and Director of John Balsam Associates, a for-profit consultancy created in 2006 following 20+ years of service to federal, state, and local government agencies and their small business constituencies. The company concentrates its activities in two primary areas—(1) providing market-feasibility research and commercialization-planning services for technology-based businesses and (2) guiding tech-based clients in their efforts to develop competitive proposals to federal and state funding opportunities. Principal, John Balsam, has delivered detailed market-feasibility assessments and commercialization planning on more than 200 projects and emerging technologies, under contract to both federal and state agencies or to the companies themselves. He has also consulted with literally hundreds of clients to improve their applications to the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, the Inventions and Innovation activity, and various state-level funding programs. From 2005 through mid-2009, his involvement contributed to more than $7.6 million in awards through these programs, with another $4.6 million still pending from 2009 proposals.

Prior to starting his own company, John Balsam served as Commercialization Program Manager for the National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, MT (1987-1993); Director of the Montana Entrepreneurship Center at The University of Montana in Missoula, MT (1993-1997); and VP for Business Development for New Horizon Technologies, Inc. in Butte, MT (1997-2006). Balsam earned a market research-focused MBA in 1981 and a BA in Mathematics in 1976. johnb@johnbalsamassociates.com



Jonathan Brown is an experienced executive who has demonstrated competence in building and leading agile teams of highly qualified engineers to consistently and predictably deliver quality software products using defined, repeatable processes to meet management’s and customer’s goals. With 15 years in the software industry focusing on Internet/ eCommerce, he is fluent in the languages of Software Engineering, Government Consulting, and Project Management.  In addition to his e-commerce pedigree, Jonathan can help leverage cloud computing and services oriented architecture to reduce IT budgets and environmental impacts. This includes working to put enterprise applications in the cloud, shutting down server farms so that organizations only use the computer power they need. jonathan.h.brown@gmail.com



Jorge Riano is the founder and owner of GreenBy3, LLC. He started the company in March of 2008 due to his passion for the environment and his desire to make a difference and help others. Riano works with business owners, professionals and homeowners to help them understand that they can make a difference and have a positive impact on our environment by taking simple steps. Understanding how to take these simple steps in building, renovating and operating homes and businesses using sustainable practices is the focus of Riano’s business. jriano@greenby3.com



Sustainability Institute (SI) is an award-winning, nonprofit, 501c(3) organization with a mission of empowering South Carolina communities to transform our homes and workplaces to conserve energy and reduce our overall environmental impact. We accomplish this in three ways: Weatherizing Homes; Green Building Training & Services; and Community Education and Outreach.


The Sustainability Institute brings a unique nonprofit mission, mindset and community-oriented focus to South Carolina's sustainability movement. While most environmental groups focus on land or water conservation, the Institute focuses on empowering South Carolina communities - people - to transform where and how we work and live. The Sustainability Institute's philosophy is about teaching and transferring skills, building expertise and being a cutting-edge resource to develop more people to help lead this movement. http://www.sustainabilityinstitutesc.org/


Renee Patey, is the Green Cities Initiative (GCI) program manger for The Sustainability Institute. GCI is an education and outreach program and service platform of the Institute. As program manger, Renee works with businesses and local governments to help them to understand and integrate sustainability as a strategy for development, overcome the roadblocks associated with going green, and achieve more efficient and environmentally responsible practices. Renee has worked intensely with the City of Charleston to facilitate the development of their comprehensive Sustainability Plan, and with the City of North Charleston on their Energy Efficiency and Conservation Strategy successfully used to apply for over $975,000 of ARRA Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Funds; as well as numerous businesses and organizations to identify and achieve opportunities for sustainable growth and development.