Who We Are

Jon R. Dougal serves as the Secretary on GreenMotion’s Board of Directors. Jon is known internationally as an expert writer, speaker, tradeshow director, and publisher on sustainable, environmental and business development technologies. Jon is the Founder, Editor, and Publisher of several newsletters focused on sustainability including: www.GreenSage.com; Building Industry Professionals for Environmental Responsibility, Green InSight from www.GreenMotion.org; these publications reach 300k subscribers in 21 countries. Dedicated to “Green Building, Natural Products, and Sustainable Living” these eNewsLetters cover all emerging topics, technologies, processes, and techniques needed by both professionals, government officials, agriculturalists, biofuel producers, and home owners in addressing climate change.

Jon has two decades of extensive hands-on experience with various green building materials and technologies, which makes his position with the Board of Directors of GreenMotion and the US Green Real Estate Council most important.  His work since the 1990’s has allowed him to work with industry, commercial real estate, and private home owners to select and use the best-of-the-best green products to conserve energy, reduce green –house emissions, utilize renewable materials for construction, environmentally sensitive storage, handling, and processing of hazardous wastes materials, and identify off -grid power sources through selected waste-to-energy systems.

Through his extensive business connections, Chamber of Commerce affiliations, and elected official ties throughout California, Jon is a major contributor to California becoming a World leader in environmental stewardship. Such work includes, but is not limited to the “California Anti -Global Warming Act”, and as founder of the USGBC Central Valley Chapter, and many other advisory positions.

Other notable affiliations over the past 20 years include: “Sustainable San Francisco” as Co-author of the San Francisco Master Plan for future generations; “Green Building Products Showcase” which was co-sponsored by the AIA-Committee on the Environment, Pacific Gas & Electric, Urban Ecology Institute, and the Architects, Designers, & Planners for Social Responsibility, and was the original concept for West Coast Green Conference. Conference Host and founder of the benchmark “Altering Profiles of the Future” for the commissioning of the U.C. Santa Barbara campus Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and management the foundation for all future California State and University of California conferences on the greening of college campus.

Jon was the Sustainable Initiatives Manager for Armstrong World Industries and was successful in changing the corporate culture to one of environmental consciousness.

As an importer of bamboo building products he has extensive international connections. He is active with the International Diplomacy Council serving as a consultant on sustainability issues with the countries of Saudi Arabia, India and Japan. He has also served as a Trade Consultant with the German Chamber of Commerce on Environmental Marketing.

Jon currently teaches “green technology” at the community colleges of San Bernardino and Riverside counties and resides in Southern California.