WHO WE ARE
THE GREEN EDGE NETWORK OF PREFERRED PROVIDERSGreen Edge, LLC, is a Green Building consulting/law firm that was founded in 2007 by Ellen Sinreich to provide strategic sustainability services to businesses and governmental entities. Given the constantly evolving technologies, talents and perspective that going green demands, Green Edge has developed the 
Green Edge Network of Preferred Providers: affiliates that offer outstanding talent in the technical, financial and legal environmental arenas, including LEED® Accredited Professionals, building construction experts, energy engineers, climate scientists, marketing, branding and public relations strategists and legal, financial, tax and real estate industry practitioners. We have intentionally kept our “in-house” team small – that way our clients have the best of both worlds: a vast GOING GREEN resource bank at their disposal, as well as a personal relationship with a boutique consultancy.
THE GREEN EDGE in-house Team
ELLEN SINREICH
Ellen Sinreich, LEED AP, Esq., is the Founder and President of Green Edge, LLC. After two decades as a real estate executive and attorney, Ellen recognized that the need to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment would transform the real estate industry. She formed Green Edge to provide clients with practical, cost-effective carbon footprint reduction strategies as the basis for competing and winning in the 21st century.
Ellen draws upon her sustainability, management, real estate and legal expertise to help clients achieve peak performance results by greening their companies and their real estate portfolios. Her projects range from the development of a 2,500 acre multi-university campus in the Middle East and an existing 250 acre planned community in New England to luxury high-rise and mixed use projects in the Southwest and the creation of a regional framework for financing energy efficiency improvements in the Northeast.
A graduate of Columbia Law School, Ellen was general counsel for a national real estate company operating properties in 24 states prior to founding Green Edge. She is on the faculty of New York University, chairs the annual Green Real Estate Summit, is the Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s CRC Gold Council and a member of the Environmental Committee of the International Council of Shopping Centers, as well as the former New York State Government Affairs Chair of the ICSC. Ellen is also a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and The Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Her publications include: The Business Case for Sustainable Real Estate; The Evolving Picture of Energy Efficiency Retrofitting of New York City Office Buildings; A Collaborative Framework for Greening the Office Lease; Greening the Retail Lease: A Practical Guide for Landlords and Tenants; and The Greening of Retail: What’s the Bottom Line?
RYAN NORTH
Ryan North, LEED AP and landscape architect, has extensive hands-on
experience with the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and
Environment Design (LEED) Green Building rating system and has designed
sustainable building systems for LEED projects including The Green at
Florham Park, The Mall at Oyster Bay and an ecological resort in Costa Rica.
Ryan's expertise ranges from creating and implementing strategies for
improving energy efficiency in existing buildings to storm water management,
green roofs, low-irrigation landscaping, habitat restoration and control of "heat island effect". Ryan is a contributor to the Building Performance Lab
at the City University of New York, where he supports New York City's real
estate community in their efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of their
buildings. Ryan is a graduate of Rutgers University and is currently pursuing
an MBA at Baruch College.
SARA MEARS
Sara Mears combines verbal and visual skills with a focus on sustainability to create strategies, brands, and communication designs inspired by and accountable to the triple bottom line. Sara’s flare for creating game-changing 
marketing strategies and award-winning brand campaigns has been accessed by organizations ranging from entrepreneurial start-ups to Fortune 500 corporations and national non-profits including American Express, Milliken & Co., Sundance, Planned Parenthood and the Carnegie Foundation. In addition, Sara is skilled at distilling and articulating the results of those creative endeavors to internal and external stakeholder groups and has designed communication strategies that have been recognized by Rebrand 100, Fast Company, Business Week, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and Communication Arts. Sara is a graduate of the University of Washington.