ENERGY STAR @ Home Podcast

November 15, 2007

Host and Speaker Bios

Denise Durrett

Denise Durrett has been with the US Environmental Protection Agency since 1994. She manages ENERGY STAR's summer cooling and fall heating outreach, develops various tools and materials to help consumers understand the link between energy use and the environment, and conducts media outreach about ENERGY STAR. Denise has a degree in Marketing and Communications from the University of Maryland University College.

Kitty Morgan

Kitty Morgan, a 20-year magazine and newspaper industry veteran, is the Executive Editor of Better Homes & Gardens and has held editorial positions at some of the nation's leading shelter and lifestyle publications-Oprah Magazine: O At Home; Readers Digest; and Departures.

Kitty also spent seven years as editor of Cincinnati Magazine, where she helped transform a sleepy city magazine into a significant regional publication. She started her journalism career with Sunset in 1984 at the Los Angeles office as an associate travel editor. She has held a variety of editorial positions, including a seven-year stint at The Orange County Register, where she worked as a reporter and editor covering everything from breaking news to architecture, to restaurants and travel.

Tom Watson

Tom Watson is project manager for King County's Recycling and Environmental Services. He writes a monthly EcoConsumer column for The Seattle Times that explores how to balance consumerism with environmentalism.

Prior to joining King County in 1992, Tom was a writer and contributing editor for Resource Recycling, a national trade journal. He has also reported for daily and weekly newspapers in Indiana, California, and Alaska.

Ken Sheinkopf

Ken Sheinkopf is a communications specialist with the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), the United States section of the International Solar Energy Society. He recently retired after 24 years with the Florida Solar Energy Center and currently serves as vice president of The Sheinkopf Group, an energy and education consulting firm.

His weekly newspaper column on home energy has been written continuously and nationally syndicated since 1986. Ken is co-author of the Consumer Guide to Solar Energy; Successful Fundraising; and Energy Efficient Florida Home Building. He was editor of the Mini-Review of Active (Thermal) Solar Energy 1995, published internationally by the Centre for the Analysis and Dissemination of Demonstrated Energy Technologies (CADDET). Ken has written more than 100 articles, professional papers, presentations, and speeches on energy efficiency. He has also given presentations on energy efficiency and renewable energy in China, Japan, France, Poland, Norway, Sweden, Israel, and several other countries.