Marge Anderson

Marge’s career experience spans grassroots organizing, non-profit leadership and governance, program development and technical education. She has dedicated her career to championing a low carbon-built environment, energy efficiency, and the power of human innovation to create a greener, healthier and more just future. Marge's past roles include Senior Event Director for the global Clean Air Task Force and Executive Vice President for Slipstream. She chaired the U.S. Green Building Council’s Board of Directors, the New Building Institute's Board of Directors, and the buildings working group for Dane County, Wisconsin’s climate action plan team. 

Marge inherited her love of nature from generations of outdoorswomen, and her commitment to social justice from her working-class childhood in an American Rust Belt city. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College. Marge is a birder, an amateur naturalist, and a storyteller. Her personal mantra is Tony Juniper’s quote: “it’s too late for pessimism.”