About the Authors

Eric Corey Freed is an award-winning architect, 12-time author, global speaker, and notorious comedian. As a sought-out lecturer, he has educated more than 300,000 people across all 50 states and 7 countries on issues related to sustainability, high-performance building, and the built environment. His books and videos have been viewed by over a million people worldwide.

As a licensed architect, Eric brings nearly 30 years of experience in helping architects, builders, and owners use sustainability to improve the design and operational savings for thousands of buildings around the country. Companies such as Autodesk, Pixar, Apple, and Lowe’s have hired him to help them incorporate deeper sustainability into their businesses.

Eric is a returning For Dummies author, having written his award-winning Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies (2007) as well as Green Your Home For Dummies (2008). He coauthored another Wiley title, Sustainable School Architecture (2010) as well as Green$ense for the Home: Rating the Payoff from 50 Green Home Projects (from Taunton Press). The latter won the 2011 Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Eric has served on the boards and advisory boards of dozens of companies and nonprofits throughout his career, focused on helping them get “unstuck” through strategy, planning, and implementation for next-stage planning. His real skill lies in helping these organizations connect the dots and uncover new opportunities to raise funding, generate revenue, attract customers, and streamline operations. He does this through the lens of sustainability: return on investment, lifecycle costing, carbon accounting, social equity, and supply chain optimization.

Considered a leader in his field, Eric was named by San Francisco magazine Best Green Architect in 2005 and Best Visionary in 2007. In 2012, he was named one of the 25 Best Green Architecture Firms in the United States, and one of the Top 10 Most Influential Green Architects. In 2017 he was named one of Build's American Architecture Top 25, and the following year he was one of Fixr’s Top 200 Influencers in the Construction Industry. He also holds a prestigious LEED Fellow award from the US Green Building Council.

Eric loves talking with people about sustainability and design. For more information on his work and activities, visit circulareconomyfordummies.com or follow him on Twitter: @EricCoreyFreed.

Kyle Ritchie is a trained environmental scientist, circular economy expert, and sustainable design consultant who combines his array of natural resources and environmental management expertise with his passion for optimizing the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

As a sustainable design consultant, Kyle has impacted over a million square feet of building area for award-winning universities and institutions in North America, the Middle East, and Eastern Asia and has improved on the design and operations of student housing facilities, hospitals, laboratories, libraries, and entire campuses. Indiana University, Butler University, Colby College, Duke University, Arizona State University, UCLA, The American University of Bahrain, and dozens of other universities around the world have benefited from Kyle’s insight and sustainable design leadership. He provides architectural design reviews and project management for projects pursuing various rating systems, including LEED, WELL, CHPS, Living Building Challenge, and is a LEED BD+C, ID+C, WELL AP, and EcoDistrics accredited professional.

In addition to working with institutions to optimize the built environment, Kyle supports the growth of the sustainable design industry as an adjunct professor at the Boston Architectural College, where he teaches both Energy in The Built Environment II and Resilient Design to graduate students enrolled in the college’s sustainable design program. In addition, Kyle speaks internationally on the circular economy movement and partners with non-profits and other organizations world-wide to help motivate a global transition to a circular way of living. He also started the Circular Economy Studio which further aims to facilitate the circular economy practice within the built environment. For circular economy consultation and other services, visit www.circulareconomy.studio for more information.