Changes at Home Energy

Home Energy staff: Top row, David Bolling, Mary James, Alan Meier, Steve Greenberg; Bottom row, Louis Rasky, Sarah Taber, Colleen Turrell.

I remain the president and executive editor. I still decide the general direction of the magazine, write editorials, rewrite articles, and generally get in other people's way. But we now have a new executive director, David Bolling. David runs the day-to-day operations of the organization and must undo all of my mischief. David replaces Ann Kelly, who after more than seven amazing years, is gradually stepping down to pursue other activities in the energy arena. You will still see Ann's name appearing in Home Energy, even though her official role will disappear.

Colleen Turrell became our managing editor in 1998. Colleen keeps the magazine on schedule and writes and edits a lot of the content. Mary James became our publisher in January, 1999, but she also devotes much of her time to editorial matters, including writing and editing, as well as assigning articles to outside authors. She's the one to contact when you have a story that needs publishing. When you call Home Energy, you are likely to reach Rebecca Anaya, who manages circulation.

The other strength of Home Energy is its technical editors: Steve Greenberg, Nance Matson, and Ed Wyatt--as well as the dozens of "friends of Home Energy" who act as outside reviewers for individual stories. They make sure that our articles are technically sound and don't claim greater energy savings than was used in the first place. I also must mention our global network of writers for their unusual and authoritative articles.

You will see gradual changes in Home Energy's appearance and content. With the help of our new graphic artist and production manager, Sarah Taber, you will see more graphics to explain the technical issues raised in the articles. We've been squeezing a lot more content into the magazine, with more trends and features in every issue. With this issue, we are inaugurating our House Doctor column, in an effort to answer in print some of the many home performance questions we get from readers every week. We also are reorganizing departments and applying new editorial policies to them. For example, the Clips and Resources departments are moving into one larger, more general category, News & Reviews. Even though the magazine will stay at 48 pages, it will continue to grow. This physical impossibility is achieved by virtual expansion onto the World Wide Web at www.homeenergy.org. Here we will continue to supplement magazine articles and hope to provide other information (such as job listings). In fact, in a few recent issues we have included stories on our Web site that did not appear in the magazine.

As many as 200 people already visit our Web site each day, and a majority of them have bookmarked us. That's a good example to follow, because with all our new Web site features, you will want to surf our site after your latest issue arrives (and perhaps in between issues, too).

One thing has not changed at all: We continue to value your input to Home Energy. The energy efficiency industry is undergoing rapid and vast transformation. We need your letters, suggestions, and contributions to help us stay on top of those changes. Our intrepid marketing manager, Louis Rasky (the person to call if you want to advertise in Home Energy), is always happy to hear your impressions of the magazine and will even be passing out surveys at upcoming conferences to get more information. Our editorial staff is also eager to hear our readers' impressions of the articles we run.

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