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EarthTechling is an online consumer publication focused on all things green technology that aims to bring different voices to the cleantech revolution discussion. From clean energy and electric vehicles to green gadgets and green buildings, our passionate team, contributing partners and readers weigh in on the latest green news, services, and products. We cover advancements in green technology occurring around the world from our home base here in Portland, Oregon, and have been doing so since late summer of 2009.

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The EarthTechling Team:

Nino Marchetti – Co-Founder, President & Editor-in-Chief (Oregon)

Nino Marchetti is a green technology journalist with a passion for the environment. His pieces focused upon consumer tech have been published online and in print at CNET, Laptop, PC World, About.com, The Oregonian, EcoGeek, Digital Trends, Consumer Guide, and E-Gear. He has appeared on The Today Show, Portland’s AM Northwest, and several other regional television and radio programs to present technology gift guides and reviews. Nino has been interested in green causes for quite some time, including the Nature Conservancy, but never found just the right way to combine his skills and passion until EarthTechling came along.

Nino was also one of the first 20 employees at Yahoo! and remained with that company until 2000, before transitioning into journalism in 2002. He holds a B.A. from Sonoma State University in California. When not writing about green technology, Nino can be found looking for the next best restaurant, bar, or microbrew in Portland.

Patricia Marchetti – Co-Founder, CEO (Oregon)

Patricia Marchetti brings her wealth of business and marketing experience to run all things business for EarthTechling.  She is a marketing thought leader and an accomplished speaker on green business and green marketing.  In the mid 1990s, Patricia was hired by the California State Senate as a policy consultant focused on health care and as a writer and editor for the Senate’s Daily Briefing. Patricia transitioned to the private sector in 1998 to focus on marketing and public relations. She held marketing positions at two investment bank focused on tech mergers & acquisitions during the dotcom era and spent several years  marketing Thomson West’s legal and regulatory publishing products before becoming an entrepreneur in 2004.

Patricia founded Marchetti Creative, a marketing consulting firm, in early 2004. One of her first clients was San Francisco start-up Adaptive Path where she handled marketing, public relations, and events management in that company’s early days. She transitioned to EarthTechling fulltime in 2010. Patricia holds a B.A. from the University of California, Davis. In her spare time, she’s probably chasing after her two beagles or traveling the globe to practice her French language skills.

Sara Thompson – Marketing Coordinator (Washington)

Sara Thompson is a native Oregonian and earned her BA in public relations from the University of Oregon in 2008. Sara has two brothers named Kyle and enjoys sewing in her free time.

Pete Danko – Managing Editor (Oregon)

Sports columnist, newspaper desk guy, website managing editor, wine-industry PR specialist, freelance writer—Pete Danko’s career in media has covered a lot of terrain. The constant along the way has been a fierce dedication to knowing the story and getting it right. Danko has written on tech for Wired and HotWired, and his explorations of a broad swath of topics and issues have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mountain Bike, American Journalism Review, the The New York Times and many other publications.

Susan Kraemer – Columnist (New Zealand)

Susan Kraemer enjoys writing to publicize the many great solutions for climate change that we can find if we just put our minds to it. She covers renewable policy and clean energy for CleanTechnica and GreenProphet and green building at HomeDesignFind. She recently moved home to Waiheke Island where her writing is now powered by the 80% renewable electricity that powers New Zealand. It seems to work just fine. But she misses the solar system she left behind; still pumping put clean electrons for the California grid for the next 30 years.

Susan DeFreitas – Contributing Writer (Oregon)

Susan DeFreitas is a writer who moved to Portland in August of 2009, after spending the last fourteen years in the high desert of Arizona. She brings with her a passion for sustainability, having served as a freelance marketing professional and publicist for green/sustainable businesses and nonprofits for the past 7 years. Susan’s journalism, fiction and poetry has appeared in such publications as Yes! Magazine, the Utne Reader and Natural Home, as well as The Bear Deluxe, Southwestern American Literature and Third Wednesday.

Steve Duda – Contributing Writer (Washington)

Steve Duda lives in West Seattle, WA with three dogs and a lot of outdoor gear. A part-time fly fishing fishing guide and full-time writer, Steve’s work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Seattle Weekly, American Angler, Fly Fish Journal, The Drake, Democracy Now! and many others.

Kristy Hessman – Contributing Writer (California)

Kristy Hessman is a writer and native Oregonian who currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Before starting her own company, she worked as a reporter covering business and politics for daily newspapers and The Associated Press. She holds a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois. When she’s not writing, she enjoys traveling, surfing, competing in triathlons and promoting Rac Sacks, her line of eco-friendly, recycled handbags.

Lauren Craig – Contributing Writer (Washington)

Lauren Craig is a writer and consultant living in Seattle, WA. She holds an M.S. in International Development from Tulane University, and is co-founder of Sustainable Systems Integrators, LLC., an employee-owned solar energy design and installation firm in New Orleans, LA. She is also certified in PV design and installation by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP). When she is not geeking out on energy policy and renewable energy technologies, Lauren enjoys hiking with her dogs, gardening, playing the fiddle, and working on her 1974 Airstream Argosy travel trailer.

Angeli Duffin – Contributing Writer (California)

Angeli Duffin is a Midwest transplant currently living in San Francisco, CA. Kicking off her career doing product design and development with Fair Trade artisans around the world, she then moved on to the editorial side, writing for eBay’s Green Team blog and working as a marketing consultant for social and environmentally minded companies. When not on the job, she’s planning her next DIY re-use project, traveling across the country or (ideally) world, or continuing her local quest for the perfect pair of vintage boots.

Stefan Durham – Product Reviewer (Oregon)

Stefan Durham came to Oregon in 1992 and got his first job in journalism 10 years later as a fact checker. Since those early vetting days he has been a contributing researcher, editor, and writer for a variety of online and print publications both in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere. When not at the keyboard or on the beat he devotes as much time as possible to being under the forest canopy or on a bike seat, getting all the sun and fresh air available to a Portland denizen. He usually spends the rest of his energy out on the the dance floor, wherever classic swing jazz music may be found.