Andy Mannle is a writer, speaker, and strategic communications consultant, who has spent the last five years helping people understand the changing landscape of sustainable business, green design, clean energy, and environmental policy. He is a regular columnist for Environmental Leader.com, and his essays have appeared on SolveClimate.com, Sustainable Life Media, Current Green, the NRDC blog and other sites dedicated to sustainability. In 2009, he led the team at Sherwood Design Engineers in writing Sustainable Infrastructure: The Guide to Green Engineering & Design, a manual on sustainable design to be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2010.

Before that, Andy was senior editor of Arcwire.org, where he spent two years interviewing thought leaders and covering emerging developments in greenbuilding, renewable energy, environmental policy, and climate change. Andy has over fifteen years experience writing, researching, teaching, and traveling and has taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, UC Santa Cruz and others.

Additionally, Andy was an ESL teacher, studied in Cairo, taught in Japan for two years, as well as in Europe, and has traveled to over 25 countries. He also speaks three languages.