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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-weight="font-weight" inherit="inherit" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">In fact, the<a href="http://www.thegbi.org/contact-us.asp" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; border-image-source: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-width: initial; border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> Green Building Initiative</a> is a sham set up by a former Louisiana Pacific lumber PR executive, Ward Hubbell, for the explicit purpose of creating a rating system that allowed SFI certified wood.</span><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-weight="font-weight" inherit="inherit" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> It operates out of the offices of his company,</span><a href="http://www.hubbellcommunications.com/hubbell-case-studies.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" font-style="font-style" inherit="inherit" font-variant="font-variant" line-height="line-height" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" border="border" border-image-source="border-image-source" initial="initial" border-image-slice="border-image-slice" border-image-width="border-image-width" border-image-outset="border-image-outset" border-image-repeat="border-image-repeat" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Hubbell Communications</a><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, which specializes in "Grassroots and Grasstops mobilization", also know as astroturfing. Members and supporters of the Green Building Initiative include the</span><b> American Chemistry Council</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;">, SFI, The American Forest & Paper Association and the Chemical Fabrics and Film Association. It is hardly, as Senator Wicker maintains, a credible standard.</span></span></font><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 29.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More on the Green Building initiative </span><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/coming-soon-greenwashed-lumber.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">here</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 29.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and</span><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/understanding-labels-part-2-separating-green-building-from-greenwash.html" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> here</a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large; line-height: 29.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</b></div><div>Communications Strategy, Issues Management, Public Relations, Public Affairs</div><div>Portland, Oregon AreaPublic Relations and Communications</div><div>
</div><div>Hubbell Communications</div><div>Previous<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Green Building Initiative, Louisiana Pacific Corporation</div><div>Education<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div>Wake Forest University</div><div>
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</div><div>Summary</div><div>Ward Hubbell is an issues management and communications strategist. He founded an award-winning public relations firm that has served as communications counsel for some of the most recognizable business names in the Pacific Northwest and throughout the nation. Prior to forming the Portland, Oregon-based public affairs firm Hubbell Communications, Ward was a high level communications executive and company spokesperson for two Fortune 500 corporations in the natural resources industry. He has developed public relations programs and managed public relations for some of the nation's most controversial public policy issues. Ward began his career in Washington, DC where he served as a speechwriter, media spokesperson, an organizer for political campaigns and executive with a leading public affairs and public relations agency. </div><div>
</div><div>Ward is also accomplished in the areas of message development, government relations and coalition building. In 2004, he founded and led the Green Building Initiative for nearly 10 years. Under his leadership, the GBI became one of the nation's leading green building certification organizations and an influential voice in local, state and federal policy regarding building design and operation. He has spoken publicly throughout the nation and internationally, testified before Congress and has been interviewed by some of the world's largest and most influential news outlets.</div><div>
</div><div>Ward is an active volunteer having served on the boards of some of the state's most influential business and civic organizations. He is currently on the boards of the Entrepreneur's Organization, Cascade Pacific Council of the Boy Scouts of America, and the Lake Oswego Corporation.</div><div>
</div><div>Ward is a public relations professional highly skilled in areas including</div><div>
</div><div>Media relations </div><div>Issues management</div><div>Communications strategy</div><div>Grassroots mobilization</div><div>Message development</div><div>Solving communications crises</div><div>Developing public relations strategies</div><div>Ballot initiatives</div><div>Corporate reputation management</div><div>Experience</div><div>
</div><div>Hubbell Communications</div><div>President</div><div>Hubbell Communications</div><div>June 2002 – Present (14 years 2 months)</div><div>Hubbell Communications is Oregon's premier public affairs and public relations firm. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon and operating throughout the Pacific Northwest, Hubbell Communications develops and executes strategies for organizations that are concerned about the reputational impact of a public relations crisis. We also help clients who worry that their public policy or business objectives will not be achieved without the implementation of a sound communication strategy that building public understanding and support. Our client list ranges from small, entrepreneurial companies to some of the most influential organizations in the country. We tackle controversial and complex issues across a wide range of sectors including energy, transportation, manufacturing, natural resources, immigration, education and healthcare. </div><div>
</div><div>We perform a wide range of services which include media relations, crisis communication, litigation PR, ballot initiatives, community relations, digital advocacy, grassroots activation, coalition building, message development and issue advertising.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Green Building Initiative</b></div><div>Founder and President</div><div>Green Building Initiative</div><div>January 2004 – July 2013 (9 years 7 months)Portland, Oregon Area</div><div>Ward Hubbell founded the Green Building Initiative in 2004 and led the organization for nearly 10 years. Under his leadership, the GBI became one of the nation's most recognized and influential green building certification organizations. Hubbell developed and executed strategies that resulted in widespread public recognition for the organization's green building certification standard, Green Globes. By the end of his tenure, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Green Globes had been formally recognized as an equivalent standard to the LEED rating system in more than half the U.S. states and by the U.S. federal government.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Louisiana Pacific Corporation</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Vice President, Corporate Affairs</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Louisiana Pacific Corporation</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">August 1997 – June 2002 (4 years 11 months)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div>Ward led communications and government relations for this Fortune 500 forest products company during one of most tumultuous periods in the company's history. He managed the company's communications strategy through a major class action product liability lawsuit, criminal violations of the federal Clean Air Act, and numerous environmental and employment related lawsuits. As a member of the Senior Management Team and reporting directly to the CEO, Ward's areas of responsibility included corporate communications, government relations, marketing communications and corporate giving.</div><div>
</div><div>Volunteer Experience & Causes</div><div>Entrepreneurs' Organization</div><div>Board member</div><div>Entrepreneurs' Organization</div><div>May 2014 – Present (2 years 3 months)Economic Empowerment</div><div>Communications Chair</div><div>Board Member</div><div>Lake Oswego Corporation</div><div>PresentEnvironment</div><div>Causes Ward cares about:</div><div>Children</div><div>Civil Rights and Social Action</div><div>Economic Empowerment</div><div>Disaster and Humanitarian Relief</div><div>Politics</div><div>Organizations Ward supports:</div><div>Young Entrepreneurs Business Week</div><div>Skills</div><div>Social MediaAdvertisingMedia RelationsPublic PolicyPublic RelationsStrategic PlanningPublic SpeakingMarketing CommunicationsEvent PlanningMarketing StrategyNew Business DevelopmentProject ManagementBusiness StrategySustainabilityStrategic CommunicationsSee 35+</div><div>How's this translation?Great•Has errors</div><div>Education</div><div>Wake Forest University</div><div>Wake Forest University</div><div>MA</div><div>1983 – 1985</div><div>Mississippi State University</div><div>Mississippi State University</div><div>BA</div><div>1980 – 1982</div><div>Cleveland High School</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kara Hansen</font></font></font></font></div><div>Account Executive at Hubbell Communications</div><div>
</div><div>Dan Lavey</div><div>President/Partner at Gallatin Public Affairs</div><div>
</div><div>Rachel Smith</div><div>Marketing Communications Manager at Louisiana-Pacific Corporation</div><div>
</div><div>Scott Bruun</div><div>Principal at Hubbell Communications</div><div>
</div><div>Jennette Zarko</div><div>Social Media Coordinator at OHSU | Oregon Health & Science University</div><div>
</div><div>Hannah Rogers</div><div>Account Executive - PR and Communications Professional</div><div>
</div><div>Bush Bernard</div><div>Corporate Affairs Communications Specialist at Louisiana Pacific Corporation</div><div>
</div><div>Chris Edmonds</div><div>Account Executive at Hubbell Communications</div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></span></div></div>