When Joe's not working hard earning your taxpayer dollars as a government attorney, he's busy building, writing, researching, bicycling, traveling, and doing just about everything other than practicing law.  Hailing originally from God's country (that's the Pacific Northwest in case you didn't already know that), he's found his way to the east coast where the government jobs are plentiful but green building products are few and far between.  He's now on a five-year mission to educate the local community about "west-coast-environmentalism" and green building.