About Us
Gregory
Urban Renewable co-founder Gregory Keith Williams is a founding principal at the award-winning MASS Architecture + Design firm in L.A. He received his Bachelor’s in Architecture from UC Berkeley and his master’s program in Architecture from UCLA, and has over 30 years’ experience in the residential and commercial market in the LA metro area. In 2010, he designed one of the city’s first small-lot developments, which Dwell Magazine highlighted for the way it capitalized on L.A.’s new Small Lot Subdivision Ordinance to maximize the property’s potential, adding that, “With a host of sustainable features, including solar power and a community garden, these row house–like homes provide new models for the ever-expanding metropolis.” In his spare time, he also stars in Jaguar’s I-pace electric-car commercial.
Marilyn
Marilyn Berlin Snell is an independent journalist and author who has focused for more than 30 years on the nexus between the environment, culture, and politics. As staff writer for Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, she initiated and wrote the magazine’s regular feature-length profiles of environmental heroes whose ethnicity or economic status had historically rendered them invisible in the movement. Her 2018 book, Unlikely Ally: How the military fights climate change and protects the environment, focuses on the cutting-edge renewable energy innovations being developed on military installations in California – innovations such as green microgrids that are scalable for neighborhoods and municipalities alike.