Advisors to the Quiet Clean Alliance
Jeff Cordulack
Jeff is a Connecticut native whose career has focused on wildlife conservation, watershed protection, organic farming, and a other subjects related to sustainability. He earned a B.S. in Natural Resources Management and Conservation Biology from Colorado State University in 1995. He has since traveled widely throughout the U.S., Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Southern and Eastern Africa. Currently Jeff owns and manages Organic Ways & Means, one of the first all-electric and 100% organic landscaping companies in the Northeast U.S. Started in 2019, his company has converted hundreds of acres to zero-emission yard care while also trying to inspire local landscapers to do the same. Jeff readily shares all he knows about growing organically with anyone he meets. Jeff has taught tens of thousands of people how to protect nature through simple, everyday actions. Previous professional roles include ecology instructor for SoundWaters; Executive Director of The Northeast Organic Farming Association and NOFA’s Organic Land Care Program; and Communications and Education Director for National Audubon Society in Greenwich, CT. When not on the road sharing organic know-how, Jeff can be found sailing on Long Island Sound, skiing in the backcountry or tending his family’s hot chili gardens.
Chuck Elkins
Chuck worked for the Federal Environmental Protection Agency for 25 years where at various times he directed each of the nationwide programs on air pollution, pesticides, toxic chemicals, radiation, noise, and stratospheric ozone. He then worked for 20 years as an environmental consultant focused on trying to persuade agencies like EPA to make sound policy decisions. He is the founder and director of the EPA Alumni Association. He has lived in Wesley Heights D.C. for over 36 years and is the Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner for 3D01. Working with Quiet Clean D.C., he was instrumental in the passage of Washington D.C.’s bold and successful prohibition on the use and sale of gas-powered leaf blowers.
James Fallows
A longtime writer, Jim has authored hundreds of articles as staff correspondent for The Atlantic and has contributed to The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and many other magazines. His dozen books include the national best-seller Our Towns (co-authored with his wife Deborah Fallows) which became the basis for an HBO feature documentary. Jim and Deborah founded the Our Towns Civic Foundation to connect local-level innovators around the country. He posts frequently on his “Breaking the News” site on Substack. He grew up in San Bernardino County in Southern California, studied American history and literature at Harvard and economics at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. During the first two years of the Jimmy Carter administration he was the chief White House speechwriter. He and Deborah have spent many years on assignments in China, Japan, Malaysia, Australia, and parts of Europe. They now live in Washington DC, where they were active in the Quiet Clean DC movement that led to the District’s ban on gas-powered leaf blowers.
Steven J. Goldstein, MD
Steven practices General Pediatrics at Northwell Health Kew Gardens Hills, after a 40-year career in private practice. He has a BS in Ecology from Cornell University and is the current Chair of the Committee on Environmental Health and Climate Change for Chapter 2 (Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk) of the NY State American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and a Climate Advocate in the National AAP. He coordinated statewide advocacy for both children’s medical coverage and for the environment for NY AAP. He is a Past President of Chapter 2. After a Climate Health Organizing Fellowship at Harvard-Cambridge Health, he helped found NY Clinicians for Climate Action (NY CCA), which is NY state’s representative to the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health. Dr. Goldstein is passionate about protecting the environment and the health of this and future generations. He is currently promoting information about the climate crisis, environmental health, and other issues related to children and the future on Bluesky.
Michael Hall
Michael is a co-founder and past co-chair of the Quiet Clean Alliance. He describes himself as a “life-long ‘good trouble’ maker.” Born in Wilmington, DE, he grew up outside of Chicago and moved to Berkeley in the 1960’s. He completed his undergraduate degree at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, then got a masters degree in organizational behavior from the California School of Professional Psychology in 1990. This launched him on a beloved career in service to students at four different colleges, including 18 years as Dean of Student Services at Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland. He received an honorary doctorate from PNCA’s faculty in 2015. After retiring from higher education administration, Michael started an anti-gas leaf blower campaign in 2018 that soon became Quiet Clean PDX, which he still co-chairs. After years of advocacy by the group, Portland City Council passed an ordinance in 2024 to phase out the use of gas leaf blowers by 2028. Michael would be happy to share his experience and advice with anyone interested in building a local campaign to eliminate gas leaf blowers. Email michael@quietcleanpdx.org.
Lucy Weinstein, MD, MPH
Lucy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at SUNY/Stony Brook School of Medicine in Stony Brook, NY. She is also a pediatrician and Chair of the Environmental Health Committee, NY Chapter 2 of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She is Assistant Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine at SUNY/Stony Brook, and past president of the Nassau Pediatric Society. Her interest in environmental health led her to co-found Huntington CALM with Bonnie Sager and help draft the Medical Society of the State of New York’s resolution on gas leaf blowers. Lucy has been a staunch supporter of eliminating gas leaf blowers due to the myriad health issues they pose to the public and those who operate them. Dr. Weinstein earned her MD from Boston University’s School of Medicine and her Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University. Her pediatric training was at Case-Western Reserve University Hospitals in Cleveland, and her Preventive Medicine residency was at SUNY/Stony Brook.
Patti Wood
Patti is founder and executive director of Grassroots Environmental Education, an award-winning non-for-profit environmental health organization whose mission is to inform the public about the health risks of common environmental exposures and to empower individuals to act as catalysts for change in their own communities. She is also a visiting scholar at Adelphi University, lecturing on environmental health issues in the College of Nursing and Public Health. She has served as a consultant to the New York State Department of Health (Environmental Health Division) and was a member of the New York State Governor’s Advisory Council on Sustainability and Green Procurement. She was instrumental in writing and helping pass groundbreaking legislation on pesticides in New York State and New York City and has created numerous award-winning programs such as The ChildSafe School, TechSafe Schools, The BabySafe Project, and Helping to Heal. She also developed environmental education programs for elementary and middle school children including “I’ll Have the Plastic Fish Special, Please!” and “Welcome to Plastic Beach.” She has received national, state and local recognition for her work, including a U.S. EPA Children’s Environmental Health Excellence Award. She is also the author of the book Helping to Heal and co-producer of the film “Our Children at Risk.” Ms. Wood and her husband Doug, are co-hosts of the nationally syndicated radio show, Green Street.