Oregon's number one ecological Realtor, Kathy Ging has been the director of the First, Second and Third Lane County Energy Round-Ups in Eugene in 2007 and 2008, working with an all volunteer group and Lane County Commissioner Pete Sorenson. Over 400 people attended the events.
The most recent event, OUR TRANSPORTATION FUTURE: ELECTRIC VEHICLES… LOCAL BIOFUELS… MASS TRANSIT? featured a panel discussion and several speakers on electric transportation and biofuels including Paul Scott, founder of PlugInAmerica.org and president of the Southern California Electric Vehicles Assn.

(The Energy Round-Up was sponsored by Eugene Water & Electric Board, Emerald People's Utility District, Springfield Utility Board, Lane Electric Cooperative, Sequential Biofuels, Eugene Weekly, Helios Resource Network, Energy Trust of Oregon, West Wind Forest Products, Oregon Department of Energy and the Energy Design Co.)

Kathy Ging has a Master's degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has lived in Oregon for 35 years. Originally from Pennsylvania and later from San Francisco, she has studied and traveled extensively to become acquainted with other cultures.

She has been a promoter of energy efficiency, eco-products for homes, gardens and farms, ecological business practices and renewable energy sources for three decades.

Kathy directed or co-coordinated 21 renewable energy events in Oregon including the First Southern Oregon Energy Fair, Visions for Humanity in Ashland, Rogue Inventors Days, seven mini- fairs, Oregon Energy Round-Up at the State Fair 1981-83 and Energy Independence Days in Eugene and Springfield.

She catalyzed the addition of Energy Park to the Oregon Country Fair in 1981. She has also provided financial assistance to G.R.E.E.N. (Grassroots Renewable Energy Education Project) that has been making videos of renewable energy events.

Kathy co-founded the Northwest EcoBuilding Guild, SW Oregon Chapter, in Eugene, helping to organize 70 educational events and spearheaded the movement to green the Eugene library, the beginning of a gradual transition by the City of Eugene to its current proactive stance toward green building practices for all new public buildings.

She attended the first New Energy Movement conference in Portland, OR, the 1st Solar Power Summit in Salem, OR, and Oregon Solar Energy Industries Association Solar Expo in Portland, OR.

While doing post-graduate studies at the University of Oregon, she initiated the revised performance based personal income renewable energy tax credit in the Oregon legislature in the late 80s after 85% of the solar businesses state and nationwide had gone bankrupt because state and federal tax credits had been dropped.

She helped to organize the statewide momentum to win its passage 22 to zip the day before summer solstice in the second attempt to secure its passage.

This tax credit for home-owners and renters is still in effect and has been expanded and revised in recent years. When passed, it was widely considered to be the best renewable energy personal income tax credit in the country.

Kathy has been a member of several environmental and energy groups such as Solar Oregon, American Solar Energy Society, Climate Solutions, Citizens Utility Board, 3Estrategies, OSPIRG, NW EcoBuilding Guild, Green America, the School Garden Project, Oregon Toxics Alliance, Eugene Media Action, Eugene Peaceworks and Channel 29-Community TV.

She was on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Eugene Mayor's Sustainable Business Initiative, on the Statewide Green Building Committee and a panelist at HOPES, an EcoDesign and Arts Conference at the University of Oregon.

In the early 80s she was on the grant selection committee of the Federal Department of Energy Region X Small Scale Appropriate Technology Grants Program.

In 1981, Kathy lobbied the EWEB board to assign staff time to research solar electric power (PVs); EWEB did fund a part time position that year. She also co-sponsored the first local all day photovoltaic seminar with former EWEB Commissioner Jack Craig.

In December, 2006, Kathy testified to the EWEB Board that they should consider researching the idea of becoming a distributed utility where power is produced on rooftops, in yards and in neighborhoods (see Rocky Mountain Institute's book, Small Is Profitable: The Hidden Economic Benefits of Making Electrical Resources the Right Size; SmallIsProfitable.org

In 1997, Kathy won the First Citizen Activist of the Year Award from Friends of Eugene for exceptional community service and in the year 2000 she was chosen as one of 15 socially responsible business persons featured in Co-op America's yearly publication.

In the 70s she founded the Community Skills Bank and co-founded SUNERGI (Southern Oregon New Energy Institute) and was later secretary of the statewide Oregon Campaign for Public Power. She also worked on the Lane County political scene to energize Emerald People's Utility District doing extensive door-to-door work around the county and phone banking.

The above is a partial list of her involvement in community organizations.

Kathy has worked as a full-time Realtor in Lane County, Oregon, for 23 years. She can sell property anywhere
in the state of Oregon and can refer buyers and sellers to Realtors through her nationwide network.

For 27 years she has also promoted Liberated Salad, Biodiversity at the Table, a year-round garden that grows especially well West of the Cascades, of special interest to “localvores” interested in local, seasonal and organic food production. See http://LiberatedSalad.com
The seed mixture contains between 60 and 100 greens and ruby reds.

Liberated Salad promotion can be seen at the Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza, Food for Lane County building and the Eugene Library where Kathy made monetary donations.

Recently, Kathy, who loves music and dancing, has promoted several bands by making videos and helping to get them aired on cable access public TV stations such as CTV-Eugene and Google video.