Susan Short

Susan Short is the founder and principal of Deep Green Living, a green consultancy that offers personalized services to help clients make smarter and healthier choices for their homes, lifestyles, and the planet.

Before moving to New York City, Susan worked as a naturalist and program developer at The Biscayne Nature Center in Miami, and as an associate producer, sound technician and writer on natural history documentaries. Susan’s interest in ecology led her to become progressively interested in the ways humans live in harmony or discord with nature.

She and her husband bought and renovated the Harmony Hotel in Nosara, Costa Rica and have sought to make it a place of ecological harmony, healing, and social sustainability. Susan formed Deep Green Living in response to her determination to bring that same focus to her living practices in New York City. She recognized a need to provide a support network to individuals seeking to align their environmental values and urban aesthetics in their everyday lives.

Susan is a member of the inaugural class of the Catto Fellowship in Energy and the Environment at the Aspen Institute and a founding trustee of the Pacific Foundation, a private charitable foundation that funds innovation in education, the environment and the arts.