Catherine Horsey has spent her entire career involved in conservation, from her early days working on the conservation of federal energy resources, to a second career in historic preservation and, more recently, to sustainable real-estate development.

As a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, she helped to explore and estimate the nation’s coal reserves.  Working with the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Preservation Dallas and the Providence (Rhode Island) Preservation Society, Horsey came to understand the importance of the energy embodied in the resources used to construct historic buildings as well as the sense of place they convey to the community.  She embraced the modernist movement’s ideals of efficiency of space and materials as well as, in many cases, the more minimal impact of modernist structures on existing neighborhoods. 

Returning to Dallas from Rhode Island in 2004, she has worked with the sustainable residential development Urban Reserve, a developer of affordable housing in South Dallas, two small builders of architect-designed modernist houses and the Antoine Predock-designed Trinity River Audubon Center.  In 2007, Horsey achieved Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) professional accreditation from the United States Green Building Council.

She has been honored by the City of Dallas, the City of Providence, the Dallas and Rhode Island chapters of the American Institute of Architects and other organizations for her work in neighborhood revitalization and historic preservation.

Horsey now builds on her long-term relationships with the corporate community, neighborhood groups, nonprofit organizations, the media, and appointed and elected officials to help develop and preserve sustainable places, sustainable organizations.

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