Anthony Dente, PE, LEED AP, is a licensed engineer across the US, CEO at both Verdant Structural Engineers (VSE) and Verdant Building Products (VBP) and is the vice president of the Cob Research Institute (CRI). With VBP, he is leading the deployment of their, carbon-storing, straw insulated, wall panels, developed under the EPA SBIR grant program. VSE assists with permit acquisition as well as product, research, and code development for low carbon structural solutions. He was the lead engineer for the Cob (Monolithic Adobe) Construction Appendix in the International Residential Code, as well as the Hemp-Lime (Hempcrete) Appendix, both the first of their kind in the US. Anthony is the chair of the structural sub-committee of the TMS Earthen Modular Masonry Standard Committee developing the much-needed contemporary adobe and CEB building code. Anthony recently authored Essential Cob Construction, A Guide to Design, Engineering, and Building with New Society Publishers.