How is this for a resume?

• Author of the book, Plunging into Green: One Plumber’s Journey to Becoming a Water Hugger.

• Board member of the Ronald McDonald House of Southern Arizona.

• Host of the Arizona Green Plumber BlogTalk radio program.

• Guest on Tucson’s Desert Living program.

• Instructor at water conservation workshops.

• Guest on Mrs. Green Goes Mainstream radio program.

• Founding member of the Southern Arizona Green Chamber of Commerce.

• Certified instructor in green plumbing through GreenPlumbersUSA Core Series (Caring for Our Water, Solar Water Heaters, Climate Care, Water Efficient Technologies and Inspection Report Services).

• And, finally, the GreenPlumbersUSA National Green Plumber of the Year for both 2010 and 2011.

To all of those accomplishments, John Smith, Rooter 2000/The Arizona Green Plumber, can add another — he is the CONTRACTOR magazine Contractor of the Year for 2011.

We’re not the only people noticing what Smith is doing.

“John Smith embodies the concept and mission of Green Plumbers,” says Steve Lehtonen, former CEO at GreenPlumbersUSA, the person who brought the GreenPlumbers organization from Australia to the U.S. “We know that contractors and plumbers are rejuvenated when they take our courses, but John has taken the energy and commitment to new levels. He inspires me!” “

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John Smith is a visionary among plumbers! Since ‘drinking the Kool-Aid’ of green plumbing, he has been a tireless champion of water conservation and water reuse,” says Jerry Yudelson, P.E., LEED Fellow, a consultant, lecturer and author of Dry Run: Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis and other seminal books about energy and water conservation.

Smith has come a long way for a guy who got into plumbing because his now-ex-mother-in-law told him he needed a trade and she’d pay for it.