About Me:

I am a former vehicle engineer reinvented as ecopreneur. I have a startup company created to assist displaced workers in Michigan (US) training them in clean energy. My long term vision is briefly described in my introduction. I envision assisting all sectors of society adopt the life enhancing time proven principles and technologies of transform our human environments into actual ecosystems that can become part of the natural ecosystem and biosphere. I envision my key contribution as teaching people to evolve their perception of reality from the reductionist mechanistic view of the world as a machine and life as a linear predictable sequential process, inherited from the Classical Mechanics which still dominates our industrial paradigm. No matter how much green technology and sustainability models we may create, without the mentioned shift in Consciousness embracing the world as a complex ecosystem, we will not be able to complete the transition to the Sustainable Paradigm.

Green Idea:

1) Create inspirational photography and videos to stimulate people's sustainability conscience 2) Minimize the demand for and use of printed material and paper in general maximizing the use of computers, air dryers and other means 3) Create a regional training center in clean technologies 4) Develop a collaboration between manufacturers and NGO's in the developing world to create low tech green products and implement in poor communities to improve their living conditions, health and catalyze sustainable development. The products would include potable water, clean energy and sustainable architecture.

Interests:

climate change and health, culture change, eco art, energy efficient design, environmental education, green business, green construction, innovation and design, natural capitalism, planet preservation, renewable energy, social ecology, solar and wind energy advances, solar and wind technologies, systems thinking and design, wastewater treatment and reuse

Favourite Movies:

home, body of lies, lord of war, blade runner, star wars, apocalypse now, scarface, gladiator, top gun, good night & good luck

Favourite Books:

justice. what is the right thing to do?, the web of life, the tao of physics, cradle to cradle, natural capitalism, globalization and its discontents, fractals.

Favourite Celebrities:

paul hawken, joseph stiglitz, john stewart, jeanine benyus, bono, matt damon, leonardo dicaprio, amory lovins