Curriculum Vitae

Village Design Course; The Farm, TN – facilitated by Peter Bane and Albert Bates, et al.

Permaculture Design Course; Crystal Waters, Queensland, Australia – facilitated by Max Lindegger and Frances Lang
– Ecovillage Design Course; Crystal Waters, Queensland, Australia – facilitated by Global Ecovillage Network
– Sixth International Permaculture Conference; Perth, Western Australia
– Ecovillage Design Course; Rosneath Farm; Dunsborough, Western Australia – facilitated by Warwick Rowell

Present – North Creek Village; Bothell, WA – setting up a Community Education Campus with a Sustainability Demonstration Site as the center of a developing Urban Village

The Land; Happy Valley, Bellingham, WA – co-participant in an effort to create an Urban Ecovillage by piecing together five adjacent properties into a coherent whole, with a Co-op school as the anchor

Outback Farm; Fairhaven College; Bellingham, WA – creating a Permaculture Demonstration Site on university property

Oasis; Happy Valley, Bellingham, WA – co-participate in establishment of residential Urban Permaculture Project

The Farm; Happy Valley, Bellingham, WA – co-creation of Ecovillage and Permaculture Demonstration Site for 6 acres within city limits; site was eventually purchased by a CoHousing group

Bitterroot; Aeneas Valley, Okanogan County, WA – caretake 40 acres and a pair of horses on an abandoned commune way up in the hills

Research and Practice Session; Fielding Graduate Institute; Anaheim, CA – series of seminars preparing doctoral students for the research and dissertation stages of their study

Winter Session; Fielding Graduate Institute; Santa Barbara, CA – a week of seminars, meetings, and dialogue with an Organizational Development theme

Integrating Fundraising, Public Relations, and Volunteer Management into your Organization’s Work; South Seattle Community College – facilitated by Lisa Arnold Consulting

Millionaire Mind Intensive; Vancouver, B.C. – facilitated by Peak Potentials Training

Leadership Training/Group Facilitator Skills; Johnson’s Landing Retreat Center; Kaslo, British Columbia – facilitated by Brita Adkinson

Governance Retreat; Fielding Graduate Institute; Arlington, VA – three- day business meeting with faculty, staff, administration, and fellow students on governance committees

Transformative Learning Seminar; Fielding Graduate Institute; Emeryville, CA – special three-day seminar for students working in the Knowledge Area of Transformative Learning

Winter Session; Fielding Graduate Institute; Santa Barbara, CA – the annual meeting on the West Coast of Fielding students, faculty, and alumni – a week of seminars in Human and Organization Development

Orientation and Practice Session; Fielding Graduate Institute; Santa Barbara, CA – introduction to Fielding and its networked learning format of graduate-level education

Oxford Round Table; Oxford, England – invited to be a participant in a forum entitled “Sustainability: The Ultimate Quest”

Ecocity World Summit; San Francisco, CA – delivered a paper entitled: “An Historical Survey of Urban Densities as a Consequence of Energy Regime: Descent into the Urban Village”

World Urban Forum 3; United Nations Human Settlements Programme; Vancouver, British Columbia – attended as an NGO delegate

Synergy Conference, Evergreen State College; Olympia, WA – selected to be on a “Sustainable Communities” discussion panel

Payao, northern Thailand – facilitate Ecovillage Design Studio for EDE from Wongsanit Ashram; property owners want retreat center on 10 acres

Findhorn Ecovillage; The Park, Findhorn, Scotland – present slide-show and facilitate discussion on the theme: “The Urban Village as Sustainable Organic Morphology”

Centre for the Study of Natural Design, University of Dundee; Dundee, Scotland – present slide-show and facilitate discussion on the theme: “The Urban Village as Sustainable Organic Morphology”

University of New Mexico; Albuquerque – facilitate the Design Studio for the Ecological Dimension of the EDE; graduated the first twelve EDE alumni in North America

Antelope Valley Community College; Lancaster, CA – present Urban Village slide-show, emphasis on retrofit for energy descent, to a group of faculty

Moo Bahn Dek Children’s School, near Kanchanaburi, Thailand – facilitat Ecovillage Design Studio for EDE from Wongsanit Ashram

University of New Mexico; Albuquerque – co-sponsor the Social Dimension of the EDE; introduce Urban Design Studio

School of Architecture and Urban Planning; University of New Mexico; Albuquerque – give presentation to a 400-level class immersed in a “sustainability” seminar; discuss my urban village site plans

University of New Mexico; Albuquerque – co-sponsor the first week of North America’s first full EDE, beginning with the Worldview Dimension

Antelope Valley Community College; Lancaster, CA – adapt ecovillage design principles to a Health 101 class; describe my meditation experiences to a Stress Management class

Christian Center; Bangkok, Thailand – in conjunction with the Grassroots Leadership Training of the Spirituality in Education Movement, present the Ecological Dimension of the EDE to a group of Burmese students

Port Orchard, WA – give a presentation on Ecovillage Design at the Northwest Ecobuilder’s Guild Annual Retreat

Seattle, WA – design and present a weekend Urban Permaculture Design Workshop on a property in the Columbia City neighborhood

Port Townsend, WA – give an Ecovillage Design presentation at a certified Permaculture Design Course at the Port Townsend Ecovillage

University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada – one of my papers was chosen as required reading for a 400-level capstone class: “Land, Food and Community.” I went up to meet with the students and give a lecture on some of the more subtle points in the paper

Bellingham, WA – co-teach a Permaculture Design Workshop as part of an educational series sponsored by Kulshan Community Land Trust

Bodhi Creek Farm, near Kendall, WA – design and present a 5-day residential Ecovillage Design Course, a production of my Village Design Institute (VDI)

Training of the Trainers, Gaia Education; Galgafarm, Hungary – present two modules of the EDE to the curriculum design team

Permaculture Guild; Santa Barbara, CA – present Ecovillage Design slide- Show at Sola House

Eco-Bell; Bellingham, WA – co-teach a 3-day weekend Urban Design Workshop

Sahale Retreat Center; Hood Canal, WA – co-teach a 2-week certified residential Permaculture Design Course, sponsored by Friends of the Trees Society

Pragtri Farm, near Arlington, WA – design and present a 5-day residential Ecovillage Design Course, the Graduate Design Project for my M.A. degree; sponsored by my Village Design Institute

Happy Valley, Bellingham, WA – coordinate a Group Independent Study Project: “A Pattern Language for Ecovillages”

Northwest Herbal Faire, near Van Zandt, WA – present two workshops: “Introduction to Organic Astrology” and “Rebirthing”

Fairhaven College, WWU; Bellingham, WA – design and present a 3-credit, 300 level class: “Ecovillage Design”

Applied Human Ecology class; Fairhaven College, WWU; Bellingham, WA – called in as guest presenter with Honoraria on five separate occasions over the next few years

Moulin du Bonheur Ecological Design School; La Rochelle, France – present “Introduction to Organic Astrology”

Fairhaven College, WWU; Bellingham, WA – conceive and facilitate a Group Independent Study: “Group Manifestation”

Applied Human Ecology class; Fairhaven College, WWU; Bellingham, WA – co-facilitate and co-design this class for three consecutive quarters

Present – Humanity First Worldwide; Bothell, WA – consultant/designer drawing site plans for Urban Villages, writing educational and promotional materials, and interfacing with city government

Present – Gaia Education, Global Ecovillage Network – designated Curriculum Coordinator in production of EDE; position has now evolved into Program Development Coordinator, preparing for next phase of growth

Present – Village Design Institute; Seattle, WA – President of educational nonprofit promoting sustainability at village-scale

Present – Paradise Designs; Bellingham, WA – principal designer creating Sacred Spaces

Community Cultural Project; Tonasket, WA – served on Board of  Directors and as Building Manager converting an old auto dealership into a thriving Community Center

Filaree Farm; Okanogan, WA – experienced a full season on a specialty garlic farm: harvesting, drying, cleaning, packaging, and planting

World Peace Emerging, an E-Journal – featured in the Nov. 2006 edition on Visionary Leadership, available at  www.worldpeaceemerging.com/articles/publish/article_102.php

“Gaia Education Design for Sustainability” – editor for a virtual education offered by the Open University of Catalunya; Barcelona, Spain; see www.selba.org/GEDSEng/Taster/Taster.html

“An Historical Survey of Urban Density as a Consequence of Energy Regime: Descent into the Urban Village” – paper published in the Ecocity Summit 2008 Conference proceedings

“Geese In-formation”: newsletter for Gaia Education, posted at www.gaiaeducation.org

“Ecovillage Design Education;” curriculum for Gaia Education – endorsed by UNITAR as an official contribution to the DESD - 2005-2014; posted at www.gaiaeducation.org

“Geese In-formation”: newsletter for Gaia Education, posted at www.gaiaeducation.org

Report from Gaia Education meeting, posted at www.gaia.org

“Designing My Own Education for the Ecovillage Millennium,” an article published in Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living, Issue #108

“Village Design: Ekistics for the 21^st Century,” a portfolio purchased by River Oaks Properties; Bellingham, WA

Present – Member International Network of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism – sister organization to the Prince’s Foundation of the Built Environment, London

• General Systems Theory as a Conceptual Tool for Ecovillage Designers

• The Ecovillage as a Living Cell

• Ecovillages as Living Systems: Reviewing and Renewing Organic Settlement Patterning

• A Preliminary Outline for “A Pattern Language for Ecovillages”

• Towards an Epistemology for the Ecovillage Designer

• Ecovillage Economics: Advocating a Human Scale

• The Economics of Sustainable Leisure

• Classic Egyptian Settlement Patterns: An Ekistic Evaluation

• Classic Maya Settlement Patterns

• Sustainable Settlement Energetics: EMergy and Ecovillage

• Sustainable Cities: An Oxymoron?

• Neogenesis: An Autobiography of Sorts

• Apocalypse: Prelude to Enlightenment

• Jungian Typology as an Archetypal Structural Model

• The Quadripartite Circle: A Model of Archetypal Structural Organization

• The TAO of Manifestation

• Home!

• Entropy

• Grounding

• Deep Ecology

• The Five Kingdoms of Life

• Maximizing Potential

• Lament of a Nature Writer

• Comparative Analysis of Radical vs. Incremental Change

• What Exactly is a “Pattern Language?”

• The Urban Village: Synergy of Ecology and Urbanism

• Theoretical Framework for the “Ecovillage Design Education”

• Current Issues in Three Social Research Traditions

• Sustainable Food Systems for the 21^st Century

• Sustainable Communities: Solutions for a Changing World

• Towards a Sustainable Community Design and Development: A Primer for the American Developer

• What Exactly is a Sustainable Community?

• The Evolution of an Ecovillage Potential

• An Historical Survey of Urban Density as a Consequence of Energy Regime: Descent into the Urban Village

• What Exactly is Design?

• Stages in the Ecovillage Design Process: A Cumulative and Ongoing Conversation between the Land and an Inquiring Group of Inhabitors