Every day, I communicate value, informing the public of solutions: practices, technology, and approaches that improve lives. I do this with articles, books, social media posts, and more. Here are some examples of my work.
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Just a few links to articles on the web (see others on my Work/Portfolio page):
- Living La Vida Local in Natural Home Magazine
- Grow with the Flow: Legal Uses of Graywater in Natural Home
- Divining Architecture in The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine
- High-Level Landscapes (Green Roofs in Boston) in The Boston Globe
- Growing Away Wastewater in Landscape Architecture Magazine
- The Walls Are Alive (green walls) in Natural Home Magazine
- Building Green: The Elements of Green Building in Common Ground Magazine (download)
- Raindrops Keep Falling in Natural Home Magazine (here’s the sidebar on how to make a rainbarrel)
- Source Separation: The Ultimate Decentralized Wastewater Solution in Onsite Water Treatment Magazine
- How Low Can You Flow? in Natural Home Magazine
- Turn Waterfront Development Challenges Into Sales Features (Chapter 91) (ghostwritten; posted here by permission) in New England Real Estate Journal (download)
I’ve also written for The Boston Globe, Environmental Design & Construction, Landscape Architecture, Natural Home, Encyclopedia of the Environment, Whole Earth Review, Water Connection, MIT Report, The Harvard University Gazette, BioCycle, InBusiness, Building with Nature, Training & Development, Mother Earth News, and World of Biology.
A participatory city visioning project for which I wrote scenarios of a sustainable future: Scenario Project
A state-funded pilot program to organize and inform community members to teach their neighbors how to compost, based on community-based social marketing methods: Neighbor-to-Neighbor Composting Program (N2N)
Other involvements (I created all these Web sites for better or worse):
Develop training courses and produce some communications materials for this engineering firm
Co-organizer of this conference:
Designing Urban & Industrial Watersheds: Ecological Engineering for Integrated Water Management
Conference and Courses: Harvard School of Design, Cambridge, Mass.
Importer and eco-toilet company founder:
Ecovita: Eco-Toilets and Tools for Water-Wise Living
Marketing Communications Director/Project Developer: Ecological Engineering Group
EcoWaters Projects (formerly The Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention–now renamed again in the wake of our domain loss)
Coordinator:
Ecological Designers & Engineers Network (EDEN)
Simple websites I’ve created: all of the above and www.greenfrigatebooks.com, www.maclearinghouse.com
I present worldwide on ecological wastewater recycling options.
Here’s a very old and simple presentation (presented at the integrated bio-systems symposium in Samoa):
Ecological Decentralized Solutions for the Pacific Islands (back up soon)
A past project in Baja California Sur, Mexico
I’m on the board of directors of this affordable housing complex for low-income seniors: Stevenson House.
Some old photos from my last website: L to R: The “Eco-Toilet Team” surveying systems at Havasu Falls near the Grand Canyon (Carol, Jack Erhardt, Sharon Erhardt of A-C-E Builders). Center: A composting toilet workshop team at El Santuario in Baja California Sur, Mexico pose at one of their creations (Carol not in photo). Left: Toppling the dominant wastewater paradigm, Jardin de los Naranjos, Baja, Mexico. I am on the lower left with Scott Schroeder and Amare Pearl.
Odds and ends, mostly historic links I can’t bear to delete:
Green Port/Green Harbor Plan created for New Bedford, Mass. with Davison Bolster
Fish Island: My historic salvage island in New Bedford, Mass.
Flowscapes, the Green Roof Project (this site will be back up soon)
Mentioned in a New York Times op-ed: [click here]
Founder of Ecovita, only supplier of several models of eco-toilets in North America [click]