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Speaker Bio
Dr. John Todd
Dr. JOHN TODD is an internationally recognized biologist and the author of over two hundred technical and popular articles on biology and planetary stewardship. He was Assistant Professor of Ethology at San Diego State University and assistant Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and is now a professor at the University of Vermont.
In 1969 he co-founded the New Alchemy Institute to create a science and practice based upon ecological precepts and was its President until 1981. In 1980, he co-founded Ocean Arks International. He also co-founded Living Technologies Inc., an ecological design, engineering, and construction firm in Burlington, Vermont, and Living Technologies in Findhorn, Scotland. He sits on a number of environmental and technical boards.
Dr. Todd is a leader in the field of ecological design. He has described his work in a series of books: The Village as Solar Ecology (1980), Tomorrow is Our Permanent Address. (1980), Reinhabiting Cities & Towns: Designing for Sustainability (1981) and Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design. (1984). This last has been revised and published as From Eco-cities to Living Machines (1994).
Dr. Todd has received numerous accolades for his work. Most recently he was profiled in Inventing Modern America, a publication of the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation, which features the development of his signature ecological waste treatment systems.
He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Green Mountain College in 2000 and received the Bioneers Lifetime Achievement Award two years previous. Also in 1998, he and Nancy Jack Todd together received the Lindbergh Award in recognition of their work in technology and the environment.
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