Dr. John Todd and Living Machines
EnviroEducation.com Interview with Dr. John Todd: Professional & Academic Perspectives of Ecological Design.
Dr. John Todd Dr. John Todd is an internationally-recognized biologist and a visionary leader in the field of ecological design who was named a
"Hero of the Earth" by Time magazine in 1999 and one of the 20th Century's top thirty-five inventors by the Lemelson-MIT Program for Invention and Innovation. He holds four patents and is the inventor of Living Machines, or ecological engines, for the treatment of wastes, production of foods, generation of fuels and the restoration of damaged aquatic environments. He recently won the first annual
Buckminster Fuller Challenge with his proposal -- Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia. Author of over two hundred technical and popular articles on biology and planetary stewardship, Dr. Todd is the Founder and President of
Ocean Arks International, a non profit research and education organization; co-founded
Living Technologies Inc., an ecological design, engineering, and construction firm in Burlington, Vermont; and a Research Professor in the
University of Vermont's Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources.
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