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DAVID A. BAINBRIDGE

Author of 17 books and many book chapters and more than 300 articles, primarily on sustainable management. His essays and articles have appeared in a wide range of publications including the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Solar Age, Solar Today, Fine Homebuilding, Alternative Sources of Energy, Mother Earth News, Restoration Ecology, Gardens for All, Classic Boat, Acres USA, Leadership Excellence, and the Real World Economic Review.

I have always enjoyed being a pioneer (first state workshop on environmental impact analysis (1972), consultant enabling the first modern solar subdivision (1976), first steel tank water wall passive solar home (1978), first quantitative land capability analysis report, USGS (1979), first passive solar tax credit for California (1978), contributor to the first passive solar handbook for California (1980), first straw bale workshop (1989), coauthor of the first book on sustainable agriculture for California (1991), editor of the first report on climate change impacts in Mexico (1991), first desert restoration workshop for the Society for Ecological Restoration (1993), first book on straw bale construction (1994), first national park guide to desert restoration (1995), contributor to the first book on agroforestry in California (1989) and the US (1997), first international conference on ecocomposites (2001), speaker at the first US Society of Ecological Economics Conference (2002), first International Solar Energy Society passive solar reference guidebook (2009), and co-organizer of the first North American conference on environmental and sustainability management accounting EMAN (2010). I hope to stay on the frontier... there is still much to be done and much to be learned.

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AWARDS: Channel 10 Award for Leadership. 2009. Marshall Goldsmith Award for Scholarship. 2008. Passive Solar Pioneer. American Solar Energy Association, 2004. World’s Top 40 Socially Conscious Designers. International Design Magazine, 2001.