Biography #1

Gary Duncan...background...5th generation native of Western Colorado, Montrose (Colorado) High School Graduate(1964), academic background : physics/advanced mathmatics (Univ of Colorado-Boulder), architecture (U.C. Berkely), creative writing (UCLA), founder: news department KUBC (at age 17...1964), Telluride Writer's Guild, Telluride Bluegrass Academy, Telluride Bluegrass Festival Workshop Series, Origins Foundation, Smart Shelter Network...photographic background with U.S. Navy/ Vietnam and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (heat of reentry studies for the Mariner Space Module...Palo Alto...photo processing of the 1971 manned space program moon walk), teacher of photography (Montrose Community College...predecessor to Mesa State), as President of the Placervalley Association was responsible for stopping the Bureau of Reclamation Dam Project that would have flooded the Placerville/San Miguel Valley to the edge of Sawpit, architectural consultant to Telluride Historic and Architectural Review Commission, career professional builder/ designer (35 years) and has undergone a total disability due to the chemical allergies/immune system damages of working with the toxic ingredients in conventional building construction (now widely recognized by many as an occupational hazard), instructor in Natural & Green Building (Mesa State College...1996-97), teaching faculty in progressive building technology International Congress of Building Officials, award nominee for prescident work with Smart Shelter Network by the Wirth Chair (University of Denver) and the British Government Council on Affordable Housing World Awards Competition, guest lecturer/ workshop instructor and co-founder Natural Building Network for coastal California...sponsored by California South Coast Permaculture Guild, 6 years touring as singer/songwriter (performances throughout the southwest including Mesa Verde and the Telluride BlueGrass Festival Stage..1988 and the Sheridan Opera House, Telluride 2003)..currently performs one concert per year in regional open air settings.

Publications: 5 Seeds on a Changing Wind (Telluride Writer's Guild...Poetry..1981), several hundred newspaper/magazine/journal articles on natural building regionally, 20 public radio interview series, referenced in Danial Chiras' Natural Homes (University of Colorado), approximately 50 workshop/lectures/demonstrations throughout the southwest...many available on video. Many of these technical texts on native lifestyle and natural building are currently being published on the Smart Shelter WebSite Resource files at www.Smartshelter.com. including: The E.I.Standard ...a treatise on environmental illness, Systems of Transcendant Governance, Natural Homes #101..the introductory course video and text on natural building, Regional Signature Natural Building Architecture (how to do solar strawbale/adobe hybrid design right the first time)...and a tongue-in-cheek series of off the wall poetry and short stories called The Gonzo Literati (also published on the Smart Shelter Website in part)