Biography 2

my background...5th generation native of southwestern colorado, montrose high school graduate(class of 1964) in physics/advanced mathematics (Univ of Colo Boulder), Architecture (U.C. Berkeley), creative writing (UCLA), founder: news department KUBC (at age 17...1964), news director of 4 other public radio station news departments, founder of: Telluride Writer's Guild, Telluride Bluegrass Academy, Telluride Bluegrass Festival Workshop Series, Origins Foundations, Smart Shelter Network...photographic background with U.S. Navy/ Vietnam and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (part of the Ames Research/NASA team that did the heat of reentry studies for the Mariner Space Module...Palo Alto...photo processing of the 1971 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 (at the expense of a huge tax-payer deficit) and coordinating the state's first democratically administered master plan for the Placer Valley Corridor in conjunction with San Miguel County's first professional planner (Mark Freuhiger)( a master plan which remains in tact today, 30 years later), sat as architectural consultant to Telluride Historic and Architectural Review Commission, a career professional builder/ designer (35 years)(including the first restoration of the historic Sheridan Opera House), lead technical cabinetry designer and master cabinetmaker for Fort Hill Construction (Hollywood)(including projects for Dustin Hoffman, Madonna, Bruce Springstein, Rita Moreno, Steven Spielberg and the Chairman of the Board for Time/Warner...Warner Brothers Pictures).... and has undergone a total disability due to the chemical allergies/immune system damages of working with the toxic ingredients in conventional building construction and cabinetry (now widely recognized by many as an occupational hazard in the conventional building industry), instructor in Natural & Green Building (Mesa State College...1996-97), teaching faculty in progressive building technology International Congress of Building Officials, consultant and lecturer on professional natural building systems for: The Colorado State Association of Certified Loan Closers, The Colorado Board of Realtors, Colorado State Association of Real Estate Appraisers and various regional associations for building inspectors....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 year touring as singer/songwriter(1980-1987) (performances throughout the southwest including Mesa Verde and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival Stage..1988 and the Sheridan Opera House, Telluride 2003)..currently performing one concert per year in open air settings in selected pristine locales in this beautiful land....in conjunction with the Smart Shelter E.I. Land Steward Program.

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, referencing in Daniel 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 Transcendent 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)

Current and Past Research...at last count...Smart Shelter Site hosted 186 research projects in progress in the fields of native lifestyle and natural building including surge/gravity irrigation, native landscaping, permascaping, edible native species, native resin lacquers, native resourced paints, passive cooling, passive solar heating design, micro habitats (mobile living environments under 150 sq ft), affordable housing, negative emissions site design, water catchment, solar incineration composting toilet technology, artificial trees, electro-magnetic field remediation, on-site recycling, bio-remediation of toxics, off-grid electrical energy supplies (without wind or solar panels), environmental illness diagnosis and treatment, glassless winter solar sunspaces, water wicking summer cooling structures, the Helena Madrigal Nautilus Heating Unit (which burns different fuels and circulates fresh/ humidified and filtered air automatically any time its on), recipes for locally native species based body care products (deodorants, salves, lotions). and non-chemical lawn fertilizers and invasive species control strategies (without toxic herbicides and pesticides)...as well as a regional campaign to curtail the use of synthetic petrochemical fragrances. Currently many of these technologies are being extended into pilot study applications for damaged public lands.

Funding...funding for the Smart Shelter Network comes from a variety of sources public and private including the Raynier Foundation of Seattle (which also underwrites the Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue Center, Telluride Jazz and Mountain Film Festivals, Santa Fe Jazz Festival and the Seattle Performing Arts Series), public foundation grants for specific projects (Whole Life Network, Western Slope Environmental Resource Council, High Country Citizens Alliance, State of Colorado and the South Coast Permaculture Guild, International Congress of Business Officials, Rotary International) as well as annual stipends for long-term intern residency programs(Smart Shelter typically supports 4 ongoing residency students at any particular time in various fields of private and professional study) and small private supporter donations.