Educated at the University of Oregon, Columbia University Graduate School of Design, and the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained an Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Architecture and Education.  Author of 6 books on architecture, nature and ecology with a 7th book, a graduate university textbook, currently being written. Featured on global television programs such as National Geographic, Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, the History Channel, MTV, CNN, PBS, the BBC, HGTV, CCTV China, EuroTV, and others; Special Foreign Professor of Architecture at Harbin University Institute of Technology and Scholar at Beijing University, both at the Shenzhen, China, graduate campus; Senior Lecturer in the Sustainability department at UC Berkeley, with design offices in Berkeley, California and Shenzhen, China.