I’ve spent my career working across sustainability, GIS, agriculture, education, technology, and digital systems. Looking back, the common thread has been a fascination with how complex systems work—and how they can be designed to be more resilient, regenerative, and human-centered.
While in college, a friend and I helped create a network of unique schools that shared ideas, projects, and even student exchanges. Through that effort, we visited permaculture farms, ecological builders, community development projects, the Rocky Mountain Institute, The Land Institute, farmers experimenting with new approaches, musicians, professors, and people working to reclaim landscapes damaged by mining and industrial activity.
What excited me most was not any single discipline. It was the opportunity to connect people and ideas that might not otherwise cross paths.
Over several years we organized conferences at schools across the country, bringing together people who believed that sharing knowledge and learning from one another could help create a better future. Those experiences taught me that meaningful innovation often happens at the intersections—between disciplines, communities, and ways of thinking.
My career has not followed a straight line. I’ve worked in sustainability, mapping and GIS, agriculture, vineyard operations, education, technology, digital marketing, and systems design. Along the way I’ve been drawn equally to new innovations and to traditional practices that have stood the test of time. Both have something to teach us.
We live in an interconnected world where small decisions can have surprisingly large impacts when adopted by enough people. I’ve come to believe that sharing information, ideas, and experiences helps all of us improve. When one person learns, experiments, and shares what worked—or what didn’t—the entire community benefits.
I’m also a father of three. Becoming a parent changed my perspective on time, responsibility, and what matters. As I’ve grown older, my view of the world has expanded, but my attention has often become more local. Instead of attending every conference or chasing every opportunity, I might spend a Saturday helping a friend plant cover crops with a new seed drill, troubleshooting a water system, or working on a project close to home.
In some ways, that has narrowed my network. In other ways, it has deepened it.
This site is an effort to reconnect with a broader community of curious, thoughtful people who care about systems, sustainability, technology, stewardship, education, and the future of the places we live.
You’ll find reflections, field notes, project ideas, lessons learned, and occasional experiments. My hope is that these writings spark conversations, create connections, and contribute—however modestly—to making our communities and our world a little better.
Welcome.