The Author

My name is Dave Douglas. I’ve spent my career in high tech, with the addition of a serious focus on sustainability starting around 2005. My most recent positions at Sun (prior to the acquisition by Oracle) were Chief Sustainability Officer and Sr. Vice President of Cloud Computing, where I oversaw all of Sun’s cloud computing efforts, as well as NetBeans and OpenOffice.

In the fall of 2009 Greg Papadopoulos and I released the book “Citizen Engineer”, our first attempt to capture the core knowledge sustainability and intellectual property that engineers will need in this new century. We are currently working on updates as well as ways to integrate this into the curriculum at a number of major universities. We both regularly talk at schools and welcome invitations to spread the word.

I’m currently assisting some startups and talking to a wide range of companies, and doing some writing and research on the intersection of sustainability and innovation. I’m on the board of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), and a Sr. Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute.

I live in Concord, MA with my family. As you can tell from my site, I’m pretty much of a geek with a passion for sports, especially when my kids are involved.

You can reach me at ‘dd’ at this domain.