John Douglas Archer
Ecoagriculturalist & Certified Permaculture Designer, Technician, and Visionary Teacher. My permaculture design is based on 15 years experience in all aspects of horticulture as well as ecology, botany, & sustainable agriculture.
| Headline: | Educator |
| Work status: | Living The Dream |
| Website: | http://www.linkedin.com/in/johndouglasarcher |
| Industries: | Education, Financial, Lifestyle |
| Skills: | Architecture, Business, Copy Writing, Design, Editing, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Fiction, Guerrilla marketing, Languages, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Product design, Public Relations, Public speaking, Recruitment, Sales, Viral marketing, Writing |
| Next step: | Deriving funding for either graduate school research or its equilvalent outside of academia.
Receiving tips and mentoring on what quantitative approaches serve my interests best. See Tags section for these interests. |
| Location: | Kyoto, Japan |
| Visas: | Japan, United States of America |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Career advice, Consulting opportunities, Employment opportunities, Finding business partners, Finding mentors, Finding team mates, Helping friends, Helping members of my groups, Joining a startup, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Receiving feedback, Trading services |
| Tags: | abundance, biomimicry, consulting, ecoagriculture, ecological economics, ecology, Economics, emergy, ephemeral, food forest, intuitive, learning organization, mathematics, open space technology, parkour, perennial, permaculture, quantitative, raw, resilience, resources, scarcity, sustainability, systems thinking, tantra, transition, transition town |
| Schools: | Prescott College |
FULL BIO
With the past 15 years of experience in actively managing living nutrient cycles, I embark on expanding this work beyond conventional horticulture and sustainable agriculture to integrate business strategies, market-based solutions, and mathematical economic analysis for sustainability and community resilience.
To this end, I am presently training academically in mathematical modeling, resource economics, ecological economics, and resilience science. At the same time, I work with stakeholders to help them develop strategy, mission, vision, and markets for our transition into a more equitable, low-energy, convivial modern world.
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Dark Horse City Gardens |
| Position: | Owner/operator |
| Time period: | January 2009 - September 2009 |
| Description: | Owner/operator of Tucson’s first multi-plot intensive urban farming business |
| Employer: | Desert Survivors Native Plant Nursery |
| Position: | Plant propagator |
| Time period: | January 2008 - December 2008 |
| Description: | Plant propagator, all-around nursery sales and help. |
| Employer: | APS Palo Verde–North Gila Transmission Project |
| Position: | Field Biologist |
| Time period: | January 2006 - December 2006 |
| Description: | Supervisory biologist on excavation project under transmission lines running from Phoenix to San Diego.
Transects and excavation ran west from Gila Bend to Yuma. Crews of nine men. Desert tortoise habitat. |
| Employer: | Flora of Missouri Project |
| Position: | Botanical Researcher & Assistant to Director |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2002 |
| Description: | Authored floristic treatments, helped curate all Missouri collections, examined and entered specimens into statewide database, facilitated visiting scientists. |
| Employer: | Skip Kincaid & Associates |
| Position: | Urban Forestry Technician |
| Time period: | January 1999 - December 2000 |
| Description: | Collected arboricultural field data in numerics and over gradients for Saint Louis street tree assessment. My section of the survey covered one-third of the wards in the City of Saint Louis. |
| Employer: | JC Raulston Arboretum |
| Position: | Plant Records Assistant |
| Time period: | January 1998 - December 1999 |
| Description: | Assisted in systematically mapping and recording over 5000 taxa of plants in an 8-acre working research and teaching garden focused on the evaluation, selection and display of new ornamental plant introductions. |
| Employer: | Longwood Gardens |
| Position: | Work experience |
| Time period: | January 1996 - December 1998 |
| Description: | Worked on a rotational basis in all aspects of horticulture in this 380+acre display garden. Gained comprehensive, working knowledge of commercial plant propagation and growing techniques, large-scale, seasonal display installation and maintenance, integrated pest management (obtained Applicator’s license), identification, etc. |
| Employer: | Tait Farm |
| Position: | Farm Hand |
| Time period: | January 1995 - December 1996 |
| Description: | Planting, pruning, and care on 25-acre Christmas tree farm and 18-acre low-spray apple orchard. Operated tractors, skid steer, and Vermeer tree spade. Before attending Longwood Gardens, I was offered Farm Operations Manager position. |
| Employer: | Twin Oaks Nursery |
| Position: | Nursery Manager, Landscape Crew Leader |
| Time period: | January 1995 - December 1996 |
| Description: | Operated all tractors, dump trucks, tree spades, greenhouse controls, chainsaws and other nursery/landscape equipment. Installed and repaired nursery irrigation systems. |
EDUCATION
| University: | Prescott College |
| Time period: | 2007 - 2008 |
| Degree: | Business for Sustainability, BA |
INFORMATION
| Memberships: | Native Seeds S.E.A.R.C.H.
Sky Island Alliance Center for Biological Diversity Green America Tucson Botanical Garden New American Dream American Go Association KXCI 91.3FM Community Radio |
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The revitalisation of disappearing minority cultures through their sharing of traditional stories, using appropriate new digital media and community-empowering methodologies.
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CarbonTicker.com
Do you find it too hard or time-consuming to reduce your carbon footprint? Your free Carbon Savings Account on CarbonTicker.com will make it easy and worthwhile!
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Caffe Solare
Caffe Solare is a green coffee/tea company commited to giving back to the environment, primarily by eliminating paper waste.
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The reCycle Project
This is an opportunity for large scale companies and enterprises in the energy segment to raise their profile and promote themselves through urban art installations that deal with sustainability and interaction comprehensively for the common citizen.
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Laurel Krause
Publisher of MendoCoastCurrent, tracking wave energy development as well as safe, interesting renewable energy projects around the world. Also searching for truth at Kent State in 2010.
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