John Van Doren is an architect and engineer by training and practiced architecture in California during the early energy crisis days of the 1970's. In the early 1980's he made a career change and spent over two decades leading turnarounds and startups in the manufacturing sector. Burned-out and discouraged by the outsourcing and downsizing of corporate America, he returned to architecture and began writing a handbook on sustainable home design. In the process of writing that “hand more...
