Thomas McKeag
President & Founder, BioDreamMachine, USA
Tom is a licensed landscape architect, community planner and
Adjunct Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at the California
College of the Arts and a Lecturer in the Plant and Microbial
Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley. He has
taught the innovation course "How Would Nature Do That?" to
undergraduate and graduate students since 2006. He has guest
lectured in the schools of architecture and mechanical engineering
at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Schumacher College, the Omega
Institute, and the Universidad Iberoamericana.
He is the President and Founder of BioDreamMachine, a California
nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to teaching K-12
science through bio-inspired design. Tom is an Education Fellow and
member of the Educational Advisory Board of the Biomimicry
Institute. Organizations that he has consulted to include the
Marine Science Institute, HOK architecture firm, and the Center for
Environmental Education, Westchester, NY. He is the
co-founder and editor of the new digital magazine Zygote Quarterly,
and writes a regular blog at www.greenbiz.com.