Thomas McKeag

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Is The World Ready For Your Innovation?
Our current retail system is set up to sell new products, which are used and then disposed of – very much a linear (and inefficient) process. The Closed Loop system implies that once products are used they can be reconditioned and brought back into the sales loop
Europe`s future depends on cities resilient to climate change
Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. Most of Europe's wealth is generated in cities, and urban areas are particularly at risk due to climate change.
Microsoft Taxes Itself - Will it be enough to drive change?
This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates. Microsoft is charging every division and data center for the carbon emissions they generate. Will it be enough to drive change?
Life Cycle Approaches Key to Canada's Competitivenes
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy today released a new report that identifies the need for Life Cycle Approaches in environmental and economic decision-making by companies and government.
Clean mining association launched
A new industry association has been launched aimed at supporting and advocating technological advancements to make the mining industry cleaner and more environmentally responsible.

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.