Jim Fournier - Has worked as an industrial designer, entrepreneur, software developer, systems analyst and industrial ecologist. For the last several years he has focused on initiatives to create new Internet software and identity protocols to better inter-connect a global network of people and organizations who share ecological and social justice values. He is currently involved with founding Eprida, a startup company which offers a fundamental technology breakthrough for reversing climate change by producing sustainable energy and a restorative high-carbon fertilizer for biomass and coal.

At twenty three he founded his first company, JLF Designs, which rapidly grew into a premier line of international high-design consumer products, selling in the finest stores throughout the world in the 1980's and winning numerous design awards, including Accent, ID, IDSA and Axis in Japan. His product design work, and love of geometry, led him into computer aided design, then modeling and animation, and ultimately to developing 3D modeling software as a geometry partner with Silicon Graphics in the early 90's. Before retiring from the business world in 1995 to focus full time on global sustainability and the evolution of consciousness, Fournier also served as the ecology editor for the Industrial Design Society of America where he was an early advocate of industrial ecology.

In addition to Eprida, he is currently working on his doctoral dissertation re-framing the evolution of technology in the context of biological evolution, entitled Meta-Nature. Fournier did undergraduate work in architecture, physics and chemistry at Bennington College and went on to study architecture at MIT. He currently serves on the board of Planetwork, Channel G and the Parapsychology Research Group, and on the advisory boards of numerous organizations including, Highfield Foundation, Meru Foundation, Buckminster Fuller Institute, Peoples World, ManyOne Networks and SF Greenmaps.

URL's:

eprida.com
planetwork.net