Location
Essen Germany, Cairo Egypt, Los Angeles and Windsor California, Dobbs Ferry New York, depending on the time of year.

Bio
T.H. Culhane is founder and co-director of Solar CITIES, "Connecting Community Catalysts Integrating Technologies for Industrial Ecology Systems" -- an international NGO that is involved with 'green collar' vocational training and the building of local solar hot water and urban rooftop biogas solutions from recycled materials in slum and informal communities. T.H. studied Biological Anthropology at Harvard and conducted research over many years in Indonesian Borneo, Sumatera and Java, Guatemala, Mexico, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt into ways of integrating rainforest ecology principles of interspecific symbiotic associations into urban planning. He earned a Masters Degree in Regional and International Development from UCLA in 2000 and is finishing a Ph.D. in Environmental Analysis and Policy there while continuing to bring communities together through the U.S. State Department sponsored Musical Goodwill Ambassador Program and U.S. AID small infrastructure grants where a festival atmosphere is used to build relationships between stakeholders and then serious development work can occur.