Advisory Board

Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D.
DONALD AITKEN ASSOCIATES
Consulting Scientist

Ed Begley, Jr.
Actor / Environmental Advocate

Steve Bornstein
Consultant

Christopher Flavin, President
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE

Jean A. Gardner, Director
EARTH GROUP

Sara Nichols
Environmental Attorney

Walter Scott Perry, Architect
S E ARCH

William Roley, Ph.D., Director
PERMACULTURE INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Michael Rotondi FAIA
ROTO ARCHITECTS, INC.

Steven J Strong, President
SOLAR DESIGN ASSOCIATES

Mary Tucker
Environmental Services Specialist
CITY OF SAN JOSE

Robert Wilkinson
Lecturer, Environmental Studies
UC SANTA BARBARA
DONALD BREN SCHOOL

Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D.
donaldaitken@earthlink.net
DONALD AITKEN ASSOCIATES

Dr. Aitken is an internationally renowned consultant and speaker on renewable energy applications, policy and sustainable architecture. He has been a staff research physicist at Stanford University, Chairman of the Department of Environmental Studies at San Jose State University, and an Affiliate Faculty Member at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

Dr. Aitken has designed award winning energy efficient and solar buildings, and teaches professional workshops for architects on energy efficient design, solar energy residential design, and daylighting design of commercial buildings. He is preparing material for a book on Frank Lloyd Wright's contribution to daylighting in architecture.

Dr. Aitken has twice served as national Chairman of the American Solar Energy Society and has twice directed the national solar energy conferences. He has been Executive Director of the Western Regional Solar Energy Center for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

In 1991, Dr. Aitken joined the Energy Department of the Union of Concerned Scientists as Senior Staff Scientist carrying on his earlier DOE policy work in energy efficiency and renewable energy technology and economics with a current emphasis on the use of renewable energy in the electric utility sector.

He has over 100 publications in these various fields.

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