George Elvin is the director of Green Technology Forum, a leading research and advising firm focusing on emerging green technologies for sustainable business. Elvin is also an associate professor at Ball State University, and his books and articles have been published by Wiley, Princeton Architectural Press, and the American Society of Civil Engineers. Elvin is a former Visiting Fellow at the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and the Center for Energy Research, Education and Service.

During high school George Elvin worked for the CIA, not as a spy, but as a kitchen cleanup crew member at their headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Then, as his schoolmates went off to college, Elvin opted for a Zen Buddhist monastery in upstate New York. In his twenties Elvin founded his own design-build firm in Washington, DC, and built everything from residential additions to playground furniture for the pandas at the National Zoo.

With his company well established Elvin sought a degree in architecture, ultimately graduating from UC Berkeley with a PhD. Elvin worked professionally in Germany and Japan, and then accepted a teaching position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As an assistant professor there Elvin taught design and construction and published the first study on wearable computers for the construction industry.

About the time John Wiley & Sons published his first book, Integrated Practice in Architecture, he accepted a position as an associate professor at Ball State University. There he continued to teach design and construction and founded Green Technology Forum, a research and advising firm focusing on emerging technologies for green business.

As the Director of Green Technology Forum Elvin publishes and speaks frequently on a variety of subjects, including green business, alternative energy, biofuels, nanotechnology, biotechnology, green building, and other global technologies, trends and issues. Elvin's goal is to educate and promote understanding of the emerging green technologies and environmental issues that are transforming life in the 21st Century.

Sustainability

Meeting the needs of today without sacrificing those of tomorrow; that's what sustainable business, design and manufacturing are all about. Discover the strategies that today's leaders in sustainability are using to make their business practices greener and reduce the burdens of depleted resources and accumulated waste on future generations.

Green Business

Learn the latest strategies that leading businesses worldwide are putting into practice to help the environment and gain customers with greener goods, services and business practices.

Clean Energy

See how solar, wind, hydroelectric energy, biofuels, energy from industrial waste, and the coming age of hydrogen fuel cells are moving up to replace oil, gas and other non-renewable fuels for cleaner, renewable energy and a healthier planet.

Green Marketing

Find out how green marketing giants like BP, GE and Whole Foods are gaining customers with green marketing campaigns that position them as world leaders in the fight to save the planet.

Green Technology

Discover the cutting-edge technologies from solar energy and carbon dioxide scrubbers to green nanotechnology and biofuels that are helping reduce waste, toxins and carbon emissions, and leading the way to a greener world.

Green Building

Learn what today's leading engineers, architects and owners are doing to make tomorrow's buildings healthier, reducing energy consumption and waste while creating the architectural wonders of the 21st Century.

Biotechnology

Discover the world of biotechnology, where hybrid materials blur the boundaries between flora, fauna and fabricated, and whole industries from energy and plastics to food and medicine are being transformed.

Nanotechnology

Find out how the science of the small is becoming big business in everything from energy and electronics to medicine and materials, breaking down the conventions of ordinary physics and transforming life in the 21st Century.