Projects
About Lonny
I love working with awesome people to make great things happen.
My international experience includes teaching at Universities in Mexico, Spain, Dominican Republic, and India, as well as founding a summer abroad, full immersion programs in resilient community technologies.
As a teacher, I have a passion to foster creativity, deepen analytic abilities, increase competence, strengthen connections, and generally broaden knowledge in students primarily by working on real projects, with real clients, that ameliorate existing conditions by leveraging local knowledge, wealth and labor through transparency and stakeholder participation. Ultimately, I want the synthesis of the experience to engender a strong, and accurate, sense of competence and integrity in students, so that they can go on to accomplish their own goals.
In my classroom, I try to foster a sense of openness through humor, fallibility, and modeling positive actions to critical feedback. Together, the students and I continue to improve the curriculum by collaboratively developing and evolving our course. As part of honoring the value that each of us bring, and celebrating that diverse teams are necessary to tackle the problems facing the world, we engage many styles that allow students of various needs, skills, and ways of being to thrive.
I focus on building resilience in communities, organizations and individuals by leveraging our own resources to meet our own needs. I do this through education, design, facilitation, and implementation—with projects like Waterpod and Swale (a floating food barge in New York).
I love getting to present on any and all of these things!
Projects: rainwater; greywater; earthen construction; participatory design; local entrepreneurship; manufacturing; appropriate technologies; renewable energy; off-grid systems; energy storage; solar electric micro-grids; solar hot water; social entrepreneurship; and many more.